'Forgotten' Blockchain Account Needing Reactivation? It's a Scam

  Scammers are using 'forgotten' cryptocurrency accounts as bait for stealing the identities of the gullible and dishonest. You have been wa... | Continue reading


@bsdly.blogspot.com | 1 year ago

A Few of My Favorite Things About the OpenBSD Packet Filter Tools

The OpenBSD packet filter PF was introduced a little more than 20 years ago as part of OpenBSD 3.0 . We'll take a short tour of PF feature... | Continue reading


@bsdly.blogspot.com | 1 year ago

SPF Protected Spammers in the Public Cloud, Spamware to Spamtraps, SSH Groping

This past week was truly one for the blooper reel. A public cloud service provider let the great unwashed into the address ranges published ... | Continue reading


@bsdly.blogspot.com | 2 years ago

Recent and not so recent changes in OpenBSD

Known to be "functional, free and secure by default", the OpenBSD operating system has played an important role in open source for more tha... | Continue reading


@bsdly.blogspot.com | 2 years ago

The Impending Doom of Your Operating System Going to or Past 11

Will the uncertainty over forced obsolescence of fairly recent hardware force Microsoft and Apple users to switch to open source alternative... | Continue reading


@bsdly.blogspot.com | 2 years ago

Are you aware what you lose by just clicking OK to get started using something?

The right to privacy, the right to repair and the right to choose your tools for tasks at hand are aspects of the same. A new court ruling i... | Continue reading


@bsdly.blogspot.com | 2 years ago

RFC7505 Means Yes, Your Domain Can Refuse to Handle Mail

If you do not want a domain to receive any mail, there is a way to be at last somewhat civil about it. There's a different DNS trick for tha... | Continue reading


@bsdly.blogspot.com | 3 years ago

The Hail Mary Cloud and the Lessons Learned (2013)

Against ridiculous odds and even after gaining some media focus, the botnet dubbed The Hail Mary Cloud apparently succeeded in staying unde... | Continue reading


@bsdly.blogspot.com | 4 years ago

Keep smiling, waste spammers’ time (2013)

When you're in the business of building the networks people need and the services they need to run on them, you may also be running a mail s... | Continue reading


@bsdly.blogspot.com | 5 years ago