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August 2012 Rankings
SAUDINet briefly sent less spam from Festi botnet but ended up #1 again, while India's National Internet Backbone steadily got worse. TTNET and KOCNET swapped places for the first time ever in Turkey...
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Festi pushes KOCNET to #1 in Turkey and #3 in the world
Festi botnet spam made KOCNET beat TTNET to #1 in Turkey for the first time ever in August 2012 SpamRankings.net, in rankings from both CBL and PSBL data. While TTNET managed to stop most spam from...
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Spam externality cost ratio higher than stealing cars: what to do about that?
Spammers only make about $200 million a year, yet they cost everybody else around $20 billion a year, for an externality cost 100 times spam income. That turns out to be higher externality than...
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Festi in the rest of the top Turkish 7 SpamRankings.net 2012-08 CBL data
We've already looked at TTNET, which pushed Turkey to the top of the spamming world in July 2012, and KOCNET, ditto in August. What about other Turkish ASNs? The next five are AS 12735 ASTURKNET, AS...
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Reputation as Public Policy for Internet Security @ TPRC 2012
Saturday I presented Reputation as Public Policy for Internet Security at the 40th Telecommunications Research Policy Conference (TPRC) hosted by George Mason University School of Law, Arlington, VA....
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Terms of Service rankings
Here's another reputational rankings initiative, about something we all encounter whenever we use a new service on the web. According to Terms of Service; Didn't Read (TOS;DR), “I have read and agree...
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No Festi dip in LACNIC, July 2012 SpamRankings.net
There was a dip in volume from the top 20 Festi-infested ASNs starting about 15 July 2012, bottoming out 21 July 2012, except one region's ASNs did not dip. The three Latin American ASNs in the Festi...
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September 2012 Rankings
Four medical countries this month: Belgium was first at the beginning of the month, because WIN is back. Korea shot up at the end of the month, because of Konkuk University Hospital's AS 38668...
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India outspammed the world in September 2012 SpamRankings.net
India's BSNL-NIB beat Saudi Arabia's Saudinetstc for worst spamming organization in the world in the September 2012 , and pushing India to the top of the world country rankings. ASNs in Saudi Arabia,...
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Data storage issues in SpamRankings.net
Data storage issues led to loss of some incoming data for the September 2012 SpamRankings.net. Interestingly, the results seem almost normal anyway. Here is a speculation on why that can be. Look just...
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ISPs, spam, and botnets? a case in Finland
In Finland, some ISPs proactively detect spamming botnets and do something about it. A small company that does computer maintenance, "HS-Works Oy" located in Helsinki, Finland, received a computer...
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Global Crossing spammed the most from the U.S. in September 2012...
Winner and new champion: Global Crossing's AS 3549 GBLX! GBLX won the September 2012 with almost half of all the spam from the top 10 seen in the CBL data and more than a third seen from PSBL. What...
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KOCNET outspams Turkey, gaining on TTNET's record in September 2012...
More than two-thirds top-10 Turkish spam came from KOCNET in September 2012 for Turkey from CBL data. KOCNET's 68.5% is about the same as its 68.7% for August and more than TTNET's 65.2% for July but...
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Botnets behind the late-month upswings in Belgium in the September 2012...
Congratulations to Belgacom, Mobistar, Uganda-Telecom and BASE Belgium for improving in the September 2012 for Belgium from CBL data! But what's behind Brutele and Mobistar and Gateway getting worse at...
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October 2012 Rankings
The Kelihos rampage pushed many countries to the top of the world rankings.
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Kelihos rampage in October 2012 SpamRankings.net
What's the Kelihos rampage mentioned in the October 2012 ? It's a few IP addresses sending hundreds of thousands and even millions of spam messages a day. It seems to be associated with Kelihos botnet....
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Kelihos and Maazben botnets in October 2012 SpamRankings.net
Let's look at the botnets associated with the Kelihos rampage in the October 2012 . Two botnets turn up the most Maazben and Kelihos. Why call it the Kelihos rampage, then? Because CBL's detection of...
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Why no kelihos rampage in PSBL October 2012 SpamRankings.net?
Why do the rankings from PSBL data not look much like the October 2012 rankings from CBL data in ? Apparently because PSBL does not use the heuristic that CBL uses that catches the few IP addresses...
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Kelihos and Maazben botnets in U.S. October 2012 SpamRankings.net
We've seen that botnets Kelihos and Maazben account for most of the spam seen from the entirely-new worldwide top 10 in the October 2012 Kelihos rampage. What about a specific country? The U.S. top 10...
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Canada and Kelihos in October 2012 SpamRankings.net
The Canadian top 10 were half the same as last month and half due to Kelihos in the from CBL data for October 2012. Canadian #1 iWeb (CBL; #10 PSBL) made it into the world CBL top 10 because of...
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