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Spam is defined as unsolicited bulk email (UBE). We all receive unsolicited email every day (advertisements, sales enquiries, job enquiries). That alone doesn’t make it spam. And I am sure that each of you, like myself, are on the receiving end of several different enewsletters or discussion lists, i.e. bulk email. Some of which weRead more

When the infamous Rustock botnet was taken down, it helped reduce one third of all junk email being sent. Botnets are responsible for an average of 88% of all spam sent globally. For anyone new to the term, a botnet is essentially a network of infected computers (i.e. zombie computers) operated by criminal entities, whichRead more

    A couple days ago, a fellow anti-spam specialist posted an interesting article called “To Delete or to Quarantine? That is the Question” on the GFI blog, AllSpammedUp. I would recommend you read his article prior to this one. The author, Ed Fisher, was discussing several of the problems attached to spam-quarantine management from bothRead more

In a previous article (IPv6 for Service Providers, SMBs and Technology providers), I was talking about the challenges that Service Providers, SMB and Vendors will be facing with IPv6.  Now, I would like us to take a look at the current adoption rate for IPv6 for the United States, Europe and the entire World. RIPERead more

In the late nineties, there was Y2K. Governments, businesses and individuals got scared big time. As a consequence, massive amounts of money were invested to prevent doomsday before it was too late. And it paid off. More than 10 years later, we can say the transition from the second to the third millennium was prettyRead more