IDA & AGC Seek Second Round Views on Proposed Spam Control Bill for Singapore The proposed Spam Control Bill includes, in addition to email spam, legal measures to manage mobile spam in Singapore. The Bill also proposes that anyone who suffers damages or loss arising from spam be given the right to initiate legal action […]
Category: Antispam
SPAM against SPAM
Microsoft-bashing has always being a favourite pastime for many geeks so I wasn’t surprised when I got anti-Microsoft spam in my inbox. Whats was surprising was that it was send by a group called SPAMIS – Strategic Partnership Against Microsoft Illegal Spam. Sorry, when you fight spam with spam, you lost all your creditability – […]
OCED Toolkit
OCED has been talking about a Antispam “toolkit” since last year. Incidently, the “toolkit” isn’t what an engineer would normally expect: it is really more of a ‘guide’ on Antispam for regulators. After waiting for nearly half a year, I got an email from Suresh (from Outblaze) that the OCED Antispam Toolkit is finally ready.
DBS Phishing
There is a DBS phishing spam targeted at Singaporean mailboxes. You probably get something that look like this too: Do not be fool by it. Look at the raw email and you will find that it actually comes from hostpymes.com, registered to someone called Soria, Luis based in Peru. Already as early as last year, […]
The Way Forward for Anti-Spam
I am now at MCMC for a discussion on Anti-Spam Strategies – The way forward for ASEAN Telecommunications Regulators’ Council (ATRC). Lots of people are here: OCED, ITU, FTC, various regulators from the region and also industry. But I think this is a close-door event so I couldn’t blog much what was discussed here. Anyway, […]
More on Weird Spam
William posted one very interesting spam : Spam in ASCII art! ps: William is one of the two rare programmers I come across in my entire carrer.
Werid spam
Spam – everyone has it and we all know what it does. Porn spam are down and phishing, 411 and chinese marketers are the norm these days. But I am scratching my head what kind of spam is this. Hello, My daughter is interested in learning the Punjabi Drum,piano as mentioned by you and I […]
Solution to Trackback Spams
Several MT users has emailed me to write a Captcha solution to the latest trackback spams problem. Unfortunately, Captcha cannot be easily integrated with trackback. In fact, trackback spams are harder to catch because both legit and spams trackback are normally send by machines so any tools that tries to differentiate human from machine will […]
More casino comment spams
I got more of these casino comments spam in the last 3 hours. This time the tactic is a bit different – using a bug in my Drupal for Bloggers where I forgot to check for empty captcha to get their comment spam through. Like the last time, it comes from different IP addresses and […]
It is spam if i dont like it
The latest news going around is Microsoft is spamming. What’s the hell is going on? I mean they are suppose to be the ‘Good Guy’ in antispam? Apparently, the whole thing started because Bob Poortinga posting to SPAM-L which then get proprogated into places like Interesting-People. Normally, such silliness will end but somehow a Washington […]