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A major fuckup on part of spamhaus!

Posted by Ralf Hildebrandt on 4 May 2012 | 0 Comments

A major fuckup on part of spamhaus: http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/query/SBL138067

The evidence section listed "inetnum: 95.218.0.0 - 95.219.255.255", yet spamhaus listed 93.218.0.0/15 (first octet 93 instead of 95)!

Posted by Ralf Hildebrandt on 21 January 2011 | 0 Comments

Recently I found a lot of mailservers to expose this behaviour:

Posted by Ralf Hildebrandt on 8 January 2011 | 0 Comments

Today I received spam from certuspersonality.com, which was sent using Mailman. Given this, there are several possibilities:

Posted by Ralf Hildebrandt on 4 December 2010 | 0 Comments

Tags: spam

Posted by Ralf Hildebrandt on 2 December 2010 | 1 Comments

Don't just translate an english template using Google Translator -- but also have a native speaker correct the result of the translation.
Keep it short, stupid! Nobody likes to read long pamphlets. Real users don't read!
Don't be greedy: Ask for the victims' username & password, and maybe their name, but nothing else. Also, why ask for their name if you sent them mail already?
Know your victims timezone: Send your phish at the end of their working day (5pm)
Add a slight threat, so the victim is motivated to answer

Heed these hints and the sweet passwort will be thine!