Re: Spam Counts.

[Joel Rosenblatt <joel () COLUMBIA EDU>]

Hi,

We see our numbers go up and down all of the time .. no big trend.

Thursday, January 21, 2010 5:44 AM - 1,869,857 spam and other junk came from 295,753 unique IP addresses (about 6 
messages per host).

Wednesday, January 20, 2010 5:36 AM - 1,282,388 spam and other junk came from 294,747 unique IP addresses (about 4 
messages per host).

Tuesday, January 19, 2010 5:35 AM - 1,541,412 spam and other junk came from 327,350 unique IP addresses (about 4 
messages per host)

Monday, January 18, 2010 5:36 AM - 1,923,965 spam and other junk came from 292,712 unique IP addresses (about 6 
messages per host).

Sunday, January 17, 2010 5:28 AM - 1,465,025 spam and other junk came from 235,553 unique IP addresses (about 6 
messages per host).

Saturday, January 16, 2010 5:38 AM - 1,652,800 spam and other junk came from 258,384 unique IP addresses (about 6 
messages per host).

Friday, January 15, 2010 5:43 AM - 1,891,593 spam and other junk came from 303,342 unique IP addresses (about 6 
messages per host).

Thursday, January 14, 2010 5:39 AM - 1,597,208 spam and other junk came from 333,209 unique IP addresses (about 4 
messages per host).

... skipping ...

Friday, January 01, 2010 5:23 AM - 1,070,081 spam and other junk came from 196,752 unique IP addresses (about 5 
messages per host).

... skipping ...

Friday, December 25, 2009 5:26 AM - 1,306,378 spam and other junk came from 217,323 unique IP addresses (about 6 
messages per host).

... skipping ...

Monday, November 30, 2009 5:19 AM - 790,441 spam and other junk came from 130,955 unique IP addresses (about 6 messages 
per host).

... skipping ...

Saturday, October 31, 2009 4:30 AM - 1,284,214 spam and other junk came from 195,782 unique IP addresses (about 6 
messages per host).


My .02 cents

Joel Rosenblatt

Joel Rosenblatt, Manager Network & Computer Security
Columbia Information Security Office (CISO)
Columbia University, 612 W 115th Street, NY, NY 10025 / 212 854 3033
http://www.columbia.edu/~joel

--On Thursday, January 21, 2010 6:56 PM +0000 Montana Quiring <quiringm () CC UMANITOBA CA> wrote:

> FWIW: We are seeing the same here at the U of Manitoba as well.
>
> Montana Quiring
> IT Systems and Admin
> U of Manitoba
> 204.474.8694
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matthew Gracie" <graciem () CANISIUS EDU>
> To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 11:49:40 AM
> Subject: [SECURITY] Spam Counts.
>
> We're seeing an uptick in spam the last few days -- mostly messages
> consisting of a single link, with a noreply@[random domain] from field.
>
> Is anyone else seeing this? Is there some new botnet in town?
>
> --
> Matt Gracie                         (716) 888-8378
> Information Security Administrator  graciem () canisius edu
> Canisius College ITS                Buffalo, NY
> http://www2.canisius.edu/~graciem/graciem_public_key.gpg        



Joel Rosenblatt, Manager Network & Computer Security
Columbia Information Security Office (CISO)
Columbia University, 612 W 115th Street, NY, NY 10025 / 212 854 3033
http://www.columbia.edu/~joel