Spam drops by two-thirds

Quite unexpectedly, the overall volume of spam has dropped by about two-thirds immediately following the severing of connections for McColo Corporation. According to an article in the Washington Post, McColo "was responsible for facilitating more than 75 percent of the junk e-mail blasted out each day globally".

The Washington Post article is available at:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/11/major_source_of_online_scams_a.html?nav=rss_blog