I got Spam?!

Here is an interesting and informative talk given by a Systems Administrators about BGP prefix hijacking and how spammers use it to evade RBL's. Here is an excerpt from the description:

BGP prefix hijacks take the IP addresses of others and make them your own. This talk provides a chilling account of the current use of prefix hijacks by spammers in a successful effort to defeat RBLs. Placed within the context of the history of the spam wars, this talk makes clear the grim future we face if we continue to escalate the spam wars into the network layer; namely, a future where every spammer on earth can arbitrarily choose and make routable an unallocated ipv4 address (one that the RBLs have never seen) once per day for the next few hundred years or so without ever using the same address twice or ever colliding with any other spammer.

It's from the Lisa '07 Conference that took place in Dallas this past November. Watch and learn!

• SPAM, Viruses and the Blacklisting of Exchange Servers
• GFI Adds Support for January 2008 Microsoft Security Updates
• Spammers Use Lunar Eclipse to Deliver Malware
• New Phishing Attack Masquerades as Government Alert
• Spammers top 10 report: US Leading the Axis of Evil!
• Security Software Industry Takes First Steps Towards Forming Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization
• Judge Orders End to Weight Loss Spam Organization
• Botnet Source Code For Overachievers
• Using Throttling and Traffic Shaping to Fight Spam
• Phishing Sites Now Using the Storm Worm Botnet
• Japanese Spammer Accused of Sending Over 2 Million Spams

Filed under: Spam Tags: by admin Date 17 February, 2008