{"id":434,"date":"2006-05-18T21:35:06","date_gmt":"2006-05-18T14:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=434"},"modified":"2006-05-18T21:35:06","modified_gmt":"2006-05-18T14:35:06","slug":"antispam-advocate-succumbs-to-spammer-cnet-newscom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/computer\/spam\/antispam-advocate-succumbs-to-spammer-cnet-newscom\/","title":{"rendered":"Antispam advocate succumbs to spammer &#8211; CNET News.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Antispam+advocate+succumbs+to+spammer\/2100-7349_3-6073625.html?tag=alert\">Antispam advocate succumbs to spammer | CNET News.com<\/a><br \/>\n<em>For more info click on above link<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A prominent crusader against unsolicited e-mail ads withdrew from an escalating cyberwar with spammers on Wednesday after his Web site and numerous others came under a massive retaliatory attack.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Security, a company that provided antispam software and was widely praised for orchestrating a kind of do-it-yourself campaign to spam spammers, has &#8220;ceased all antispam operations,&#8221; said Sandra Fathi, a spokeswoman for the company.<\/p>\n<p>The surrender comes after the company&#8217;s Web site, along with those of many of its partners, were hobbled by a denial-of-service attack earlier this month. The DoS attack, which used thousands of commandeered computers to overload the sites&#8217; servers with traffic, is believed to have originated with one Russia-based spammer, Fathi said.<\/p>\n<p>The brazen show of power by the spammer is reflective of the defiant nature of these kinds of rogue advertisers. Almost as old as the Internet, unsolicited e-mail continues to swamp e-mail in-boxes and to clog servers, even as law enforcement agencies and regulatory bodies have tried to stop the practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antispam advocate succumbs to spammer | CNET News.com For more info click on above link A prominent crusader against unsolicited e-mail ads withdrew from an escalating cyberwar with spammers on Wednesday after his Web site and numerous others came under a massive retaliatory attack. Blue Security, a company that provided antispam software and was widely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scams-and-hoaxes","category-spam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}