Re: McColo: Major Source of Online Scams and Spams Knocked Offline

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawgster () gmail com>]

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See also:

http://hostexploit.com/

- - ferg

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 6:22 PM, Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>
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.
>
> For the past four months, Security Fix has been gathering data from the
> security industry about McColo Corp., a San Jose, Calif., based Web
> hosting service whose client list experts say includes some of the most
> disreputable cyber-criminal gangs in business today.
>
> 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.
>
> [snip]
>
> More:
> http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/11/major_source_of_onli
> ne _scams_a.html
>
> Also, more details will become available real soon now...

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