Spam Links Blog

SpamViz updated

A key part of the SpamViz network discovery and visualisation tool, MakeViz, has been enhanced. The MakeViz script is now usable under Unix and Linux, and the help pages contain advice on how to get MakeViz working with versions of Windows from NT upwards.

FTC fights zombies, vampires

Okay, so we made up the part about the vampires.

The US Federal Trade Commission is partnering with law enforcement and government privacy and communications organisations around the globe to coax ISPs into taking care of the zombie problems on their networks.

Ever prepared, the Spam Links page Spam Prevention for ISPs contains almost everything an ISP didn't want to have to know about cleaning up their zombie problems.

A bit of a spring clean

We've had a bit of a spring clean at Spam Links.

The most obvious new page is designed to help end-users with the various options you have to prevent the spam to your inbox getting out of control, to go with those already there for ISPs and marketers.

The securing systems page has been updated with some of the latest spam-related threats around, including open dns, some new web application relay vulnerabilities, and the recurring issue of open URL redirectors, and continues to provide a unique focus for some very common classes of vulnerability.

To help out our international readers, we've started to list links to sites that aren't in English in Unicode using the native language - check out Russian Anti-spam/Российский Анти-Спам to see an example. How is anyone's Japanese?

The Spam-L FAQ now describes us as

...like Yahoo for anti-spammers.

and we noticed Cogeco Network Security thought Spam Links is a

...great list of anti-spam resources.

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