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- With or without McColo, spam volume increasing again
- It was only a matter of time for spam volume to sky rocket again, despite McColo's shutdown in November. Two weeks after the cybercrime-friendly ISP got disconnected from the Internet, spam volumes are increasing once again with the main botnets using it as a command and control location regaining their...
- Tags: Continuity, Internet Service Provider, McColo, Spam Volume, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-12-09
- After McColo, spam way down - temporarily
- After McColo, spam way down - temporarilySounds like a threatThe author guarantees that this will not be the end of spam.He even tell them how to spam.RE: After McColo, spam way down - temporarilyI haven't noticed much difference. Maybe I am on different spam lists. But my SpamBully has been...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, spam way, McColo
- Discussion threads 2008-11-14
- Host suspected of serving spam, child porn cut off from Net
- The Internet has at least partially disconnected itself from McColo, an ISP suspected of providing hosting services to criminals serving kiddie porn and selling Viagra and fake security software. According to PC World, Hurricane Electric, which had been peering with McColo disconnected Tuesday night. Global Crossing also peered McColo and...
- Tags: Trend Micro Inc., Child Pornography, McColo, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Cyberthreats, Spam, Internet, Security, Spam And Phishing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
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- Spammers go multilingual, use automatic translation services
- For years spammers relied on basic mass marketing concepts in an attempt to target everyone, everywhere, thereby sacrificing quality for quantity. Things changed, at least for some of them. Realizing the advantages of market segmentation, certain spammers started segmenting the databases of harvested or emails based on...
- Tags: Spammer, Translation Service, Spam, Cyberthreats, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-07-28
- Overall spam volume unaffected by 3FN/Pricewert's ISP shutdown
- Following last week's shutdown of 3FN/Pricewert's operations by the FTC, wishful thinkers expected a major decline in the overall spam volume, with botnet masters once again caught off guard just like it happened in November, 2008 with McColo's shutdown. However, according to numerous vendors that doesn't seem...
- Tags: Internet Service Provider, Malware, FTC, Spam Volume, 3FN/Pricewert, Marshal8e6, Rustock, Pricewert, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Business Security, Viruses And Worms, Security, Internet, Business Operations, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-06-10
- Spam reduced following Pricewert shutdown
- Spam reduced following Pricewert shutdownTemporary benefitLike the McColo shutdown, other bad actors will pop up to take their place. It is encouraging to start to see these shutdowns become a more common occurrence.No change for gmailIt hasn't slowed to spam to my gmail account,which was flooded the day...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, spam, Pricewert
- Discussion threads 2009-06-10
- McAfee: Welcome to the United States of Zombie PCs
- McAfee on Tuesday released its quarterly report on Internet security. The results? Cybercriminals have taken control of 12 million new IP addresses since January. Add it up and the U.S. contributes 18 percent of the IP addresses controlled by botnets. These zombie PCs appear to be lining...
- Tags: McAfee Inc., PC, Spammer, IP, Zombie, Network Technology, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
- Google: Spam volume for Q1 back to pre-McColo levels
- Google: Spam volume for Q1 back to pre-McColo levelsDo a little EditingThere are so many type-os in this article, I would be embarrassed to post it on a legitimate site. You should be ashamed editor.RE: Google: Spam volume for Q1 back to pre-McColo levelsI absolutely agree bbonis...is this a...
- Tags: pre-McColo level, pre-McColo, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-04-07
- News to know: IBM-Sun; RIM, Web 2.0; CTIA; Facebook; iPhone
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: IBM-Sun deal nears finish line; Antitrust worries just starting Sam Diaz: RIM delivers solid Q4 on BlackBerry...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Web, Facebook, Research In Motion Ltd., Larry Dignan, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, CTIA, IBM Corp., Web 2.0, Open Source, Internet
- Blog posts 2009-04-03
- Google: Spam volume for Q1 back to pre-McColo levels
- It took only a couple of months for cybercriminals to catch-up and reintroduce the massive spam volumes that briefly disappeared following the shutdown of the cybercrime ecosystem's sitting duck McColo in November, 2008. According to Google's Postini Spam data and trends for Q1 2009, during the first...
- Tags: Google Inc., Spammer, Spamming, Spam Volume, Spam, Cyberthreats, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-04-02
- Bad, bad, cybercrime-friendly ISPs!
- In a post-McColo, post-Atrivo and post-EstDomains cybercrime ecosystem, the researchers at FireEye have recently launched a "Bad Actors series" aiming to put the spotlight on some of the currently active badware actors online. The sampled ISPs represent safe heavens for drop zones for banker malware, DNSChanger malware, rogue security software...
- Tags: Internet Service Provider, Malware, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-03-04
- The Value of Security Suites
- While the recent shutdown of systems hosted by McColo was a milestone in the war against spam, the shutdown was little more than a short-term obstacle for spammers. As the threat landscape continues to evolve, small and midsize businesses need to stay vigilant and informed. By gaining a greater awareness...
- Tags: Shutdown, Symantec Corp., Environment, Small And Medium Business, Smb/Sme, Security
- White papers 2009-01-01
- News to know: Microsoft patches; Office 14; Intuit; SAP
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Office 14: The near silence is deafening Ryan Naraine: Hackers exploiting unpatched IE 7 flaw to launch drive-by attacks MS Patch...
- Tags: Intuit Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Office, Patch Management, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., E-mail, Microsoft Windows, Online Communications, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2008-12-10
- With or without McColo, spam volume increasing again
- With or without McColo, spam volume increasing againProposalLet's start sending all paper mail with no envelopes.Why not? What's that you say? Privacy? Hmmm. That's reasonable.Then, maybe we should send emails enclosed in 'envelopes', Yes?What a great idea! Envelopes. (I kid.)Seriously, What is obvious to me is...
- Tags: Spam, Domain names, e-mail, spammer
- Discussion threads 2008-12-09
- After McColo, spam way down - temporarily
- Spam plummeted by two-thirds, in the wake of the plug being pulled on alleged cybercrime host McColo, according to news reports. But virtually no one thinks spam will continue at today's low level of merely 60 billion spam messages per day. ...
- Tags: Spammer, Eastern Europe, Spam, Cyberthreats, Security, Spam And Phishing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Spam rates massively down on shutdown of rogue ISP
- Spam rates massively down on shutdown of rogue ISPIt's not about spamIf McColo had had the sense [1] of a decapitated cockroach, they'd still be in business. Spam doesn't even get you a return phone call from Global Crossing, but kiddie porn?[1] Yeah, I know: Rule 3.RE: Spam rates...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Cyberthreats, rogue ISP, shutdown, Internet Service Provider, spam, spammer
- Discussion threads 2008-11-12
- Spam rates massively down on shutdown of rogue ISP
- Several major news outlets are reporting that the shutdown of a rogue ISP in the Bay Area has lead to a massive drop in the global amount of spam. While this is "good thing", this event is not an end of spam, nor is it even the beginning of...
- Tags: Shutdown, Spammer, Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Adam O'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
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