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		<title>Terry Zink &#45; CircleID</title>
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		<dc:date>2012-02-10T13:14:00-08:00</dc:date>
		

		
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			<title> How Frequently Do Botnets Reuse IP Addresses? (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<dc:date>2012-02-10T13:14:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> DMARC: New Email Authentication Protocol (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[A consortium of companies including Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Paypal have announced that they were collaborating and coming up with a new protocol known as DMARC -- the Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance. What is DMARC? <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20120131_dmarc_new_email_authentication_protocol">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2012-01-31T12:02:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> IBM Predicts the Future for 2016 and It Includes No Spam (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[IBM published a video where it predicts what the world will look like in 2016 (see bottom of this post for the link). It includes the following five predictions. I want to start with the last one -- that junk mail (i.e., spam) will disappear. You'll need to watch the video to get the nuances of the prediction, but IBM says that in five years, Junk Mail will become a thing of the past. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20120107_ibm_predicts_the_future_for_2016_and_it_includes_no_spam">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2012-01-07T17:21:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> Antispam Law Draws Backlash (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I was reading in the Canadian Lawyer Mag that businesses in Canada are now coming to grips with the Canadian Antispam law that was passed last year. Canada's antispam law is much tougher than most jurisdictions. Aside from the penalties of the law, which are steep, what differentiates it the most from the US law is that Canada's law is an opt-in law; marketers who send commercial email must be able to demonstrate that they received consent in writing in order to market to people. As expected, people who are most affected by the law - marketers - are upset about the lack of wriggle room and how it could affect their business. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20111230_antispam_law_draws_backlash">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2011-12-30T10:09:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> Brazil: The Newest Up and Comer (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Virus Bulletin Conference last month had some good presentations, including this one by Fabio Assolini of Kaspersky. He spoke about how Brazil is the the newest up-and-comer on the cyber crime block. The tale begins with the story of Igor and Emily, two cyber criminals operating out of Brazil. Together, the two of them stole $300,000 US from a single Brazilian bank in one year. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20111123_brazil_the_newest_up_and_comer">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2011-11-23T16:12:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> What Chinese DDoS Malware Looks Like (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[While at that same Virus Bulletin conference that I was talking about earlier in my other post, I also had the chance to check out a session on Chinese DDoS malware put on by some folks from Arbor Networks. As little insight as I have into Android malware, I know even less about Chinese DDoS malware. So what's Chinese DDoS malware like? What are its characteristics? <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20111116_what_chinese_ddos_malware_looks_like">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2011-11-16T10:58:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> What Mobile Malware Looks Like (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Last month at the Virus Bulletin Conference in Barcelona, I took in one of the sessions on mobile malware. This type of malware is foreign to me because I mostly stay in the email space at work (and even then, I am focusing more on day-to-day issues of running a large mail provider than I am on spam and abuse). What's mobile malware like? What are the threats? How do users get infected? <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20111114_what_mobile_malware_looks_like">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2011-11-14T11:58:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> Oil and Gas Cyber Security Forum (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[A reader recently brought to my attention an upcoming conference in London in the UK -- The Oil and Gas Cyber Security Forum. Here's a little blurb: "Despite investments into state of the art technology, a majority of the oil and gas industry remain blissfully unaware of the vulnerabilities, threats and capability of a malicious cyber attack on control systems..." I bring this up because it is relevant to the trends in cyber security that we see this year - that of the Advanced Persistent Threat. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20111020_oil_and_gas_cyber_security_forum">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2011-10-20T13:41:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> SEC Asks Companies to Disclose Cyberattacks (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I came across an interesting article on Reuters today: "U.S. securities regulators formally asked public companies for the first time to disclose cyber attacks against them, following a rash of high-profile Internet crimes..." This is a pretty big step for the SEC. Requiring companies to disclose when they have been hacked shifts the action on corporations from something voluntary to something that they have to do. The question is do we want to hear about everything? <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20111018_sec_asks_companies_to_disclose_cyberattacks">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2011-10-18T11:21:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> What Is Email Appending and Why Is It Bad? (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[MAAWG recently released a document on email appending, criticizing the practice and describing it as abusive. But what is email appending? ... This definition is alright but I didn't find it as helpful as it could be. I looked it up on some other sites and I have a better description. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/what_is_email_appending_and_why_is_it_bad">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2011-09-27T12:05:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> Spam Is on the Decline; What Are the Implications? (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Previously, I wrote that the total amount of spam that we are seeing has seen a significant decline over the past year and a half. What does this mean in real terms? Are we finally winning the fight against spam? There are multiple angles. On the one hand, processing spam takes significant system resources... <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20110825_spam_is_on_the_decline_what_are_the_implications">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2011-08-25T09:29:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> Protecting Yourself from Spear Phishing (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[One of the big trends this year is spear phishing. These are phish attacks that are frequently (though not always) against high profile users. The purpose of these attacks is to steal sensitive data or get elevation of privilege inside the service by exploiting a software vulnerability within the user's computer that transmits usernames and passwords back to the phisher. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20110824_protecting_yourself_from_spear_phishing">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2011-08-24T10:36:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> Spam Continues to Drop (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<link>http://www.circleid.com/posts/20110815_spam_continues_to_drop</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The chart in this post shows the amount of inbound mail that we see, both spam and non-spam, over the past three and a half years. You can see in the above that the amount of good mail that we see has continued to increase over time. This is because of an increased customer base, not because the total amount of good mail worldwide has gone up... However, the amount of spam has plummeted from 23,000 in mid 2010 to 5000 now, a drop of over 75%. The contrast couldn't be starker -- spammers are not spamming as much anymore. It almost looks like the battle against spam is almost over. What's still left to do? <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20110815_spam_continues_to_drop">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2011-08-16T09:49:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> Another Day, Another Set of Hacking Attacks. News At 11. (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[While reading Reuters I came across a news article indicating that a number of high profile agencies - from the United Nations to the Canadian Government to government of Taiwan - were broken into over a period of the past five years. ... I'll say it right now, even though I haven't been briefed on it. It was China. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20110804_another_day_another_set_of_hacking_attacks_news_at_11">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2011-08-04T09:10:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> Is Cybersecurity a Priority? You Wouldn't Know It If You Go by Top Level Defections (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[In the US administration, we see important people like incoming Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta say at his Senate confirmation hearing that "a strong likelihood that the next Pearl Harbor" could well be a cyberattack that cripples the U.S. power grid and financial and government systems. He also said that cybersecurity will be one of the main focuses of his tenure at the Pentagon. But when you look at what is <em>actually</em> happening in cyber security, there is more position jockeying than there is real progress. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/is_cyber_security_a_priority_you_wouldnt_know_it_if_you_go_by_top_level_def">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2011-07-27T12:39:00-08:00</dc:date>
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