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Most Recent PostsA Victory Against Spam
Via The Register comes the news that a group of researchers have managed to take down a botnet responsible for an estimated 1/3 of the world’s spam:
After carefully analyzing the machinations of the massive botnet, alternately known as Mega-D and Ozdok, the FireEye employees last week launched a coordinated blitz on dozens of its command and control channels. The channels were used to send new spamming instructions to the legions of zombie machines that make up the network.
Almost immediately, the spam stopped, according to M86 Security blog. Last year, the email security firm estimated the botnet was the leading source of spam until some of its servers were disabled.
This is undeniably good news—but spam, as always, will manage to make a return.
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