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McColo Drops - Spam Drops.. 50+%!

Last Wednesday, the single largest host for spammers was taken offline after being discovered (everyone already knew) that they had been hosting the majority of the world’s spammers!

Hurricane Electric, their upstream ISP stated, “They’re obviously doing bad things online and we don’t want that on our network” - so the rest of the world knew, you only just found out? It’s about damn time someone pressured you!

McColo is a well-known ISP for hosting botnet C&C centers, phishing sites, mail servers et cetera, all for hackers. This was a major hit to some smaller botnets, but for the major ones, the coders obviously had a fall-back plan and many have already moved to off-shore hosts.

There’s no doubt about it though, McColo will find another provider to lach onto to give freedom to everyone’s illicit activities, and spam levels should rise back up by Chirstmas, as that’s the peak time for spammers and phishers alike to sink their teeth into some serious money *cough Santa worms*.

Expect a lot of, “hey! check out this picture of me at this christmas party: hxxp://www.lolvirus.com/trojan.php?=victim@email.com” messages over MSN, everyone!

If you had your services hosted on McColo, we’d love to know how it affected you! What are you going to move to? Just reply by commenting below,

Cheers!

- James.

What to do in case of a suspected email or phishing ?

What to do in case of a suspected email or phishing ?

1) Use always maximum attenction when reading emails

2) NEVER click on http links or images

3) Check the email of the sender on google to see if you find bad info, example of search: “info@—–.com spam” or “info@—–.com phishing”, this will give you bad info (if present) on that email

4) Check on google info on the site, example: if the email is: info@xxxxxxaaaaab.com remove the “info@” and search on google for “xxxxxxaaaaab.com” or “xxxxxxaaaaab.com phishing” or “xxxxxxaaaaab.com spam” or “xxxxxxaaaaab.com scam” (NOTE: xxxxxxaaaaab.com was taken as example and is not real)

5) Always report this kind of email to FTC. https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/

6) Delete the email!

Webhosting.

Sorry guys, my PayPal account was temporarly disabled so I won’t be able to receieve any payments. You can contact me via e-mail so we can setup another payment gateway until it gets resolved. I am sorry for those who wished to purchase web hosting.

US military botnet?

U.S. Air Force colonel has proposed the creation of a military botnet to unleash against the hackers, especially the computer networks of foreign powers. Botnets have become one of the hazards of modern life. They spew out spam by the truckload, and can be utilized for denial of service attacks. Now U.S. Air Force colonel Charles Williamson III has come up with a novel idea, according to AP. In the May edition of Armed Forces Journal the Colonel has proposed the formation of a military botnet that could be used against hackers and foreign powers to assert dominance – or at least defense – in cyberspace. But whereas hackers infect the computers of unknowing users to create their net of so-called zombies, Colonel Williamson has suggested that the military could create its botnet from computers it would otherwise discard, then expand it with code on other government computers.
Colonel Williamson, who is staff judge advocate for Air Force Intelligence in the Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas, wrote:
“The days of the fortress are gone, even in cyberspace. While America must harden itself in cyberspace, we cannot afford to let adversaries maneuver in that domain uncontested.” The suggestion has begun a debate on the idea of a military botnet. While some are against it, others see it as a way of increasing the country’s defenses against attack. But what, some have wondered, if the attacks came from computers in a friendly country? “The biggest challenge will be political,” Williamson answered. “How does the U.S. explain to its best friends that we had to shut down their computers? The best remedy for this is prevention.”
Source:
http://news.digitaltrends.com/news-article/16718/a-u-s-military-botnet

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