Cleveland Clinic wins one way, then another, in SpamRankings.net

1	(4)	AS 22093 CCF-NETWORK	US
2	(-)	AS 27609 USC-UNIVERSITY-HOSPITAL	US
3	(1)	AS 25611 NSLIJHS	US
4	(-)	AS 19335 APRIA-HEALTHCARE	US
5	(2)	AS 9208 WIN	BE
6	(7)	AS 122 U-PGH-NET-AS	US

Cleveland Clinic took #1 in the May 2012 worldwide medical SpamRankings.net. So Cleveland Clinic's AS 22093 won the worldwide medical rankings by spamming the most of any medical organization worldwide, as found in CBL blocklist data. Boo Cleveland Clinic!

Yet AS 22093 CCF-NETWORK dropped like a rock on 7 May 2012, going to zero the next day, and staying there. So Cleveland Clinic also was most improved for May 2012 medical organizations. Congratulations, Cleveland Clinic!

This feat of IT security cleanliness shouldn't have been hard for CCF, since AS 22093 CCF-NETWORK seems to have had a Lethic problem, which CBL saw on no more than 3 hosts. Sure, there could have been more hosts infected than that, and CBL just might not have seen them all. But 3 is far smaller than what CBL sees for a typical botnet infection, so the number of infected hosts probably was quite small. Which means it should have been easy for CCF to find them all and fix them.

Hm, maybe being #4 last month gave CCF some incentive?

-jsq