Re: Speaking of filtering, was Research-y (IPv6)

On Mar 27, 2013, at 6:32 AM, Kurt M <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> Correct, what you included is the base material, but what do they tell a
> journalist, making them inclined to do a piece on it? The story, making the
> news?
> 
> Nader and similar researchers in other areas "marketed" such findings, they
> never gave them strait out to the press; because those figures doesn't say a
> thing to the them, catching their attention, digging deeper.

Oh sorry, I forgot to include my .sig.



Neil Schwartzman
Executive Director
CAUCE - the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email
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> Nader had
> basically no more than such data and some real life cases, but change the
> global automotive industry at its core, by taking the industry to the
> cleaners.
> 

CAUCE helped develop and pass CASL, the world's toughest anti-spam law, in Canada. CASL will have deep implications for anyone sending commercial electronic messages into or out of Canada, with fines up to $10,000,000 per email.

Beyond that, we work with the FTC, FCC, FBI, OFT, OECD, OPTA, ACMA, ICPEN, LAP, CRTC, ITU, MAAWG, APWG, and politicians and bureaucrats world-wide to develop, implement and deploy anti-abuse policy. Our board members have been heavily involved in virtually all of the highly publicized take-downs of botnets over the past decade.

While John Levine is no Nader, he is CAUCE president, and has had a direct hand in sending spammers to prison.

We can now stop re-inventing this particular wheel.


> 
> On Mar 27, 2013, at 13:37 "Neil Schwartzman" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Mar 27, 2013, at 1:30 AM, Kurt M <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Compile a yearly, for news people readable, "State of the Spam" and get a
>>> Ralph Naderish spokesman. If done right, it can prove to be a real incentive
>>> for ISP's to ID customers having spambots etc.
>>> 
>>> Can't be done?
>> 
>> What a great idea! Oh, wait.
>> 
>> http://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/networks/
>> 
>> The World's Worst Spam Support ISPs
>> As of 27 March 2013 the ISPs with the worst Abuse Departments and consequently
>> the worst reputations for knowingly hosting illegal spam operations are:
>> 
>> 1
>> cb3rob.net	Number of Current Known Spam Issues: 127
>> 
>> 2
>> hinet.net	Number of Current Known Spam Issues: 120
>> 
>> 3
>> idear4business.net	Number of Current Known Spam Issues: 77
>> 
>> 4
>> ovh.net	Number of Current Known Spam Issues: 77
>> 
>> 5
>> iliad.fr	Number of Current Known Spam Issues: 70
>> 
>> 6
>> airtel.in	Number of Current Known Spam Issues: 53
>> 
>> 7
>> telefonica.com.br	Number of Current Known Spam Issues: 52
>> 
>> 8
>> chinanet-gd	Number of Current Known Spam Issues: 52
>> 
>> 9
>> cat.net.th	Number of Current Known Spam Issues: 50
>> 
>> 10
>> uplus.co.kr	Number of Current Known Spam Issues: 50
>> 
>> 
>> http://hostexploit.com/downloads/viewdownload/7/46.html
>> Abstract
>> 
>> As malware continues to evolve, and cybercriminals continue to learn, one
>> particular fundamental remains constant – almost all malicious threats are
>> physically hosted somewhere. For this reason, it remains as important as ever
>> to examine hosting practices and standards and consider how they can be
>> improved.
>> 
>> One such way is to measure levels of cybercriminal activity on servers around
>> the world, and attempt to quantify the results. Such has been the aim of
>> HostExploit’s World Hosts Report (formerly Top 50 Bad Hosts) since publication
>> began in 2009. The quarterly reports examine all 43,000+ publicly-routed
>> Autonomous Systems in the world, gathering data on infected websites, botnets,
>> spam and other activity, before combining the research with trusted community
>> sources and analyzing the results.
>> 
>> The report makes suitable reading for service providers, security
>> professionals, webmasters and policymakers alike. For the most part, the
>> reader is left to draw their own conclusions, as numbers speak for themselves.
>> However, it should be stressed that most malicious content is not hosted
>> knowingly – often it is as a result of inaction, and sometimes hosts can be
>> the victims.
>> 
>> This quarter we see the return of Dutch hosting provider Ecatel to the #1
>> rank, having held the position at various times in the past. Ecatel does not
>> top the rankings for any particular category of activity, but rather for a
>> consistently poor showing across the board.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> http://www.spamrankings.net
>> Which organizations send the most spam?
>> 
>> February 2013 Monthly  World ∀ All  from CBL Volume
>> (Previous Month)
>> 
>> 
>> 1	(1) 	AS 16276 OVH	 FR
>> 2	(23) 	AS 17447 NET4INDIA	 IN
>> 3	(27) 	AS 21844 THEPLANET-AS	 US
>> 4	(4) 	AS 7643 VNPT-AS-VN	 VN
>> 5	(215)	AS 6724 STRATO	 DE
>> 6	(17) 	AS 15201 UOL	 BR
>> More...
>> AS 16276 OVH is still #1 but is finally getting a grip on its spam problem.
>> 
>> OVH was down from 19 million spam messages a day (38 million the previous
>> month) to 2 at the end of February. AS 8685 DORUKNET also got a grip on its
>> darkmailer2 problem. No worries for darkmailer2, though: all the other top 10
>> are infested by it, and all but AS 7643 VNPT-AS-VN got worse.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Both OVH and VNPT kept their former ranks yet spammed less. Only DORUKNET
>> spammed less and improved its rank. The other seven all spammed more.
>> Rank (Previous)	Organization	Country	Volume	Vol%
>> 1	(1) 	OVH Systems
>> www.ovh.com/fr/index.xml
>> AS 16276 OVH	 FR	284,910,621
>> (742,589,700)	17%
>> 2	(23) 	Net4India Ltd.
>> www.net4.in/
>> AS 17447 NET4INDIA	 IN	200,028,259
>> (90,959,551)	12%
>> 3	(27) 	ThePlanet.com Internet Services Inc.
>> www.theplanet.com/
>> AS 21844 THEPLANET-AS	 US	194,914,540
>> (64,029,949)	11.7%
>> 4	(4) 	Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications (VNPT)
>> www.vnpt.com.vn/
>> AS 7643 VNPT-AS-VN	 VN	180,285,185
>> (277,278,999)	10.8%
>> 5	(215) 	Strato AG
>> www.strato.de/
>> AS 6724 STRATO	 DE	144,373,753
>> (3,464,796)	8.63%
>> 6	(17) 	Universo Online Ltda.
>> www.uol.com.br/
>> AS 15201 UOL	 BR	138,311,682
>> (112,300,746)	8.27%
>> 7	(-) 	CTI Systems
>> www.ctisystems.com/
>> AS 41288 CTISYSTEMS-AS OOO	 UA	137,266,800
>> (-)	8.21%
>> 8	(88) 	Korea Telecom
>> www.kt.com/eng
>> AS 4766 KIXS-AS-KR	 KR	134,142,424
>> (19,428,991)	8.02%
>> 9	(3) 	DorukNet IstanbulTurkey
>> www.doruk.net.tr/
>> AS 8685 DORUKNET	 TR	131,685,436
>> (324,544,788)	7.87%
>> 10	(60) 	Hanaro Telecom Inc.
>> www.skbroadband.com/eng/
>> AS 9318 HANARO-AS	 KR	126,776,114
>> (34,711,361)	7.58%
>> 	Total		1,672,694,814	100%
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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