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Re: [funsec] McColo: Major Source of Online Scams and Spams Knocked Offline (fwd)

  • From: mike
  • Date: Tue Nov 11 22:53:02 2008



Since 11/5, my spam load has dropped from about 400,000 attempts per day to less than 40,000 ! And most of this I had noted was comming from what looked like compromised web hosts - eg: same host/domain name representing 10 or 20 addresses in any given range). I am shocked at the sudden and dramatic downtick but also equally delighted! Way to go!


Gadi Evron wrote:

Via Security Fix.


[snip]

A U.S. based Web hosting firm that security experts say was responsible for
facilitating more than 75 percent of the junk e-mail blasted out each day
globally has been knocked offline following reports from Security Fix on
evidence gathered about criminal activity emanating from the network.