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Spammers' Upend DNS

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the cat-and-mouse dept.

Saint Aardvark writes "eWeek reports on the latest trick of spammers: getting around DNS-based lookups. By registering a domain *after* the spam goes out advertising it, they can get around blacklists. However, that causes all sorts of problems for ISPs and anti-spam services. Paul Judge, CTO at Ciphertrust, says "Even in large enterprises, it's becoming very common to see a large spam load cripple the DNS infrastructure.""

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  1. First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I've always wanted a first post. . . .

    1. Re:First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Well keep wishing fucker, because YOU FAIL IT.

      Love,
      Your Friendly Neighborhood First Poster

  2. Nice Grammar. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "Spammers' Upend DNS"? I think you could certainly do away with the "'".

  3. Re:CMDRTACO FUCKS LITTLE BOYS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i was molested by taco and i'm starting a support group please call the firemen

  4. Re:Dammit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Making something illegal doesn't stop it from occuring.

    Sorry.

  5. Slashdot Writers' Learn Punctuation by blueg3 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Slashdot writers (and editors) are still a lot worse than spammers, but their punctuation has some room for improvement.

  6. Re:all this just makes me sad... by Turn-X+Alphonse · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    orphan trading? link please.

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  7. Re:Bogus article by SSpade · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Someone should definitely mod that +1 funny.

    (What I actually do is anti-spam forensics, tools and legal consulting.)

  8. Re:CMDRTACO FUCKS LITTLE BOYS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    oh fuck me too someone please let me join so that we can stop this monster from continuing to ruin more little boys' lives

  9. Re:Anti-Spam Legislation Is Only Effective Solutio by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I think you would find that breaking legs would be quite enough...

  10. Re:CMDRTACO FUCKS LITTLE BOYS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    please will somebody report this evil man to the authorities? he diddles my pee-pee on a regular basis and then goes to work on new fascist ideas for his shit website

  11. Re:A bounty... by katenysh · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm sorry but I do not think that making prison something like a Nazi work camp will lower crime. Most people do not think that they will be caught when committing a crime. If you want something to rehabilitate criminals do not send them to "criminal school". Instead it might be a nice idea to legalize LSD-imprinting reversal research started by Timothy Leary. He had an over 80% success rate before the US government stepped in and stopped his criminal actions....

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  12. (l)users??? Perhaps that is you. by Saeed+al-Sahaf · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I think it's really sad to refer to Users as Losers. It's very disrespectful and ignores that fact that just because you have to use a computer does not mean that you should have to be a computer professional and monitor Slashdot 24/7.

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