Spamhaus ordered to Pay $11.7m for blacklisting

This is big for legitimate email marketer. British spam blocking firm Spamhaus was charged with blacklisting marketing firm e360insight’s e-mails to consumers by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illnois. Spamhaus was ordered to pay $11.7 million in damages to e360insight, Chicago, and its CEO, David Linhardt, reports Dianna Dilworth for DMNews.

The order also stated that Spamhaus is no longer allowed to block, delay, alter or interrupt e360insights’ mailings in any way.

Spamhaus repels DDoS attack

Spamhaus has reported that it has restored its site and services to normal after a distributed denial of service attack rendered the site temporarily inaccessible for several hours on Monday.

The attack was identified to be launched from a botnet of compromised Windows PCs, witnessed a huge surge in spurious traffic to Spamhaus’ web servers from 0900 BST until around 1400 BST.