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Re: Spam Counts.
From: Joel Rosenblatt <joel () COLUMBIA EDU>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:29:32 -0500
Hi, We see our numbers go up and down all of the time .. no big trend. Thursday, January 21, 2010 5:44 AM - 1,869,857 spam and other junk came from 295,753 unique IP addresses (about 6 messages per host). Wednesday, January 20, 2010 5:36 AM - 1,282,388 spam and other junk came from 294,747 unique IP addresses (about 4 messages per host). Tuesday, January 19, 2010 5:35 AM - 1,541,412 spam and other junk came from 327,350 unique IP addresses (about 4 messages per host) Monday, January 18, 2010 5:36 AM - 1,923,965 spam and other junk came from 292,712 unique IP addresses (about 6 messages per host). Sunday, January 17, 2010 5:28 AM - 1,465,025 spam and other junk came from 235,553 unique IP addresses (about 6 messages per host). Saturday, January 16, 2010 5:38 AM - 1,652,800 spam and other junk came from 258,384 unique IP addresses (about 6 messages per host). Friday, January 15, 2010 5:43 AM - 1,891,593 spam and other junk came from 303,342 unique IP addresses (about 6 messages per host). Thursday, January 14, 2010 5:39 AM - 1,597,208 spam and other junk came from 333,209 unique IP addresses (about 4 messages per host). ... skipping ... Friday, January 01, 2010 5:23 AM - 1,070,081 spam and other junk came from 196,752 unique IP addresses (about 5 messages per host). ... skipping ... Friday, December 25, 2009 5:26 AM - 1,306,378 spam and other junk came from 217,323 unique IP addresses (about 6 messages per host). ... skipping ... Monday, November 30, 2009 5:19 AM - 790,441 spam and other junk came from 130,955 unique IP addresses (about 6 messages per host). ... skipping ... Saturday, October 31, 2009 4:30 AM - 1,284,214 spam and other junk came from 195,782 unique IP addresses (about 6 messages per host). My .02 cents Joel Rosenblatt Joel Rosenblatt, Manager Network & Computer Security Columbia Information Security Office (CISO) Columbia University, 612 W 115th Street, NY, NY 10025 / 212 854 3033 http://www.columbia.edu/~joel --On Thursday, January 21, 2010 6:56 PM +0000 Montana Quiring <quiringm () CC UMANITOBA CA> wrote:
FWIW: We are seeing the same here at the U of Manitoba as well. Montana Quiring IT Systems and Admin U of Manitoba 204.474.8694 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Gracie" <graciem () CANISIUS EDU> To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 11:49:40 AM Subject: [SECURITY] Spam Counts. We're seeing an uptick in spam the last few days -- mostly messages consisting of a single link, with a noreply@[random domain] from field. Is anyone else seeing this? Is there some new botnet in town? -- Matt Gracie (716) 888-8378 Information Security Administrator graciem () canisius edu Canisius College ITS Buffalo, NY http://www2.canisius.edu/~graciem/graciem_public_key.gpg
Joel Rosenblatt, Manager Network & Computer Security Columbia Information Security Office (CISO) Columbia University, 612 W 115th Street, NY, NY 10025 / 212 854 3033 http://www.columbia.edu/~joel
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- Spam Counts. Matthew Gracie (Jan 21)
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- Re: Spam Counts. Montana Quiring (Jan 21)
- Re: Spam Counts. Joel Rosenblatt (Jan 21)