<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d1d2a909-faab-45f5-a38f-1cbece5fdecc/ED981F1F-14E8-441B-83CD-C137EDAF338F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.money.co.uk/article/1001959-global-spam-falls-by-70-percent-as-hosting-firm-shut-down.htm" href="http://www.money.co.uk/article/1001959-global-spam-falls-by-70-percent-as-hosting-firm-shut-down.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.money.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.money.co.uk/article/1001959-global-spam-falls-by-70-percent-as-hosting-firm-shut-down.htm"><B>ISPs have pulled the plug on a hosting firm responsible for running spam-producing botnets.</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.money.co.uk/article/1001959-global-spam-falls-by-70-percent-as-hosting-firm-shut-down.htm"><P>This week saw global spam levels drop significantly after two major US internet providers pulled the plug on spurious hosting firm McColo.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.money.co.uk/article/1001959-global-spam-falls-by-70-percent-as-hosting-firm-shut-down.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.money.co.uk/img/AB9E70EB-B779-4407-9EF8-3C853531316B" alt="Global Spam Falls by 70% as US Hosting Firm Shut Down" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.money.co.uk/article/1001959-global-spam-falls-by-70-percent-as-hosting-firm-shut-down.htm"><P>In the immediate aftermath anti-spam firms reported an astounding 70% reduction in the amount of junk mail in circulation.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.money.co.uk/article/1001959-global-spam-falls-by-70-percent-as-hosting-firm-shut-down.htm"><P>Californian based McColo is believed to have hosted domains for spam gangs running some of the most prolific spam-producing botnets in the world, in addition to a number of fake pharmacy, antivirus, designer goods and child pornography sites.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.money.co.uk/article/1001959-global-spam-falls-by-70-percent-as-hosting-firm-shut-down.htm"><P>ISPs Global Crossing and Hurricane Electric, who were together responsible for providing 90% of McColo’s access to the wider internet, shut off the firms access on Tuesday after receiving a detailed report from the Washington Post. The report culminated a four month investigation by Security Fix, the newspaper's security blog, into activity emanating from McColo-hosted domains.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/ED981F1F-14E8-441B-83CD-C137EDAF338F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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