Spamhaus Unblocks Mail from Amazon EC2 – Sort of

October 20th, 2009 by Rebecca Herson | Category: IP Reputation | View Comments

Spammers excel at coming up with new tricks to bypass email filters, and in the last week or so, their latest trick was to distribute their messages via Amazon’s EC2 cloud service.  As a result, according to this article on SearchCloudComputing, the well-known global real-time block list Spamhaus blocked the entire EC2 range, which meant [...]

Spammers launch DDOS attacks against anti-spam organizations.

June 13th, 2007 by Michael Tamir | Category: Email Security | View Comments

SANS Institute reported on Monday, June 11 2007, that several well known anti-spam organizations such as Spamhaus, SURBL (Spam URI Realtime Blocklists) and URIBL (Realtime URI Blacklist) have been targeted in attempt to bring them down. For the full story read PC World article.