December in the it department

While December for most people is a cheerful and happy month it is also has another side most commonly experienced by the IT department.

  • Spam rises notably
  • Hack attempts rise significantly (strangely the week after the Paris attacks they skyrocketed from French ip’s)
  • Server loads become more spastic, especially in retail

This year santa claus appears to be handing out free .biz extensions as a lot of spam (neatly formed and a great pain for the spam filters I might add) is arriving from freshly registered domains.

A quick example over the last 24 hours, for every ham e-mail there are 1.6 spam! (usually it’s below a 1:1 ratio)
spam 09-12-2015
Ham 09-12-2015