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Spam snowballs in December ‘07
08/01/2008 by swordfish.
The latest figures from Irish hosting firm IE Internet show that 72 percent of all e-mail messages received by their clients in December were identified as spam, compared to just under 65 percent in November. The proportion of e-mails received with viruses attached also increased slightly between November and December, from 3.15 percent to 3.35 percent.
The figures showed that 26.75 percent of all spam originated from the US. France was second with 18.91 percent, followed by Japan (12.14 percent), the United Kingdom (7.52 percent) and Germany (5.82 percent).
Variants of the W32.Zafi virus made up just over 30 percent of all viruses received, with W32/Document-Maximus, W32/Netsky.BR and W32/Mytob.CQ also featuring in the top five.
Source: Yahoo News
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Nearly 95 percent of e-mail is junk
13/12/2007 by swordfish.
Nearly 95 percent of the e-mail sent in 2007 has been “spam,” junk advertising loathed by its recipients, according to a report released Wednesday by a US Web security firm.
The amount of junk e-mail has sky-rocketed despite a 2004 US CAN-SPAM Act that placed restrictions on sending unwanted messages and sanctioned penalties for “spammers,” according to California-based Barracuda Networks Inc.
Junk messages made up an estimated 70 percent of e-mail the year the act was passed, the Barracuda report indicates.
“The spam war is a continuous battle between spammers and security vendors,” said Barracuda chief executive Dean Drako. “Security vendors now require 24-by-7 defense operations to continuously monitor the Internet for new spam trends and distribute new defensive solutions immediately.”
Barracuda said it based its findings on analysis of more than a billion e-mail messages received daily by its approximately 50,000 customers worldwide.
Spammers cunningly hide their identities by routing e-mails through other people’s websites, blogs or computers, according to Barracuda.
Source: Yahoo News
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