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ISP Accused of Being Haven For Spammers Knocked Offline

ISP Intercage, dubbed a “major hub of cybercrime”, with 78% of its domains and mail servers used for malicious purposes, has been cut off by its upstream provider,Pacific Internet Exchange.

| News | Security | 10/07/08 at 8:50 am |


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Best Spam Defense

The best defense against spam is continuously educating the email user community. As administrators we may sometimes get a little too hung up on the technocratic methods of preventing spam. Although the technical details are important, our email users must be constantly reminded of their role to prevent spam. It’s an extremely important role.

| Best practice | Security | 10/03/08 at 10:37 am |


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Spammers Once Again Attacking Microsoft’s CAPTCHA

Spammers are again attacking Microsoft’s CAPTCHA system and so far have a 10-15% success rate. They’re using automated bots to defeat the system, which was revised and revamped after it was attacked successfully earlier this year. Experts have found that the process involves three stages.

| News | Security | 10/03/08 at 9:56 am |


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Court halts subway hacker talk

A U.S. District Court judge ordered the cancellation of a Defcon conference talk scheduled for Sunday that would have detailed flaws in the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority electronic ticketing system.

| News | Government | Legal | Security | 08/10/08 at 8:09 pm |


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