[AusNOG] ICANN to bring an end to TLD privacy?

[Chad Kelly]

On 6/29/2015 6:25 PM, Mark Newton wrote:
> On 29 Jun 2015, at 12:40 pm, Chad Kelly <chad at cpkws.com.au> wrote:
>>> On 6/28/2015 12:00 PM, ausnog-request at lists.ausnog.net wrote:
>>> Australian network operators and the wider technology community need
>>>> to learn what is actually a threat to the ability to operate networks
>>>> and services over the top of them. Spam is not a threat.
>> That is incorrect, spam has always been a threat and over the last couple of years with the more sophisticated methods that spammers use, such as sending viruses attached to emails in .zip files, its become more of a threat to network operators, and the servers and other devices attached to those networks.
> You're joking, right?
>
> (Viruses attached to zip files? Be still, my beating heart!)
>
> Let me get this straight:
>
> You believe that taking malware and encapsulating it in a .zip file, then base64-encoding it, then MIME-encoding it with a bunch of text and headers, then encapsulating it in SMTP over TCP, makes it a "threat" to network operators, in a way that the plain malware executable existing somewhere on the Internet wouldn't be?
>
>     - mark
>
>

No both of those forms of malware distribution are as bad as each other, 
hence why I mentioned about needing to filter both inbound and outbound 
content, as a lot of open source scripts such as Wordpress have a habit 
of being compromised and get used for redirecting users to sites with 
malware etc.
Which is ware tools such as CXS come in handy.
As well as Ironport for the anti spam side of things.


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Chad Kelly
Manager
CPK Web Services
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phone 03 9013 4853