Interesting links – January 11

January 11th, 2010

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Interesting links – January 4

January 4th, 2010

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Project Honeypot spam report

December 15th, 2009

The unsung heroes at Project Honeypot have just released a short analysis of spam traffic observed over the past five years.

The report 1 Billion Spammers Served “celebrates” the project receiving it’s one billionth spam message in it’s worldwide network of spam traps. Some salient points:

The full report is here.

Consider joining the project. They offer some useful services: an HTTP blacklist to reduce address harvesting from your sites, an IP monitor service to alert you of suspicious activity form your netblocks (which I wrote about before), and real-time spam feeds to tune your filters. You can help the project via direct donations, installing a honeypot or donating an MX record to catch spammer scum yourself.

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Interesting links – December 14

December 14th, 2009

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Interesting links – December 4

December 4th, 2009

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