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Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:22:42 -0800
From: Paul Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [funsec] McColo: Major Source of Online Scams and Spams Knocked Offline
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Via Security Fix.
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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
After reading this, and the (Washington Post I believe--I'm away from
my laptop right now) article on this, two things are bothering me.
The article expressed a good deal of frustration with the (lack of)
speed with which law enforcement has been tackling these issues. What
wasn't clear was
The more we allow Gadi Evron to post the more this list turns into a
rehash of digg and reddit news aggregation web sites.
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 2:37 AM, Gadi Evron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Kee Hinckley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> After reading this, and the (Washington Post I believe--I'm away from my
> laptop right now) article on this, two things are bothering me.
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> The article expressed a good deal
On Nov 11, 2008, at 7:52 PM, mike wrote:
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
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008, Kee Hinckley wrote:
After reading this, and the (Washington Post I believe--I'm away from my
laptop right now) article on this, two things are bothering me.
The article expressed a good deal of frustration with the (lack of) speed
with which law enforcement has been tackli
n3td3v wrote:
The more we allow Gadi Evron to post the more this list turns into a
rehash of digg and reddit news aggregation web sites.
Well, I'll just drop off the list so you you can talk uninterrupted
about Important Operational Matters like "who's got a freebie DSL
connection for me in I
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:30:45AM -0600, Kee Hinckley wrote:
> The article expressed a good deal of frustration with the (lack of)
> speed with which law enforcement has been tackling these issues.
Law enforcement is almost a complete non-factor in dealing with
online abuse.
Action is erratic
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