| After McColo takedown, spam surges again Spammers have regrouped and are finding ways to send more junk mail despite recent efforts by security experts. Enjoy lower spam levels while they last It's kind of like the "war on drugs": Lock up one dealer and it's not long before another seizes the business opportunity. Place your bets against malware The response to my recent Gearhead and Backspin columns on malware has been amazing! And the range of suggestions has ranged from admit defeat, wipe the system, and start again to fight the good fight and don't give in. ICANN ponders ways to stop scammy Web sites The overseer of the Internet's addressing system is soliciting ideas for how to fix a problem that is enabling spammers and fraudulent Web sites to flourish. Stop Internet Poachers from Stealing Your Wi-Fi Everyone has a different system for keeping their home networks secure. And by "secure" I mean "safe from cheapskate neighbors looking to poach some free Internet." What's the Conficker worm got to do with NAC? The Conficker worm doesn't directly have anything to do with NAC, but as is the case when any pervasive attack becomes high profile, vendors leap in to point out how their products could have prevented the problem. Data Breach at Heartland May Be Bigger Than TJX's A data breach disclosed last week by Heartland Payment Systems Inc. may displace the one revealed by The TJX Companies Inc. in January 2007 as the largest compromise of payment card information to date. Networking Geek to Geek with Jimmy Ray Purser: 10 Tips for creating your own small hackers group 1. Be of like interest. 2. Keep it small. 3. Define an objective. More tips. Author Expert: Scott Hogg: Practical BGP security While you wait for the slow-moving big wheels of the Internet to move we need to have some way of protecting ourselves from the current set of threats. Fortunately, there are many things you can do to secure your BGP connections. January giveaways from Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet
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