In addition to notorious commercial spammers like RedEnvelope.Com, it seems that despite the multitude of security vendors that offer solutions to everything from viruses and worms to blended threats and wireless vulnerabilities, such vendors have no problem in joining with the dregs of cyberspace by taking great delight both in spamming folks and ignoring requests to be removed from their marketing rosters. This isn't just about spam, mind you -- for a security vendor, it's blatant hypocrisy!
As such, here are the first two entries in Rick's INFOSEC SpamHouse and the first security vendor-related entries in my spamfilters: GuardedNet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 18:08:05 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Incident Response Best Practices Webinar From: "Vigilar, Inc." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 20 Apr 2005 14:47:28 -0700 Subject: Expand Your IT Security Staff With Managed Security Services From: "Vigilar, Inc." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 26 Apr 2005 16:01:41 -0700 Subject: Webinar: Best Practices for Log Data Management (More pathetic is that the clowns at Vigilar send their HTML-encrusted spam from the vigilarsystems.com domain, which currently has a placeholder from their registrar. How classy. They also refused to remove me from their marketing spam, so I continue to receive their tripe.) As such, I'm interested in compiling a list of INFOSEC firms who either spam folks and/or refuse to remove folks from their marketing lists when requested. Further, if anyone's fallen victim to conference organizers who facilitate this practice by sending speaker (as opposed to attendee) contact information along to vendors for marketing purposes, I'd welcome such reports as well, since doing so only angers speakers and encourages them not to participate in future events. All information will be collected and published at a later date, and all material submitted will be kept anonymous unless specified otherwise by the sender. Thanks for your assistance. Rick -infowarrior.org You are a subscribed member of the infowarrior list. Visit www.infowarrior.org for list information or to unsubscribe. This message may be redistributed freely in its entirety. Any and all copyrights appearing in list messages are maintained by their respective owners.
