The Spamhaus Project, an international spam monitoring and tracking organisation, has issued a damning report on the world’s top 10 worst internet service providers (ISPs). The report listed Verizon.com as number 5. Verizon in its news release last 11 August announced that is the “highest-ranked U.S.-based telecommunications company” in ethical ranking based on study by [...]
Verizon.com is world’s fifth worst internet service provider: Spamhaus
February 17, 2010 By 3 Comments
Are Internet Service Providers the key to the world’s fight against spam?
September 25, 2009 By 1 Comment
In its latest compilation of the world’s 10 worst spammers, Spamhaus reported that spam continues to plague the Internet because “a small number of large Internet Service Providers sell service knowingly to professional spammers for profit, or do nothing to prevent spammers operating from their networks.” Although all networks claim to be anti-spam, Spamhaus continued, [...]
Friends’ emails getting trashed to spam folder
June 9, 2009 By Leave a Comment
A friend recently asked why some of his associates’ emails are being trashed to his Spam / Junk folder. Of course he knew his associates as people who would not engage in such illegal activities like sending spams. We did a quick check and noted that Yahoo had been having problems with its anti-spamming filter [...]
100 known spam operations responsible for 80% of spam, world’s Top 10 worst spammers
May 9, 2009 By Leave a Comment
From time to time, we check on the Spamhaus Project on its weekly reports on the world’s ten worst spammers, spam origin by country, and ISPs. According to the Spamhaus Project, 100 known spam operations are responsible for 80% of spam received by internet users in North America and Europe. As at 8 May 2009, [...]
World’s worst spam-originating countries
March 23, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The United States according to the Spamhaus Project is currently number 1 on the list of the Top 10 worst spam originating countries followed by China and Russian Federation. The Spamhaus Project is an international non-profit organization whose mission is “to track the Internet’s spam operations, to provide dependable realtime anti-spam protection for Internet networks, [...]
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