Palinurus – A Helm chart conversion tool
...apps/v1 kind: Deployment metadata: name: nginx labels: app: nginx spec: replicas: 1 selector: matchLabels: app: nginx template: metadata: labels: app: nginx spec: containers: - name: nginx image: nginx:1.7.9 ports: -...
Botnet Spam Rankings: Holding Steady
I read with interest Terry Zink’s latest blog post concerning the distribution of botnets since the Rustock botnet was taken down some time ago. According to Terry, specific countries play...
Botnet Spam Traffic Spike on May 25
...spate of recent botnet takedowns have severely damaged or completely destroyed these networks, forcing botnet operators to start from scratch. As the botnet operators regroup, we can expect to see...
Post #5 on Why Spam Filters Suck "trickle blog" series
Why Are Botnets So Difficult To Stop? Definition: a "botnet" is commonly known as a network of infected computers used to send spam (among other actions). The largest botnets contain...
How Canada’s Telecom Regulator Fights Phishing and Spam
...them block botnet 724, then that’s all they can block is botnet 724. If I say block something with the characteristics of 7. 2. 4, you know, then they can...
New Botnets Surpass Storm and Mega-D
According to a report by Marshal Threat Research and Content Engineering (TRACE) team, “Storm” and “Mega-D” are no longer the leading spam botnets. Recent months have shown a shift away...
How Spamhaus will protect the internet from AI-driven spam and phishing
...first saw, you know, significant expansion of open proxy hijacking. And then follow, following very quickly on that, you see the rise of botnet based malware. Andrew: Where hardware gets...
Post #6 on Why Spam Filters Suck "trickle blog" series
Blocking Spam In 2008 Like a shepherd, the duty of a bot herder (botnet operator) is to keep his/her botnet army intact. Bot herders make money by amassing a botnet,...
The Latest Storm Botnet Surprise
The Storm Botnet is infamous for it’s delivery of “pump & dump” stock spam. In the past we’ve seen html, images and even mp3 formats used to bypass filtering. What...
How Botnets Send Spam (In Layman's Terms)
...ISP can scrutinize it and automatically block any spam. In a nutshell, botnets and spam are a real headache, and it’s important to find a solution that keeps your email...
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