Major spam source, McColo, knocked offline

2008-11-12 Thread Bill Landry
Found this posted on another list, thought others here might find this of interest, as well. Major Source of Online Scams and Spams Knocked Offline: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/11/major_source_of_online_scams_a.html SpamCop.net - Total spam report volume:

Re: Major spam source, McColo, knocked offline

2008-11-12 Thread Matthias Leisi
SpamCop.net - Total spam report volume: http://www.spamcop.net/spamgraph.shtml?spamweek I first thought my stats are broken, but it seems they are still working as they did before - note the share-price-like drop beginning sometime after 22:00 UTC yesterday. (These mrtg charts are not mail

Re: Major spam source, McColo, knocked offline

2008-11-12 Thread fchan
I seen the similar statistics on my mail server. I saw a drop of spam since this morning which I normally see the daily spike of spam. I wish this lull in spam will last awhile since my mail server needs a break :-) Frank SpamCop.net - Total spam report volume:

Re: Major spam source, McColo, knocked offline

2008-11-12 Thread Arvid Ephraim Picciani
SpamCop.net - Total spam report volume: http://www.spamcop.net/spamgraph.shtml?spamweek I first thought my stats are broken, but it seems they are still working as they did before - note the share-price-like drop beginning sometime after 22:00 UTC yesterday. can't see any drop here. in

Re: Major spam source, McColo, knocked offline

2008-11-12 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 01:16 +0100, Arvid Ephraim Picciani wrote: why would all spam come from a single network anyway? Turning off that one network would stop spam from a bot net if the bot-herder's command server(s) are there. Martin

Re: Major spam source, McColo, knocked offline

2008-11-12 Thread Ned Slider
Martin Gregorie wrote: On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 01:16 +0100, Arvid Ephraim Picciani wrote: why would all spam come from a single network anyway? Turning off that one network would stop spam from a bot net if the bot-herder's command server(s) are there. Martin SpamCop's weekly graph

Re: Major spam source, McColo, knocked offline

2008-11-12 Thread Robert Schetterer
fchan schrieb: I seen the similar statistics on my mail server. I saw a drop of spam since this morning which I normally see the daily spike of spam. I wish this lull in spam will last awhile since my mail server needs a break :-) Frank SpamCop.net - Total spam report volume: