Press

Articles and interviews about my work in the open source community.

• Ongoing DDoS Attack Exposes a Weak Point in SpamAssassin's Rule Infrastructure
  Guardian Digital, August 3, 2026 - Exclusive interview on a sustained DDoS attack against SpamAssassin's rule-update infrastructure, the rate-limiting fix, and lessons for the project's architecture.
• Giovanni Bechis Takes Helm of SpamAssassin Project Management Committee
  LinuxSecurity.com, April 1, 2025 - Profile on becoming Chair of the Apache SpamAssassin PMC, covering the vision for the project and plans for community engagement.
• Revamping SpamAssassin: Giovanni Bechis' Ambition for Safer Emails
  Guardian Digital, March 31, 2025 - Interview about strengthening the open-source spam-filtering project and upcoming technical improvements.
• Apache SpamAssassin Leadership: Bechis's Vision for Email Security
  LinuxSecurity.com, April 7, 2025 - Newsletter feature covering the new PMC leadership and direction for SpamAssassin.
• SpamAssassin is back
  LWN.net, November 2, 2018 - Coverage of a talk at Open Source Summit Europe on the SpamAssassin 3.4.2 release and the project's revival.
• Managing Log Files and More With Elastic Stack
  Linux.com, September 22, 2016 - Interview explaining the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) and log-based alerting work for mail server security.