McColo host shut-down…less Christmas spam?

It’s funny, McColo shuts down and we breathe a sigh of relief.  This is interesting news on several counts – for a big hitter like McColo to be brought down spans far beyond the USA, but lays down a pretty solid signal to blackhat hosts that they cannot turn a blind eye to spamming.

A web hosting firm believed to have major spam gangs as its clients has been closed down, leading to a 70 per cent global fall in the levels of junk mail.

techradar.com

The reason that it’s funny (in a way), is that the relief is likely to be short-lived.  What happens here is that people employing McColo’s hosting ’solutions’ migrate to new blackhat hosts.  It’s a brief sigh of relief for our inboxes but give it another couple of days, and the spam levels, unfortunately, will be back-up to where they were.

The problem with spam goes far beyond our email accounts, and essentially increase security threats and increased demands on our servers that host our websites and serve web pages to visitors.  Spam is no good on many counts, but we might as well enjoy it’s reduced levels whilst we can.

What a negative post.

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