Bot nets likely behind jump in spam

Bot nets likely behind jump in spam
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2006-10-27

A significant rise in the global volume of spam in the past two months has security analysts worried that bot nets are increasingly being used by spammers to stymie network defenses erected to curtail bulk e-mail.

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Bot nets likely behind jump in spam 2006-11-01
Anonymous (1 replies)

I find it incredible that a company would be investigated if they promoted their stock through normal media without a prospectus, but that not one finger is lifted when the same stock is promoted through spam. There must be someone with the company behind the campaign and if the powers that be were...

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Re: Bot nets likely behind jump in spam 2006-11-03
Anonymous

It's much more likely that the people behind the stock spam are day-traders who buy up the stock and then try to increase its price by spamming promotions for it....

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Bot nets likely behind jump in spam 2006-11-01
Anonymous

Is there any documentation that shows the different types of botnets in use and maybe... possibly how to infiltrate the botnet and disable it?

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Bot nets likely behind jump in spam 2006-11-03
Doug Myhre (1 replies)

I've been collecting statistics from our mail server spam filter. I noticed the jump also, more than one. Saw a jump around 9/18/2006, another around 10/3/2006. Our server currently receives about 60000 messages per day. Of that about 11000 are valid, about 32000 are quarantined as spam (the res...

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Re: Bot nets likely behind jump in spam 2006-12-18
Anonymous

Shouldn't dynamic ip rbls take care of most of this type of spam?...

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