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Belgium has a Kelihos problem in October 2012 SpamRankings.net
Belgium has a Kelihos problem in from CBL data for October 2012. #1 Mobistar's AS 12493 and #2 Telenet's AS 6848 were spewing spam from Kelihos, pushing all the other ASNs down the rankings. Kelihos...
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Turkey and Kelihos botnet rampage, October 2012 SpamRankings.net
Turkey, like Belgium, Canada, U.S., and the world, has a Kelihos rampage problem in from CBL data for October 2012. New Turkish #1 spammer AS 44565 VITAL TEKNOLOJI shows all the signs: rapidly...
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November 2012 Rankings
One ASN new in the top 10 wasn't even in the top 250 before, AS 26592 Dominio BR Consultoria em Informatica Ltda.
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OVH: Kelihos or darkmailer? November 2012 SpamRankings.net
OVH won again, more than doubling its spam spew of last month! This is in the November 2012 from CBL data. Is that 407,726,779 spam messages in a single month a record? Last month it was Kelihos. This...
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Vital Turkey, November 2012 SpamRankings.net
Even while spamming a lot less, AS 44565 VITAL still placed #1 again for spewing spam from Turkey in the November 2012 from CBL data. Even as Vital got a handle on its Kelihos problem, AS 8386 KOCNET...
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Webserver outage 23-25 December 2012
The webserver outage for 23-25 December 2012 due to disk failure is fixed now, with a more robust solution. None of the internal processing computers were affected, and no data was lost.
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A Field Quasi-Experiment @ ICIS 2012
Project participant Qian Tang presented at ICIS 2012 in Orlando, FL, 14 December 2012, a paper about comparisons of eight countries, in pairs, one of each pair ranked on and the other not. Statistical...
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December 2012 Rankings
Most worsened was AS 35908 VPLSNET, which didn't even make the top 250 last month but made #5 worldwide in December 2012. And it's a nostalgic return by old-time winner AS 7643 VNPT-AS-VN, already up...
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Medical churn in December 2012 SpamRankings.net
Good (Konkuk), improving (Cornell), and bad (eHealth) in the December 2012 country medical . First the good news: Konkuk University Hospital went from 297 spam messages last month to zero in December...
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Dark times in Turkey in the December 2012 SpamRankings.net
#1 AS 8685 DORUKNET, #3 AS 42910 SADECEHOSTING-COM, and #5 AS 34984 TELLCOM-AS all ran up in the last two weeks, and all three show darkmailer2. December 2012 for Turkey. DORUKNET sent a third of all...
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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 Rankings
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...
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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...
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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...
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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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February 2013 Rankings
New ASNs churning worldwide; WIN keeps popping up in medical , plus new Catholic Health Initiatives .
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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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