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Examining an Automated Spam Tool
Saint Aardvark writes "SecurityFocus has published an excellent column detailing how spammers r00ted an Apache server, and used it to send spam. The tool they used is (I hate to admit it) pretty sophisticated: it has macro capabilities, picks up email addresses from and reports success or failure to the master server. It's a very frightening read...and so is this: Message Labs reports that they now intercept 27 spam emails per second, up from 2 per second this time last year. Virus-created proxies are mainly to blame."
As I recall, you can turn that off pretty easily, although it is a stupid default.
A coupla years ago I looked into PHP and decided it was lame (waaaaay too many 'convenience functions', instead of generalized functions that you pass parameters to...). This past spring I decided to give it another shot and learned it for real.
It's still lame. Maybe I'm just spoiled by Perl...
"Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel." - A.B.
I'm embarassed to admit it, but I've been watching that show. I taped it last night, because I was busy elsewhere, and planned on watching it tonite to see what happens. After all, who would spoil the results of a show like that on a place like Slashdot? I figured nobody would.
BUT SOMEONE HAS TO GO AND POST A DAMN OFFTOPIC MESSAGE IN A CONVERSATION AND RUIN IT FOR ME! WTF are you doing??? Where's an army carrying clue-by-fours when you need them?
"You know your god is man-made when he hates all the same people you do."
my bad. seriously. i shoulda printed a *spoiler* warning.
guess i deserved the troll label.