This post is not spam or malware related at all.  I just thought that I’d point out that Canada won the gold medal in men’s hockey today at the Olympics.  What a great day for Canada!

Courtesy of The Onion .

Yesterday, I posted that Microsoft had recently obtained a court order to shut down several *.com’s that were known to host command-and-control centers for the waledac botnet.  Working together with some folks at Shadowserver, the University of Washington...

A number of places are reporting that Microsoft was won a court order to shut down the Waledac botnet.  Both the Wall Street Journal (registration required), The Register and ComputerWorld report on it.  Quoting from the ComputerWorld article...

Joseph Menn has an article on CNN.com wherein the crux of the story is that US experts are closing in on the hackers that broke into Google last month.  It is believed by some that the Chinese government sponsored these hackers.  China, naturally...

Did you ever wonder how many organizations out there are signing their mail with DKIM?  Or how many organizations rely on SPF as a tool to validate their inbound mail? Well, I’ve wondered as well.  DKIM supposedly is getting more popular, but...

I recently wrote an article that I submitted to Virus Bulletin about how certain elements in Eastern Europe have connections to large botnet armies and are able to launch DOS attacks on the infrastructure on a country.  This is similar to what happened...

Apologies for the strong title of this post, but it aptly describes the emotion I am feeling at the moment. I installed Skype a little while ago and I don’t use it too often.  I only really talk to one person on it and now that I am on an AT&T...

A friend of mine sent me this image via TheDogHouseDiaries : In case you don’t know what is going on, let me explain it in plain English: Google Buzz allows you to post something innocuous. Your Buzz followers (which I shall heretofore refer to as Buzzers...

Well, I wasn’t going to blog about Google Buzz, yet here I am.  I used to own shares in Google, and at the time I did, Google could do no wrong.  It didn’t matter that none of their products made money other than Search.  Then, I sold them...

Courtesy of The Onion , there is a new worm making its rounds across the Internet that is threatening to take money out of your pocketbook – it makes unauthorized purchases using your computer.  View the video below to get more details.

A friend of mine posted this on his wall at work.  I’m reposting it here.

The botnets that I track are dominated by a few of them – rustock, cutwail, and bagle-cb.  Rustock is the one that appears far more heavily than others, but what about the smaller players? When my scripts are working properly (which is about 50%...

A couple of weeks ago, I posted that Australia was getting ISPs to boot infected computers off of their network.  I commented on whether or not this was a good policy.  However, there was one thing in that article that I wanted to comment on...

In part 1 of my series, I looked at which botnet sends the most spam, by total number of messages sent at the recipient level and not the envelope level.  In part 2, I looked at which one sends the most spam by total amount of bytes that they emit...

Following up from my previous post, there are a couple of ways to measure which botnet sends the most spam.  On the one hand, botnets can send 1 spam message but address it to a lot of different recipients, thus putting the cost of delivery heavily...

Around the Internet, and even on this blog, various analyses have been done on botnets and which one is responsible for sending the most spam.  Whether it’s Rustock, Cutwail, or one of the new kids on the block (grum, gheg, or donbot), I don’t really...