Score one for the security industry-a big one, a massively ginormous and temporary strike against spam. A slew of security companies and the Washington Post tracked massive amounts of spam back to one San Jose-based hosting company, now offline, and 75 percent of the world's spam went offline with it-for about 12 hours.

But hey, that's a pretty good leap right?

Alert after alert went out about spam operations tracing back to McColo Corp. servers. Complaints were made to the company, which gave lip service about addressing the issue before simply moving offending clients to different addresses.

Spam traced back to McColo servers covered pretty much all forms, from pharmaceutical spam to child pornography hosted there. Upon the evidence, two providers, Global Crossing and Hurricane Electric took the company offline.