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Thursday January 13

Spammers' New Tactic Upends DNS

New spammer techniques are being used to find their way around legal loopholes.

One troublesome technique finding favor with spammers involves sending mass mailings in the middle of the night from a domain that has not yet been registered. After the mailings go out, the spammer registers the domain early the next morning. By doing this, spammers hope to avoid stiff CAN-SPAM fines through minimal exposure and visibility with a given domain. The ruse, they hope, makes them more difficult to find and prosecute.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1749328,00.asp

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