Tag: tld
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Spamhaus report shows many botnet controllers look a lot like legitimate servers
Of all the annual security reports and blog posts that look back at the previous year, that of Spamhaus is one I particularly look forward to, as it always comes with good and interesting data. Though The Spamhaus Project is probably best known for its blacklists that are widely used for filtering spam, its researchers…
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Spamhaus report shows many botnet controllers look a lot like legitimate servers
Of all the annual security reports and blog posts that look back at the previous year, that of Spamhaus is one I particularly look forward to, as it always comes with good and interesting data. Though The Spamhaus Project is probably best known for its blacklists that are widely used for filtering spam, its researchers…
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Spammers exploit internationalized domain names
Non-Latin characters in URLs used to trick filters. By using internationalized domain names (IDN), spammers manage to avoid detection of URLs in their messages. IDNs were introduced in 2003 and allow for domain names in non-Latin alphabets, such as Russian, Chinese and Arabic, as well as in Latin with diactitics. On top of that, last…