Tag Archives: Spam

BRBL is now available

Posted on 01. Jun, 2009 by admin.

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Today we added the Barracuda Reputation Block List (BRBL – pronounced “bahr-bel”) to our Multi-RBL checking tool. The latter now scans through a total of 52 blacklists.

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RBL blackholes.uceb.org no longer online

Posted on 14. Jul, 2008 by admin.

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Earlier this month the blackhole list blackholes.uceb.org stopped its operations. The reason for this, as announced by the UCEB team, is that their DNS infrastructure has been suffering persistent attacks.

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RBL Criticism

Posted on 11. Feb, 2008 by admin.

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Tip: RBL stands for “Real-time Blackhole List”. For more information, please refer to http://www.anti-abuse.org/dns-blacklists/ Email users who find their messages blocked from mail servers that use DNSBLs often object vociferously, sometimes to the extent of attacking the existence of the lists themselves.

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Phishing: Legal Responses

Posted on 02. Mar, 2007 by admin.

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On January 26, 2004, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission filed the first lawsuit against a suspected phisher. The defendant, a Californian teenager, allegedly created and used a webpage designed to look like the America Online website, so that he could steal credit card information. Other countries have followed the lead of the U.S. by tracing [...]

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