How quickly can a zombie be caught?

Pretty @#$% quickly if you heard Amir Lev, Commtouch’s CTO speaking at the Ferris Webinar yesterday, together with Ferris’ Richi Jennings.
The webinar was about understanding mail reputation services, and Amir gave an overview of different types of reputation services, as well as a sneak peak into Commtouch’s GlobalView Mail Reputation Service, a new version of [...]

Symantec deconstructs a zombie

January 30th, 2007 by Jay | Category: Email Security | Leave a comment »

The Ferris daily post pointed me to the Symantec site to see more zombie deconstruction. Take a look at Armado Hidalgo’s post
TAB: So, what is the purpose of all this renewed activity, you ask? The primary goal is to create a botnet that sends tons and tons of penny stock spam (but because the botnet [...]