Collaboration key to fighting crime on the internet
The Pittsburg Post Gazette has a good article on the DNS Changer Working group and how it can serve as a model for future collaboration against cyber crime.
The Pittsburg Post Gazette has a good article on the DNS Changer Working group and how it can serve as a model for future collaboration against cyber crime.
Email – and email filtering – makes a lot of use of DNS, and it’s fairly easy to miss something. Here are a few checklists to help:
Read MoreWe’re back from MAAWG, but somehow I’ve not managed to catch up with everything from last week enough to have time to get back into the swing of blogging. I do have lots and lots of things to say, just not quite enough hours in the day to get them down on paper.
It was great to meet so many blog readers. I really appreciate each and every one of you that introduced yourselves and told me you read the blog. Not many people comment, so I don’t have a good feel for the number of readers. Hearing from readers was great!
MAAWG itself seemed lower key than it has been in the past, but I really think the organization is getting good work done. I strongly recommend people who haven’t been before to visit. There’s lots of great information about messaging, filtering and abuse prevention. They even have a new name! M3AAWG. (Messaging, Malware and Mobile are the 3 Ms)
The Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council (CSRIC) published a Anti-botnet code of conduct for ISPs. This is a purely voluntary code for U.S. ISPs that want to mitigate the botnet threat to follow. You can download a full copy of the final report from the MAAWG website. The FCC has published a fact sheet about the report on their own website.
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