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Don’t Let The Grinch Steal Your Christmas

Stewart White — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:43:27 +0000

Tis the Season…to be wary. With the holiday season upon us, expect an increase in SPAM, especially malicious payload SPAM claiming to be from UPS, FedEx, USPS, Amazon or other shipping or shopping outlets. Spammers are becoming more sophisticated at using social engineering techniques in their emails. These techniques are designed to get you to [...]

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Top 10 Countries with most malicious networks

Stewart White — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 18:23:57 +0000

search feed In the past we have released many top 10 lists showing countries in the order of spam production or other similar criteria. One of the latest lists orders the results like this: United States China Russia United Kingdom Germany Japan Brazil Romania Ukraine Turkey While the order is technically accurate when considering the [...]

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Denial of Service Attack

Stewart White — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 23:49:13 +0000

Country IP Blocks experienced a lengthy Denial of Service attack today. The attack, lasting approximately three hours, primarily involved Eastern European networks. The biggest culprit was Belarus and addresses within the 86.57.250.0 – 86.57.251.255 block. We have invested quite a bit of money, time and effort to prevent successful attacks. Our efforts paid off today. We [...]

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Ukraine: Most Dangerous Networks

Stewart White — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:32:38 +0000

If there was a July Olympic event for comment spammers, hackers and generally unwanted network traffic, Ukraine would certainly be vying for a gold medal. While monitoring web traffic from thousands of IP addresses located in The Ukraine, we noticed a familiar pattern: 99.99% of the traffic was malicious, detrimental or otherwise undesirable. Ukrainian network [...]

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Proxy Lists

Stewart White — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 23:25:14 +0000

Country IP Blocks is testing a new network proxies by country feature. If the test is successful we will add the proxy data to our Access Control Lists. If you are looking to block network proxies by country please give us some feedback and let us know. If we add this feature to our daily [...]

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Number One Global Comment Spammer?

Stewart White — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:52:15 +0000

The current number one Global Comment Spamming block is currently awarded to Germany. Several IP addresses within the 109.230.192.0/18 CIDR block have allegedly accounted for tens of thousands of comment spam postings within the past several weeks. © 2011, Stewart White. All rights reserved.

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Top Ten Global Spammers 1Q 2011

Stewart White — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:14:07 +0000

Our list of the Top 10 Global Spammers for the first quarter of 2011 is now available. The biggest global spammer? The United States takes over the number one spot, followed closely by China, India, Russia and Turkey rounding out the top five. Here is our complete Global Spanner Top Ten List for the first [...]

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Open Relays: An Inherent Danger

Stewart White — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:52:42 +0000

Online businesses and webmasters like to know a little about their visitors, customers and prospective customers. This enables them to present their goods, services and information as effectively as possible. Web surfers, on the other hand, like to have a degree of anonymity and privacy protection. When visitors come to certain websites, information is gathered, [...]

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Is Blocking by Country Discriminatory

Stewart White — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:29:03 +0000

At Country IP Blocks we get lots of email from individuals with complaints about blocking a country. The complaints state that it is not fair to prevent access from anyone, anywhere at any time. They go on to state it is racist, discriminatory, bigoted, mean-spirited and outright unfair. We appreciate and understand their emotional arguments. [...]

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Top Two Comment Spamming Countries

Stewart White — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:08:36 +0000

Russia, the number one contender for top Comment Spammer, originated comment spam has risen 312% this year, making them the tried and true leader in global comment spammers.

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Block CIDR Ranges and Multiple IPs Using Webhost Manager WHM

Stewart White — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:11:20 +0000

Are you using WebHost Manager (WHM) with cPanel? If so, securing your websites and network assets against attacks network attacks is easy. In this simple tutorial we will show you how to add a CIDR range (or multiple IPs) to your iptables firewall rules.

The Resurgence of Snowshoe Spam

Stewart White — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:21:20 +0000

In such a coordinated effort the high volume of spam can become a Distributed Denial of Service attack collapsing mail servers and disrupting legitimate network traffic. Fortunately, monitoring live traffic will help the webmaster or network administrator quickly spot the traffic. Snowshoe spam is not safe, nor is it subtle.

Viet Nam Number Two in Spammers

Stewart White — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:10:32 +0000

The country of Viet Nam has moved from number six to number two on the Country IP Blocks list of global spammers. The rise in spam from Viet Nam has risen so dramatically during the past quarter that China could soon move from its top spot to second place. © 2009 – 2011, Stewart White. All [...]

Top Ten Global Spammers

Stewart White — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:03:56 +0000

The list of the Top Ten Global Spammers has shifted during the third quarter of 2009. An increase in spam of 41% since June 1, 2009 has also brought with it a significant change in the geographical locations of the spammers. Viet Nam has risen from Number 6, on May 13, 2009, to number two. [...]

Be Paranoid About Your Website Traffic

Stewart White — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:55:27 +0000

Tip #5 Be Paranoid About Your Website Traffic Website hacks happen on one of two ways, from external sources or internal sources. You’ve established strong passwords, validated user input, kept your software updated and limited viewable personal and business data. You’re paranoid and off to a great start. But now you need to monitor your [...]