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Re: McColo: Major Source of Online Scams and Spams Knocked Offline
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawgster () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:23:06 -0800
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah <rMslade () shaw ca> wrote:
Date sent: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:22:42 -0800 From: Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>On Monday, Security Fix contacted the Internet providers that manage more than 90 percent of the company's connection to the larger Internet, sending them information about badness at McColo as documented by the security industry.http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/11/major_source_of_onl ine _scams_a.htmlInteresting. Recently one address fell from about 300 spam per day down to about 50. Another went from roughly 150 down to about 20. However, that was about two weeks ago, not Monday.
You're not the only person to notice this. :-) http://msmvps.com/blogs/spywaresucks/archive/2008/11/12/1653883.aspx ...and previously (last night): http://msmvps.com/blogs/spywaresucks/archive/2008/11/12/1653833.aspx - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj4DBQFJGx8Dq1pz9mNUZTMRAgXlAKDlN3PFerr4dnOa1b0k/gUmaXBA7gCTB3hy rcR6ww5BUiBlI0VSK+33hQ== =KYWn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawgster(at)gmail.com ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Re: McColo: Major Source of Online Scams and Spams Knocked Offline Rich Kulawiec (Nov 13)
- Re: McColo: Major Source of Online Scams and Spams Knocked Offline Paul Vixie (Nov 13)
- Re: McColo: Major Source of Online Scams and Spams Knocked Offline Rich Kulawiec (Nov 13)
- Re: McColo: Major Source of Online Scams and Spams Knocked Offline Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah (Nov 12)
- Re: McColo: Major Source of Online Scams and Spams Knocked Offline Paul Ferguson (Nov 12)
- Re: McColo: Major Source of Online Scams and Spams Knocked Offline Jon Kibler (Nov 13)
- Re: McColo: Major Source of Online Scams and Spams Knocked Offline Paul Vixie (Nov 13)
- Re: McColo: Major Source of Online Scams and Spams Knocked Offline Paul Ferguson (Nov 12)
- Re: McColo: Major Source of Online Scams and Spams Knocked Offline Paul Ferguson (Nov 11)