[PLUG-TALK] Spam Drops to 12-year Low

[Richard Powell]

Well that certainly isn't stopping the botnets that have been 
consistently attacking my network for a year and a half now.  1,998 
blocked IP's across 11 servers yesterday alone.  If anything, I've seen 
an increase in the past three or four weeks.  I just lost a dedicated 
server customer yesterday because his box got hacked and he didn't want 
to spend the money/time to investigate or deal with it.  Not surprising 
since he wouldn't spend the money/time to secure the box in the first 
place.  But the timing is interesting with this article.  :-)

Attached is my last 30 days of spam graph.  It's clearly higher than 
50%.  And if spam is being stopped before it hits the computers, like at 
my network with Barracuda, then customers receiving email and using 
Symantec may not see the truth of what is still being sent and/or blocked.

Richard

On 7/17/2015 5:28 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
>     According to Symantec, phishing and other spam has dropped below 50% in
> June and the first half of July. The reasons appear to be shutting down
> botnets and a shift by the cyber criminal industry to malware.
>
>   	<http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-33564016>
>
> Rich
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