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  • Blacklists & Recycling the Internet's Garbage

    Internet blacklists, or the more politically correct term, "block lists," have been around since the 90s. We all use them, invariably without knowing. Most are DNSBLs (anti-spam DNS blacklists) or URIBLs (domain blacklists) used b...
  • Are you a Conficker Zombie?

    With the advent of Conficker and to avoid becoming one of the estimated now 20 million or so zombie recruits of the botnet armies requires ongoing awareness. At least we need to be personally alert, to make it difficult for the cyber c...
  • Conficker; A Bounty Hunter’s Guide

    You know things are serious when Microsoft Corp. ponies up a $250,000 bounty. The software vendor is offering the cash in exchange for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the Conficker worm creator(s).   It's p...
  • Internet Suffers Attack of the Clones

      Coming to a PC near you very soon is an innovative and possibly deadly combination of well known exploitation techniques, emerging from the Dark Side of the Internet. What makes this new attack so innovative are the targets: Interne...
  • Cloning Security

    Coming to a PC near you very soon is an innovative and possibly deadly combination of well known exploitation techniques, emerging from the dark side of the Internet. What makes this new attack so innovative are the targets: Inter...
  • It's Time to Attack Spam Domain Registrars

      In the ongoing war against spam, there are two battle fronts. The first involves taking down command-and-control centers for spam and related botnets. As seen with the downing of Atrivo and, even more importantly, McColo in late 200...

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