Robert Alan Soloway : One of the world’s most prolific spammer arrested
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Robert Alan Soloway, one of the world’s most prolific spammer, who was once on the Spamhaus Project list of top 10 spammers, has been arrested (More about Robert Alan Soloway)
This does not mean the end of spam. According to IronPort, the spam volume has been unchanged since his arrest and is around 70 billion messages per 24 hours, up from 36 billion a day last year.
Spamhaus project says:
Up to 80% of spam targeted at Internet users in North America and Europe is generated by a hard-core group of around 200 known professional spam gangs whose names, aliases and operations are documented in Spamhaus’ Register Of Known Spam Operations (ROKSO) database.
The Spamhaus maintains a real time block list of IP addresses of known spam-sources, including known spammers, spam gangs, spam operations and spam support services. The list is called SBL (Spamhaus Block List).
The Spamhaus Block List (”SBL”) can be used by almost all modern mail servers, by setting your mail server’s anti-spam “Blacklist DNS Servers” to query sbl.spamhaus.org (there might be some license restrictions on this service)
Daily Spam Outbreak (12 months view)
Top 10 Spam-Sending Domains (I was surprised to see Gmail at the second spot but then I get so many spam emails on my Gmail)
Top Spam-Sending Countries
Commtouch from where I got the above charts has a tool to tell you how much the spam costs your organization. You need to feed in: number of employees, average annual salary, average annual daily email per recipient, average % of spam from total email. you will get the total annual cost in dollars with a detailed breakup.
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