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Month: July, 2009

Enhancing TIP Spamtrap Data Collection

3 July, 2009 (14:28) | Projects, TIP | No comments

A new spamtrap submodule is currently under development. Its targets are spamtraps located on mailservers which I administer. Few of these mailservers generate huge amounts of spam mails and this leads to great performance troubles if you try to download them by POP3/IMAP and then parse. A different approach was thought for situations like these. [...]

TIP Fast-Flux Tracking module new design

1 July, 2009 (16:54) | Botnets, Fast-Flux, Projects, TIP | No comments

Few days ago I started thinking about the scalability limits of the TIP Fast-Flux Tracking module and realized its design was really awful. The approach was based on the idea of assigning a monitoring thread to each fluxy domain. This approach is well suited if the number of threads is quite small but not for [...]

 

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