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Darkmailer2 month in Canada December 2012 SpamRankings.net
It's apparently Darkmailer2 month in Canada. One company got a grip on it, and two got much worse, in the December 2012 for Canada. AS 7788 MAGMA-COMM, bought in 2004 by PRIMUS Telecommunications...
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January 2013 SpamRankings.net
Most worsened: AS 10297 COLUMBUSNAP, from #91 to #6 worldwide in January 2013.Most improved: AS 48347 MTW-AS , from #8 to less than 250. Surprise entrant:AS 8685 DORUKNET . Still #1 for fourth month:...
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DorukNet outspammed Turkey again in January 2013 SpamRankings.net
For two months in a row, DorukNet's AS 8685 has spammed the most in the January 2013 for Turkey from CBL data. Before that, it was #6 in November 2012 and also #6 April 2011. In April 2011 the problem...
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Belgium: Easyhost still bad, Nucleus climbing, Stone dropped out in January...
Easyhost's AS 49512 tripled its spam, sending 97% of the total top 10 spam in the January 2013 for Belgium. Easyhost did start dropping in the last week.Nucleus BVBA's AS 39318 came up from nowhere to...
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Primus dropped out of January 2013 Canada SpamRankings.net
The big winner was AS 7788 MAGMA-COMM, which dropped from #3 to #147 by decreasing from millions to less than a thousand spam messages in the January 2013 for Canada. Magma had a brief spate of...
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Companies fear reputation for bad security
As more companies come out of the closet about their Internet security being compromised, still more start to admit it. But many (perhaps most) don't even know. Fortunately, there is a way the public...
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An Eerie Silence on Cybersecurity
Apparently it takes an alleged Chinese threat to get the New York Times to notice Internet security problems. The Times has escalated from a recent article to an editorial. NYTimes Editorial 26...
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Current security models broken; need resilience; how about reputation?
Bruce Schneier asserted yesterday that Our Security Models Will Never Work — No Matter What We Do. After detailing why he thinks that (the bad guys can get new techonology faster and have fewer...
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Anti-Spam Blocklists DDoSed Down
At least three anti-spam blocklists were taken down this week by Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks: Spamhaus, CBL, and APEWS. The first two are back up; the third is not. The Composite...
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