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Spammers' Upend DNS

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. 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.

  2. (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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