CRTC, Access Communications join forces to jam spam

OTTAWA-GATINEAU – The CRTC and Access Communications worked together this summer to shut off a deluge of spam messages that were unknowingly being sent from a server owned by a Saskatchewan-based computer reseller.The Commission got involved after the Spam Reporting Centre received reports of spam messages routed through Access Communications. During its investigation, it was discovered that the spam messages were actually coming from a small business’s server, which used Access Communications as its ISP. This business’s server had become infected with malware, which had caused it to join the botnet ‘Ebury’.According to spamrankings.net, the Autonomous Systems (AS21804) for Access Communications, which...