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A month ago I read a fascinating book called McMafia 1by Misha Glenny 2. Glenny, a former BBC world correspondent, presents a terrifying yet eye opening look at how organized crime has progressed with Globalization over the last few decades. Glenny covers all the major illicit activities from global drug trafficking networks, to prostitution andRead more

I recently attended the M.I.T Spam Conference.  The conference was originally purely about spam, but with time it’s evolved into more of a mail and malware security conference.  This year, the hot topic was oriented around social networks and how spammers (or, more appropriately, cybercriminals) are exploiting this to expand their illicit businesses.  Note thatRead more

Botnets are networks of compromised machines that are under the command and control (C&C) of one entity – the botnet master.  They are typically used for crimes such as denial-of-service attacks, identity thefts, phishing and, most commonly, for sending spam.  Current botnets have easy-to-use HTML-based interfaces and can be rented out by spammers for theirRead more