{"id":41,"date":"2005-09-19T12:02:37","date_gmt":"2005-09-19T11:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Tuazon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=47"},"modified":"2005-09-19T12:02:37","modified_gmt":"2005-09-19T11:02:37","slug":"spam-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuazon.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/09\/19\/spam-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Spam Maps&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.f-secure.com\/weblog\/#00000653\"><tag>F-Secure<\/tag><\/a> have posted some interesting stuff about a program from <tag>Mailinator<\/tag>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mailinator.com\/\">Mailinator<\/a> is a service that provides <tag>throw-away email<\/tag> addresses you can use for web registrations &#8211; very handy in this day and age&#8230;. but given the &#8220;nature of the beast&#8221; the system ends up getting lots of <tag>spam<\/tag>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, here&#8217;s the cool part: they&#8217;ve created <a href=\"http:\/\/mailinator.com\/mailinator\/map.html\">a realtime map<\/a> using <tag>Google Maps<\/tag> to actually show you where the spam is coming from. Well, actually, it shows the location of the <tag>proxy<\/tag> &#8211; ie. the <tag>Zombie PC<\/tag> that&#8217;s been owned as a result of <tag>Mydoom<\/tag>, <tag>Bagle<\/tag>, <tag>Mytob<\/tag> or any of the multitude other viruses that install <tag>spam proxies<\/tag> as their <tag>payload<\/tag>.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/mailinator.com\/mailinator\/map.html\">the <tag>Map<\/tag><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>F-Secure have posted some interesting stuff about a program from Mailinator. Mailinator is a service that provides throw-away email addresses you can use for web registrations &#8211; very handy in this day and age&#8230;. but given the &#8220;nature of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tuazon.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/09\/19\/spam-maps\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBD-F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuazon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuazon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuazon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuazon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuazon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuazon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuazon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuazon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuazon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}