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Re: [Full-disclosure] Anyone have a reason for 2x the email flow today?
- To: <Ring-of-Fire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "funsec" <funsec@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Full-Disclosure" <full-disclosure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <incidents@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Anyone have a reason for 2x the email flow today?
- From: "James C. Slora Jr." <james.slora@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 18:01:58 -0500
The cause was massive cross-posting to security lists. Just kidding.
Are your numbers pre-filtering or post-filtering?
Pre-filtering counts are really spam counts, so if your numbers are
pre-filtering you are just seeing a basic bot-driven spam run. And basic
bot-driven spam runs are far more dramatic than they were a couple of years ago.
I see pre-filtering peaks like that several times per month. December 3 was my
most recent spike, with 440,000 messages compared to 270,000 on the 2nd and 4th.
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