Irwin Streit's Blog – September 2023 Archive (1)

The servers had controlled some of the world’s biggest botnets, the legions of hijacked personal computers that flood your inbox with ads for male-enhancement drugs. The blog here got a little bit snowed under with male-enhancement spam while the staff’s attention was on other things, but I volunteered to come shovel it out-I spend my days at Popular Science-and now posting shall resume! After taking over part of an existing botnet, the Berkeley team waged its own spam campaign, sending out…