Office cat says
All work and no cat petting makes for a very cranky, and in the way, cat.

All work and no cat petting makes for a very cranky, and in the way, cat.

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Management Summary, Redistributable Documents and Links
I’ve been stage-managing for a production of The Nutcracker this week, so musical terminology is on my mind. In opera, the intermezzo is a comedic interlude between acts of an opera series.
This comedic interlude is about the “DDoS” – a distributed denial of service attack. What is a denial of service attack?
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Management Summary, Redistributable Documents and Links
In the past week we’ve demonstrated that the SORBS reputation data is riddled with mistakes, poor practices, security holes and operational problems, and that the quality of the end result is really too poor to be useful.
What does this mean to you though? There are really two aspects: 1. what to do if you’re blacklisted or blocked by GFI or based on GFI/SORBS data and 2. how this information should affect your choice of spam filtering technology. We’ll be looking at the first point today, and the second tomorrow.
There has been an ongoing, concerted attack against ESPs recently. Today ReturnPath published some of what is known about the attack.
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