Yesterday, we published a story about Web hosting firm McColo being knocked offline after being accused by the computer security community of serving as a gateway to organizations engaged in spam activity. In trying to get a sense of the activity attributed to McColo, I put together a flow chart, or mind map, showing McColo’s relationship to various sites associated with botnet activity, spam, pharmacy domains, etc. I created the flow chart with the excellent and gratis FreeMind software. I’ve included a screen shot for those who don’t have or want this software installed (click on the image to enlarge it). For those who do have FreeMind installed, check out this file, which allows you to click any arrow in the graphic and view some of the source data for those citations. Others can view the source material at the end of this post. The upper right-hand section of the