Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Phishing at Work...

My brother works for an Amish Construction Crew and at least once a week he is paid while him and his co-workers have a few beers and fish for a few hours. I picked the wrong job field!

Today, my work has involved sifting through months worth of emails sent from my web server to make sure it isn't being used as a relay spam server. 2 years ago when I set it up, I made sure the configuration setup prevented this, but some still slip through.

We received an email from Time Warner today letting us know that they have receive numerous complaints of spam email coming from our IP address. "Fix it or Lose it". I'm assuming they mean 'lose our static ip'. Not sure. Either way, I'm blacklisting every IP address that looks...fishy.

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