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Conficker – The Little Worm That Didn’t?

Posted on April 1, 2009August 25, 2014 by

So today is April 1st, which means a bevy of April Fools gags. This year we saw the Gmail Autopilot and the discontinuation of the Blackberry Storm and upside down Youtube to name a few. If you have been listening to the Internets lately, there’s also something big that’s supposed to be going on, and that’s…

Spam-fighting Organization Names Top 10 “Spam Friendly” Registrars

Posted on February 9, 2009July 5, 2019 by

Julianna

Spam-fighting organization KnujOn, or “no junk” spelled backwards, has released a report on the top 10 registrars it has linked to spam and other illicit activity. Founded in 2005, the KnujOn project targets spam at its root by collecting spam samples from the public, not to build better filters or blacklists, but to terminate illicite…