[ad] Ah so Mr Alan Ralsky one of the biggest spammers of all-time is back in the news after his indictment with 10 others for running a large scale spam operation intended to inflate stocks artificially. At one time it was thought Mr Ralsky and his friends were responsible for the majority of the spam […]
Archives for 2008
December Commenter of the Month Competition Winner!
[ad] Competition time again! As you know we started the Darknet Commenter of the Month Competition on June 1st and it ran for the whole of June and July. We have just finished the seventh month of the competition in December and are now in the eight, starting a few days ago on January 1st […]
gotroot modsecurity Rules for Apache – Anti-spam and Security
[ad] To follow on from Whitetrash which I posted about previously, here is another tool to secure your web site or web application. Essentially it’s a very comprehensive set of rules for mod_security. ModSecurity is an open source intrusion detection and prevention engine for web applications (or a web application firewall). Operating as an Apache […]
Nugache – The Next Big Storm?
[ad] We’ve covered quite a few Storm stories – now it seems there is a new player in town, which could possibly the most advanced malware and botnet instigator so far. It’s also something I’ve predicted before, peer to peer malware networks running without a command and control server, no single point of failure and […]
Happy New Year – Best Wishes from Darknet!
[ad] Happy New Year to everyone and cheers to a fantastic 2008. Let’s hope the year is buzzing with security news, there are interesting and exciting new developments and tools and the Darknet community can grow and become more active. If you can help us promote the site we’d appreciate it! Just drop a mention […]