Terry Zink: Security Talk
Discussing Internet security in (mostly) plain English
Origins of the word spam
I have Yahoo set as my home page, and from time to time they have a decent article on...
Author: tzink Date: 06/21/2010
Spamhaus settlement knocked down from millions to thousands
Via TechDirt: Many years back, an "email marketing" company called e360 Insight got upset...
Author: tzink Date: 06/16/2010
Why are *.edu’s compromised so much?
When it comes to the problem of outbound spam, one of the experiences that I have, and this was...
Author: tzink Date: 06/15/2010
Security starts with not doing stupid things
Or rather, with me not doing stupid things. I’m currently at a conference in New Orleans (TechEd, a...
Author: tzink Date: 06/07/2010
Welcome to our world, Adobe
One of the problem that plagues free sites that permit user content uploading – Windows Live Spaces,...
Author: tzink Date: 06/01/2010
More Scareware indictments
From R&D: Posted by Tim Cranton Associate General Counsel, Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit Today...
Author: tzink Date: 05/28/2010
Don’t send from the cloud?
Over at MailChimp, Ben Chestnut writes about their frustrations from sending mail from the...
Author: tzink Date: 05/26/2010
A little bit of humor
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Author: tzink Date: 05/25/2010
Keeping Safe Online
Last week, the New York Times (via Yahoo) posted an article on five ways to keep safe online. They...
Author: tzink Date: 05/25/2010
FTC kills porn/spam ISP
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Author: tzink Date: 05/21/2010
No cyberattack on Wall Street
In case you missed it, last Thursday, May 6, we saw a remarkable day on the stock markets. The...
Author: tzink Date: 05/12/2010
Email rules to live by, for marketers
One of my personal friends works in the non-profit space. He has a blog post put up about the rules...
Author: tzink Date: 05/06/2010
Comparison: Top malware threats
All Spammed Up published a post this week highlighting the top seven malware threats for that (May...
Author: tzink Date: 05/04/2010
My secrets for making presentations
Some of you may not know this, but I really enjoy making presentations for audiences. When I...
Author: tzink Date: 05/01/2010
Should we trust the libertarians?
One of the RSS feeds that I read is Reason magazine, which is a web site for libertarians. In...
Author: tzink Date: 04/28/2010
Microsoft releases its Security Intelligence Report, version 8
Today, Microsoft released its Security Intelligence Report, version 8. The SIR is a...
Author: tzink Date: 04/26/2010
Newest round of Twitter spam
This one fooled me for a half second. I got an email to my work account indicating that I had 3...
Author: tzink Date: 04/23/2010
CallService.biz shut down by the FBI
Gary Warner over at Cyber Crime and Doing Time has a good post up this week about the...
Author: tzink Date: 04/21/2010
More details on the Google cyberattack
The New York times has some more details on the Chinese cyberattack that hit Google back in January,...
Author: tzink Date: 04/20/2010
Sarah Palin to take the stand in “hacking” trial
From the Associated Press: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – A former college student charged with hacking Sarah...
Author: tzink Date: 04/20/2010
Why bother changing your password?
Last month, DarkReading had an article about how end users’ tend not to choose strong passwords, and...
Author: tzink Date: 04/19/2010
Twitter’s efforts paying off
I’m proud of Twitter. Last year they started taking action to reduce the amount of spammers on their...
Author: tzink Date: 04/15/2010
US Air Force adds training in cyberwar
I read an interesting article today that the US Air Force is adding the basics of cyberwarfare for...
Author: tzink Date: 04/13/2010
Out of office spam
This past week we started seeing some examples of out-of-office or vacation reply spams being...
Author: tzink Date: 04/11/2010
How traffic shaping works, part 1
With all of the brou-ha-ha of the past couple of years surrounding Net Neutrality, and especially...
Author: tzink Date: 04/09/2010
Apparently my reputation precedes me
I recently made a slight shift in the team I report to at work. I’m still in anti-spam but the...
Author: tzink Date: 04/08/2010
Federal Appeals Court rejects FCC’s bid to enforce Net Neutrality
Yesterday, a federal appeals court ruled that Internet traffic regulators like the FCC had limited...
Author: tzink Date: 04/07/2010
An ominous warning
Those of you who have been following my blog for a few months know that this past November while I...
Author: tzink Date: 04/07/2010
Assessing the botnet threat
I came across this video today. Botnet researcher Joe Stewart discusses the current threat...
Author: tzink Date: 04/02/2010
Geeks all trust each other but not in China
Brian Krebs has a post up today on his blog indicating that the amount of spam ending in .cn has...
Author: tzink Date: 03/31/2010
Survey request from Forefront Server Protection team
My friends over in the Forefront Server Protection team have asked me to post a survey on my blog,...
Author: tzink Date: 03/26/2010
A bit about Zeus
As I posted a couple of weeks ago, the Zeus botnet was partially taken down after researchers worked...
Author: tzink Date: 03/25/2010