McColo
McColo was a San Jose-based web hosting service provider.
Rogue Host PROXIEZ-NET Taken Offline
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Popular with cyber gangs, PROXIEX-NET had advertised itself as being impossible to shut down, but as we have seen with the McColo shutdown in November 2008 it is possible and it does make it harder for criminals to find a place to host their server.
Published on Friday 30th of July 2010 12:09:10 PM
Ecatel - NL is leading the charts in Top50 Bad ISP's
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Ecatel is the ranked #1 in the Top 50 Bad Internet Hosts & Networks CyberCrime Report Q1 2010 from HostExploit. Will they change or will they join McColo & Troyak ?
Published on Friday 30th of July 2010 12:09:10 PM
Security Fix - A year later: A look back at McColo
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A year ago today, the Internet community witnessed a remarkable event: The unplugging of McColo, a Web hosting facility in Northern California that for a long time controlled a majority of the spam-sending operations on the planet. McColo's two main Internet providers abruptly yanked the cord after Security Fix presented them with scads of evidence
Published on Friday 30th of July 2010 12:09:10 PM
Spam in May, use Swine Flu as bait
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“The volume of spam continues to rise normally, and now at the 94 percent level before the break of McColo. Spam Categories remind continues to change from month to month,” claimed the Symantec Information Authorized, Friday (15/5/2009).
Published on Friday 30th of July 2010 12:09:10 PM
Internet News Spammers recovering from McColo shutdown
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Symantec's monthly State of Spam report, out today, shows that levels of spam are approaching the dizzy heights they reached last year, before the sudden shutdown of rogue hosting company McColo.
Published on Friday 30th of July 2010 12:09:10 PM
Spam back up to pre-McColo levels
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Four months after ISPs disconnected hosting provider McColo, the global volume of junk e-mail has apparently returned to its previous levels, Google stated in an analysis posted on Tuesday.
Published on Friday 30th of July 2010 12:09:10 PM
Spam slightly lower in February, but botnets still lurking
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After a spike of Valentine- and recession-themed spam at the beginning of the month, February's spam rate finished slightly lower than January's. And though the shutdown of McColo last November made a serious dent in the overall volume, several botnets have been stepping up to fill the void.
Published on Friday 30th of July 2010 12:09:10 PM
Shutdown of Disreputable Web Server leads to drastic fall in
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Calif. based McColo, was pulled off Cyber-space after repeat complaints by web users. As illustrated in the graph, the impact of this event was tangibly felt worldwide, with continuously declined Spam activity for three weeks beginning Nov 11, in which global spam levels plummeted to 59% from average figures of 90% earlier.
Published on Friday 30th of July 2010 12:09:10 PM
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