SPAM senders – Australian Honeynet project
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From our work with the Australian Honeynet Project:
http://dataviz.com.au/spam_animation.html
In a previous blog, we showed off some heatmaps that were supposed to help answer the question "Where does SPAM come from?". The problem with these maps, is that they are the combination of months of data without any respect to time.
So I set out to show the same information in a video to help answer a broader question "When and Where does SPAM come from?". Each red flash represents a moment in time that a point on the earth sent us some spam.
Without further ado, here is a video of about a week's worth of SPAM on the planet Earth:
When zooming in on Europe, notice the 'Blue Banana', which is a discontinuous corridor of urbanisation in Western Europe is once again evident, as it was with the European heatmap. From North West England to Milan, 90 million people live in this corridor, and evidently a fair few of them have computers that send us SPAM. They call it a banana because of it's curvature but I've no idea why its blue.
We were hoping to see a 'follow the sun' aspect emerge, thinking that as people turn their computers off and go to bed, less spam will come from infected hosts in that timezone. This sounds reasonable, but it really only shows up to a fairly small degree in the video. It seems people don't turn infected hosts off at night. SPAM it seems, is 24x7.
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