New Online and Mobile Best Practices Clarify Business and Governmental Security Tactics Baltimore, Oct. 24, 2012 – A cooperative international report available today outlinesInternet and mobile best practices aimed at curtailing...
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Read MoreKidnap. Rape. There are no lesser words that can be used to describe what happened to the daughter of an anti-spam investigator in Russia.
The criminals behind these vicious acts were also responsible for large spamming organization associated with Russian Mob activity.
When someone is mugged, harassed, kidnapped or raped on a sidewalk, we don’t call it “sidewalk crime” and call for new laws to regulate sidewalks. It is crime, and those who commit crimes are subject to the full force of the law.
The first step (but certainly not the last) towards saving the internet from spam, malware, and other abuse is to keep your own network clean.
A friend of CAUCE offers these tips and resources to help you identify problem traffic emanating from your network, and clean it up. Though primarily written for ISPs, many of the items below should apply equally well to any network owner.
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