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22 Nov, 2008

Spam Drop!

Posted by: matt In: In the news| Security| Spam

Normally when I see articles such as this where spam volumes have dropped between 40-75%, my BS meter starts to peg on high. But more articles are coming out stating that 500,000 bots have been bagged.
Surprisingly, we have seen the drop here at the office. We have a store and forward [...]

A new security hole in the Internet Protocol is potentially the most severe ever discovered, according to a presentation by security experts Anton Kapela and Alex Pilosov. The two have revealed that the inherent nature of the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), which is essential for optimizing and routing traffic on the Internet, allows a hacker [...]

28 Mar, 2008

Air Marshals

Posted by: matt In: Security

Recently CNN ran an article called Air marshals missing from almost all flights.
In it they have stated that:
Of the 28,000 commercial airline flights that take to the skies on an average day in the United States, fewer than 1 percent are protected by on-board, armed federal air marshals, a nationwide CNN investigation has found.
SO WHAT?!?
Honestly, [...]


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