Nov
19
October 2016 in Spamtraps: ESPs
ESP mail seen in spamtraps October 2016
Severely late this month, to offset last month’s being well on time… 🙂
Oct
20
KeyUp / Sivona / DSN / Spam-Sauvola
Please find enclosed a few recordings of harassing telephone calls made from +358-41-3633495, the registered telephone number in keyup.fi, Dysnomia Oy. The voice does not belong to “Katariina”, obviously, so it’s “Niklaus”, and even though their Finnish is not native (rather Estonian-influenced), it clearly isn’t spoken by Kenyans either (w.r.t. the registered owners of Dysnomia Oy) or Arabs (w.r.t. Mohammed Sahran, the registered owner of dsn.fi, one of their spamming domains).
Oct
01
September 2016 in Spamtraps: ESPs
ESP mail seen in spamtraps September 2016
On time this month, only four hours after data collection has ended!
The theme of this month’s post is Back to Basics, ou, si vous préférez, La Rentrée. The term has started and the oddities of summer seem to be over. 🙂
Sep
04
August 2016 in Spamtraps: ESPs
ESP mail seen in spamtraps August 2016
The theme of this month’s post is a specific company, unfortunately. The questionable honour goes to SMTP.com, Inc.
Aug
27
Two Blogs on Fallout from Two DDoS Attacks
This week two of my favorite blogs, Mickey Chandler’s Spamtacular and Brian Krebs’ KrebsOnSecurity, have posted unusually informative and thoughtful articles about two spam-related DDoS attacks. One occured three years ago; the other within the past week.
For those who prefer to read comments and kudos AFTER reading the original articles, here are direct links:
- KrebsOnSecurity (8/26/2016): Inside ‘The Attack That Almost Broke the Internet’s
- Spamtacular (8/23/2016): It’s time to consider non-userss
Aug
11
Streamsend: ESP Spams for Its Own Marketing Department
Streamsend, the ESP service of ISP EZ Publishing, is sending bulk email to an email address that hasn’t been live since the 1990s. The email advertises EZ Publishing webhosting and development services.
Aug
03
July 2016 in Spamtraps: ESPs
Jul
19
June 2016 in Spamtraps: ESPs
ESP mail seen in spamtraps June 2016
Long overdue – summer holidays and all that, but here we go.
Jun
21
New Server (Take #2)
The Mainsleaze Blog has moved to yet another new server, this one running CentOS 7. Everything appears to be working properly, including the pages and links that were broken on the first server. Please review the site, attempt to post comments, etc. If nothing breaks for the next 48 hours, I will declare victory and shut down the old server for good. 🙂
Thank you, everybody, for your patience!
Jun
21
Back on the Old Server
The Mainsleaze blog moved to a new server over the weekend. A number of odd bugs ensured. A day’s research and efforts to fix the problems exposed some serious underlying bugs in the most recent version of the underlying operating system on the server. We reverted to the old server til we can get the new server properly debugged or upgrade to a less buggy OS.
Sorry for the delays! 🙂