Michael Gracie 

PC World and Yahoo are collaborating on a new series called Web of Crime. The five part series will discuss the big trend in the online world, cybercrime. Follow it over the next few days. And next time you fall victim to a website hack, don’t think it was done by some [...]

I originally created the “Infrastructure In-Fighting” category at Spamroll as a topic center for the fight between various anti-spam technologies jockeying for position. It soon became a nice spot for all the new products and technologies fighting spam.
But now that spammers, hackers (whathaveyou) are fighting amongst themselves, I see new meaning in the term.

Here is a nice blow by blow on the recent life of Chris Smith, a bigtime spammer who was kind of “on the lam” for a while. As the linked article points out clearly, while the guy was supposedly hiding away in the Dominican Republic, he was actually trying to keep his multi-million dollar [...]

CNET recently published a list of the top 10 dot-com flops, and after reading through the list, I could only think the list was contributed to by the folks at Fucked Company. Simply put, nobody seemed to herald any part of the ideas, and I believed some of the companies actually had some merit.
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For those of you bloggers using Movable Type and MT-Blacklist, keep a close eye on your blacklist items as you become immune to bullshit trackback and comment posts. A number of items have crossed my path which come from “google@yahoo.nl” and use the Google URL as its link in.
An obvious attempt to thwart popular [...]

Although have the media outlets on the planet have already reported this, and the other half will report it tomorrow, I thought since Spamroll is NOT a Time Warner asset, I would happily report it as well.
Jason Smathers, the ex-AOL employee that snatched over 90 million AOL usernames and sold them to spammers, has been [...]

All the fear mongering going related to ID theft and internet is taking its toll, as consumers grow more and more wary of having their data in someone else’s hands. More than 60% of online users polled expressed privacy fears. Unfortunately, those same folks remained interested in personalized online experiences. A sure [...]

We have the Slashdotters making some quick comments on Blue Security’s unorthodox anti-spam solution, but I am more interested in the comments on spam solutions in general.
For those not so lucky to have heard about Blue Security, Spamroll already weighed in on their “offering.” But if you want to hear about it from someone [...]

The underground anti-spam crusaders can chase IP addresses and domain names from forged headers all they want, but they are likely going to catch some ghosts, or zombies that is.
MX Logic reports that for the third month in a row, more than 50% of all spam originated from zombie computers. This means that spam [...]

Can you imagine a bunch of Chicago Bears fans sitting at Soldier Field during desperate weather, and giving their bluetooth phone a few whirls just for shits and giggles? No, neither can I.
But over in Finland, that mobile phone crazed land, that is kind of what happened, and it didn’t work out so well. [...]