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A COMPUTER NETWORK which was responsible for 18 per cent of the world’s spam has been disabled by security experts.
According to a blogpost by the malware intelligence lab FireEye the Grum botnet, which was the third largest in the world, was ‘knocked down’ yesterday after three days of effort.
FireEye first took down a Dutch server, followed by one in Panama. The post explains that:
The shutdown of the Panamanian server meant a lot… Grum was comprised of two different segments. One was being controlled from Panama and one from Russia.
However, FireEye’s Atif Mushtaq said that ‘bot herders’ then began ‘pointing their botnet to new destinations’, with six new servers established in the Ukraine.
By passing information and intelligence between researchers, security analysts and internet service providers around the world, FireEye and a number of other parties were able to shut down the Russian and Ukrainian servers.
Spamhaus, a non profit organisation which tracks spam operations and sources has said that it has seen a decline in Grum IP addresses sending out spam from 120,000 daily, to just 21,505. Mushtaq said it’s expected that this will fade completely:
Keep on dreaming of a junk-free inbox.
Good news
Great to see the level of investment, particularly in highly skilled areas.
Great news. Good jobs.
Awesome stuff, these large jobs annoucements seem to be more common
While I agree that every job is beneficial, I wouldn’t say large number. it’s not specified how many will actually be provided. I would regard 1000+ as a large portion but way off the 4500000 needed, But small steps and all that jazz. And IBM are a good company to work for, started out with them myself in the 80s. Kudos to those who gets a job but there will be tens of thousands applying!
Siliconrepublic put the figure at 700: http://www.siliconrepublic.com/careers/item/27279-ibm-to-create-700-new-jobs/
who and where can I apply for an interview ?
Ha ha bruton ” we will vote again ” trying to take the praise for these jobs .
Might be to be with the fact he’s Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation.
Good news no doubt but IBM can’t fill the current jobs they have open.
Plus does anyone have any idea what kind of jobs these will be?
Hi Dan,
No specifics yet but they’ve said initial positions will be in sales and R&D.
Thanks,
S
In all fairness, IBM not filling positions has nothing to do with IBM, but the lack of qualified personnel in Ireland. I can assure you those positions will be filled, whether they are filled by Irish people or not is the question.
After they close the plant and let go over 400 people less then two years ago.
I was one of those people, I was made redundant last March, this really hurts if I’m honest. But it is good to see new jobs coming to Ireland regardless off the company.
sorry garry ,thought it was ibm who were creating the jobs , do you really believe that ” foot in mouth ” bruton had anything to do with it …..
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