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Spamhaus Suffers Possible Revenge DoS Attack
Published on 21 Dec, 2010 at 11:08 in Cloud | Viewed 83 times | No Comments
Anti-spam nonprofit Spamhaus has recovered from a denial of service attack over the weekend, but the cyber whodunit was not linked to WikiLeaks supporters as initially believed, according to The Register.
Speculation was that Spamhaus may have been attacked in response to its warning that a WikiLeaks mirror called WikiLeaks.info was being hosted by a Russian bullet-proof hosting outfit Webalta, which also housed phishing, carding and malware…
Increase in Latvian Botnet Causes Row
Published on 13 Aug, 2010 at 10:25 in Cyber | Viewed 578 times | No Comments
The recent rise in malicious and annoying email setting forth from Latvia has ignited a row between the country’s top domain registry and the anti-spam organization Spamhaus.
NIC.LV, which currently administers all the .lv domains, claims Spamhaus is “impolite, arrogant and even rude.” The rhetoric follows Spamhaus’ decision to place a large portion of Latvian IP…
