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Krebs: Email Bombs Exploit Lax Authentication
In his latest post, Brian Krebs reports on the exploit-of-the-week that's not really an exploit, depending on how you look at it. This ...
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Microsoft Outlook (on Windows) user? Upgrade now!
Brian Krebs posted his usual " Patch Tuesday " update for Fat Tuesday (yesterday, February 13th) and listed in there was a doozy, ...
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Brian Krebs on the new ICANN Registration Data Request Service process
Brian Krebs has a grand writeup on the new ICANN thingy (technical term) meant to help folks standardize requests for access to WHOIS data ...
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TLD .us is still full of bad stuff
This is why we can't have nice things. Brian Krebs reports on research gathered by Infoblox showing a massive malware and phishing opera...
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Spammers and scammers and IP address space, oh my!
IPv4 IP address space is just about used up, as the unused pool of IP addresses waited to be doled out is no more . And practically speaking...
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Avoid this one specific TLD when choosing your domain name
Apologies for the clickbait headline! I couldn't resist. My intent is to deceive, but only slightly. What is this all about? I was just ...
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Brian Krebs: Service Rents Email Addresses for Account Signups
Esteemed security journalist Brian Krebs reports on a new software-as-a-service just for bad guys. Need a bunch of email address to verify n...
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Brian Krebs on Email Aliases
It's always good to take a look at email functionality through a security lens. Head on over to Krebs on Security to check out " T...
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Friday fun: Electronic mail fraud and more
There's a term you don't hear every day: electronic mail fraud. Apparently it's just one of a litany of charges brought against...
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Body Found in Canada Identified as Neo-Nazi Spam King
Brian Krebs reports on the identification of the body of Davis Wolfgang Hawke, "a prolific spammer and neo-Nazi," and adds that ...
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Beware of questionable and/or bad guys trying to take advantage of you in a rough time
You want the country to open up again? Be careful not to let your haste allow you to fall into the astroturf-driven fake news websites, or e...
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Krebs: Phishers Are Upping Their Game. So Should You.
Brian Krebs recently published a most excellent article on the current state of phishing and what you can and should do to try to protect y...
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Do you need COI/DOI? Probably.
In case you've been living under a rock, or you've been lucky enough to not be affected, here's the deal: Some bad guys, probabl...
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FBI Raids Spammer Outed by KrebsOnSecurity
Another spammer put under the microscope! Brian Krebs reports on the FBI arrest of Michael A. Persaud , reported to be one of the world'...
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HostWinds: A Turnaround Story
From Brian Krebs comes the story of the fall and rise of internet hosting firm HostWinds . Founder Peter Holden explains how they came to ge...
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Pre-order Spam Nation by Brian Krebs
From Brian Krebs: "The backdrop of the story is a long-running turf war between two of the largest sponsors of spam. A true-crime tale ...
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Dutchman Arrested in Spamhaus DDoS
Brian Krebs reports on the arrest made in response to the recent massive distributed denial-of-service attack against anti-spam group Spamha...
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Score one for the Good Guys
The Composite Blocking List, a very popular anti-spam blacklist, reports that the Rustock botnet seems to have been disabled . Spam levels h...
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What is bulletproof hosting?
A friend asked me the other day, what exactly is bulletproof hosting? Laura Atkins has complained before, on this very blog , that Google is...
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Ralsky Gets 51 Months in Prison
Alan Ralsky, a pump-and-dump spammer noted by Spamhaus as one of the world's top ten worst spammers for " quite some time ," i...