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Cut down on spam did not go unnoticed
4 commentsI wasn’t surprised when I heard that a major player in the world’s spam operations had its Internet connection severed. It’s no coincidence that my wife was just telling me how her email inbox was uncharacteristically “light” all day yesterday and was curious if I did anything here to mitigate the amount of spam we get. When I read Brian Krebs’ washingtonpost.com article "Host of Internet Spam Groups Is Cut Off" I learned that a U.S. based hosting service was operating servers and acted as a gateway for organizations that were involved in all sorts of illicit activities. So far, it doesn’t seem that the company, McColo Corp. has been charged with any crime, but nevertheless two Internet providers did cut off McColo’s Internet connectivity. The connection severing by both providers, Global Crossing and Hurricane Electric would indicate that they intend to cooperate with law enforcement and in distancing themselves from any illegal activities.
It’s about time that security researchers’ admonitions were heeded. Kudos to Joe Stewart, director of malware research at Atlanta-based Secure Works; he complained to McColo, but they told him they were addressing the botnet problem. In reality, they just relocated the Web sites to a different section of their network. Vincent Hanna is a researcher at Spamhaus.org and according to Krebs Hanna says McColo is known for being a “bulletproof hosting” business (Web servers that’ll stay online regardless of complaints about them).
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