Tag: ip address
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Kelihos checks machines’ IP addresses against DNS blacklists
Role of node in a botnet dependent on whether the IP address is blacklisted. Whenever I look at the results of the VBSpam tests, it always amazes me how large a percentage of spam is blocked because the sending IP address appears on a DNS blacklist. It is not that I wouldn’t expect those that…
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Mrs Mubarak’s IP addresses used by spammers
Spammers finding new ways to obtain non-blacklisted addresses. While not necessarily related to the current unrest in Egypt – which, among other things, led to the cutting off of most the country from the Internet – over 5,000 IP addresses belonging to the wife of the country’s president have been hijacked by spammers. The range…