R.I.P. CastleCops
After about 6 years of existence, long time security website Castlecops.com has shut down operations, effective December 23, 2008. This comes about 6 months after the owner of the website left it in the hands of his deputies to pursue a security based career at Microsoft. I was a member of CastleCops for a long, long time, handling anti spam solutions in the MailWasher forum. I am sorry to see this valuable resource go away.
My thinking is that somebody will step up and offer a similar place for security minded people to gather and do their good work. It will cost a lot of money for redundant, failover hosting, and the servers will have to be robust, with huge pipes to the Internet. When CastleCops closed up shop they were still in the midst of an ongoing fund raiser to buy new servers. The existing equipment was simply overloaded to the point that the site would take minutes to change pages to various forums and search results. The databases were unbelievably huge.
If and when this hopeful re-emergence occurs you can rest assured that I and thousands of other former CastleCops volunteers will gather at the new site, to resume the good work of fighting phishing, scamming, spamming and malware threats. Until then, I continue to maintain my MailWasher Pro spam filter discussions on the new Firetrust MailWasher Forum. I post new MailWasher spam filter updates on my website and in the aforementioned Firetrust forum.
In the meantime you can learn about my preferred anti-spam solution, MailWasher Pro, or learn how to protect your websites from scammers, spammers and hackers using my .htaccess blocklists, or my iptables blocklists.
Still guarding the Castle against scammers and spammers, I remain your humble Wiz.
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