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ICANN notifies junk mail offenders

26-May-08

In order to clarify the system for dealing with incorrect whois domain name registration information, ICANN announces it has contacted the registrars reported as being the registrars for the majority of websites advertised in unsolicited promotional email.

Proposed cure for “fast flux”: throw away DNS resource records

22-May-08

“Fast flux” refers to the practice of hosting malicious services on a large number of compromised computers, while using highly dynamic DNS resource records to direct traffic between those “bot net drones”. In order to combat “fast flux”, the new Internet Draft document “Double Flux Defense in the DNS Protocol”, by John Bambenek of the [...]