Security

Penetration testing (also called pen testing) is the practice of testing a computer system, network or Web application to find vulnerabilities that an attacker could exploit. Kali Linux Cheat Sheet for Penetration testers is a high level overview for typical penetration testing environment ranging from nmap, sqlmap, ipv4, enumeration, fingerprinting …

A DNS-based Blackhole List (DNSBL) or Real-time Blackhole List (RBL) is an effort to stop email spamming. It is a “blacklist” of locations on the Internet reputed to send email spam. The locations consist of IP addresses which are most often used to publish the addresses of computers or networks …

Law enforcement and IT Security companies have joined forces to disrupt cybercriminal businesses with ransomware connections. The “No More Ransom” website is an initiative by the National High Tech Crime Unit of the Netherlands’ police, Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre and two cyber security companies – Kaspersky Lab and Intel Security …

I always thought that most of the large spammers/gangs are from Africa or Eastern European region (no offense guys - clearly mainline-media portrays it that way). Looking at this list and their location was more of a revelation. Anywho, detailed records on each spammer or spam gang listed can be viewed by clicking on the names.

Woke up this morning and found two emails from domaincorp.org in my Inbox stating my domains are being used for spamming and spreading malware recently. Subject line contained “Domain Abuse Notice” which looked serious!