"The Federal Trade Commission, in conjunction with 35 government partners from more than 20 countries, on Tuesday launched Operation Spam Zombies, an international campaign designed to educate Internet service providers about hijacked, or 'zombie,' computers on their networks," reports Information Week.
"The FTC's primary weapon in its war against zombie spam is bulk E-mail. Twenty members of the London Action Plan, an international anti-spam group, and 16 additional government agencies will E-mail several thousand ISPs around the world, asking them to take steps to protect the computers on their networks. These steps include blocking certain outbound server ports used by spammers, applying rate limiting controls on E-mail relays, profiling mail-sending patterns to identify likely zombies, and providing end-user security information and remediation tools."
Comment: I guess we should hope that the FCC's bulk e-mails aren't just blocked as spam....
