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Egypt Returns
Egypt returned to the Internet about 09:30 GMT today (2 February 2011). This sudden return after being as suddenly disconnected one week ago (27 January 2011) is obviously not due to ordinary causes...
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Krebs on SpamRankings.net
Brian Krebs wrote on his blog, Naming & Shaming Sources of Spam: A new resource for spotlighting organizations that are unwittingly contributing to the global spam problem aims to shame junk email...
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"botnet herders can add it to its spam-spewing botnet" —Fahmida Y....
This reporter spits out a string of alliterative language that labels the problem that SpamRankings.net helps diagnose. Fahmida Y. Rashid wrote in eWeek.com 8 June 2011, UT Researchers Launch...
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The Big Drop: medical to zero in SpamRankings.net
A surprise in the July SpamRankings.net rankings: US medical rankings all went to zero by 14 July. World medical rankings went from hundreds and thousands to near zero between 17 and 24 July. That's...
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Massive effects of reputational rankings on law schools
Law schools game weak reputation rankings, which could be fixed, if the law schools, the bar association, or the ranking organization wanted to. If anyone doubts that reputational rankings can have...
View ArticleYou can help Stop-eCrime
Stop-eCrime aims to reduce electronic crime by increasing transparency of information and communications technologies. Born out of 2010 meetings organized by the Anti-Phishing Working Group and the...
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Upset in Canadian spam rankings: Canaca took first, Bell Canada down to fifth!
Canaca-com's AS 33139 CANACA-210 rose from sixth place in August to first in September in SpamRankings.net for Canada from CBL data. Long-time winner Bell Canada's AS 577 BACOM fell from first to...
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How to leverage botnet takedowns
What is to be done when botnet takedowns don't produce lasting benefits? At the Telecommunications Policy and Research Conference in Arlington, VA in September, I gave a paper about Rustock Botnet and...
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Big Churn in the U.S. in October SpamRankings.net
Big churn in the U.S. for October 2011 in included last month's winner by spam volume vanishing, Comcast retaking the top spot but with only 2 out of the top 10, and colo FDCservers.net AS 30058...
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What is IPWORLDNET and why is it spamming from Canada?
In the October SpamRankings.net for Canada (from CBL data), IPWORLDNET is that big blue molar tooth in the graph on the right. In the interactive chart you can see IPWORLDNET's Autonomous System (AS)...
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China does not lead Country Rankings from SpamRankings.net
An area where China does not lead the world: Country rankings by SpamRankings.net. China is only #13, but Brazil, Russia, and India (the other three BRICs) are in the top five countries by total spam...
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Cleveland Clinic spewing spam again
Here's why to look at more than one spam data source: according to the PSBL volume data for November 2011, Cleveland Clinic's AS 22093 CCF-NETWORK spewed more than a hundred spam messages a day on...
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Air reputation in Beijing
Measuring something as basic as air quality and posting it frequently can have reputational effects, demonstrated by the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. France24 posted today, Beijing air goes from...
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World PM2.5 Map as reputation
NASA posted 22 October 2009, New Map Offers a Global View of Health-Sapping Air Pollution In many developing countries, the absence of surface-based air pollution sensors makes it difficult, and in...
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Comcast pushed out of first, yet wins November U.S. SpamRankings.net
How can an ISP both lose and win in top 10 rankings? By placing more than once! Comcast got pushed out of first place by AS 46475 LIMESTONENETWORKS and AS 21788 NOC in the November 2011 Monthly U.S....
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Coal company reputation
Good news from the SEC for a change! They're requiring coal plant operators to report health and safety violations, including fatalities, within a few days of occurence. FuelFix posted from AP on 23...
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India, Bank of America, and CyberSURF: December 2011 SpamRankings.net
In SpamRankings.net for December 2011, worldwide India spammed the most, while Bank of America topped one U.S. ranking, and CyberSURF peaked in Canada, but Cleveland Clinic cleaned up its act. More on...
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Global Crossing spam spike, November 2011
In the November SpamRankings.net from PSBL data, Global Crossing's AS 3549 GBLX spiked on 17 November and a few days before, pushing it into fifth place. Did this spam spike come from any particular...
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SEC moving towards breach disclosure requirement?
The 13 October 2011 SEC guidance, CF Disclosure Guidance: Topic No. 2: Cybersecurity, leaves most of the decision of what sort of breaches are significant enough to disclose up to the affected...
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CSHS is back in January 2012 SpamRankings.net
In SpamRankings.net, January PSBL data reveals three three-digit U.S. medical spamming organizations, plus CSHS, and CBL data confirms a big spam spike from CSHS. The three with more than 100 spam...
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