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InternetNews January 26, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Spammers Working to Regain Lost Ground Businesses can expect more malware this year as the spammers recover from the McColo take-down.
InternetNews November 12, 2008 Christopher Saunders	Media Spotlight Scatters a Botnet Host ISPs spring into action after a mainstream publication fingers a U.S. Web hosting company for its role in the global spam and malware epidemic.
InternetNews January 15, 2009 Richard Adhikari	The Web's Latest Threat: Smarter 'Zombies' Hacker-controlled PCs are outwitting security software - and are growing in number.
InternetNews May 26, 2009 Alex Goldman	Spam Now More Than 90% of All E-Mail Spammers are increasingly directing users to compromised social networks while botnets' influence grows, according to MessageLabs.
InternetNews December 12, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Web 2.0 and Cloud Tech: A Spammers' Paradise? With the proliferation of the cloud, spammers will find it becoming ever easier to ply their trade.
InternetNews February 12, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Botnet Operators Gearing Up for Valentine's Day Spammers try to play Cupid, with a dark twist.
InternetNews June 29, 2009 Alex Goldman	Botnet Blight: Hacked PCs Create 83.2% of Spam A MessageLabs report finds spammers are hard at work with increasingly sophisticated, attack-resistant botnets.
InternetNews March 7, 2008 Andy Patrizio	Is The Storm Worm Finally Blowing Over? A report by e-mail and content security firm Marshal claims that just six botnets are responsible for almost 90 percent of spam, but others in the spam filtering business disagree with the report's findings.
InternetNews March 18, 2011	Rustock Botnet Beaten Down by Microsoft On the heels of last year's successful takedown of another giant botnet, Microsoft just shut down a bigger and more sophisticated botnet this week.
InternetNews January 8, 2008 Andy Patrizio	Move Over Storm, There's a New Botnet in Town Nugache, a once-minor botnet, gets an extreme makeover and may be rivaling Storm in terms of size and scale of nuisance.
BusinessWeek June 16, 2011 Christopher S. Stewart	FireEye: Botnet Busters When Microsoft and Pfizer got fed up with the nastiest junk e-mail blaster on the Web, they called Silicon Valley's cybercrime vigilante.
InternetNews November 5, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Spammers Latch on to Obama Victory President-elect Barack Obama's campaign leveraged social networking all the way to victory in last night's election. But Obama's online presence has attracted some problems, too.
InternetNews March 18, 2010 Stuart J. Johnston	What Microsoft Learned From Botnet Takedown Even software giant Microsoft had trouble corralling the Waledac malware-spreading botnight.
InternetNews February 4, 2005 Jim Wagner	Spamhaus Accuses MCI of Hosting Spam Gangs Spamhaus Project blasts ISP over hosting policy. MCI counters that it's not in the business of censoring Internet content.
InternetNews May 19, 2009 Alex Goldman	Spammers Find 'Healthy' New Tactics With Acai Zombie networks and botnets are ramping up spam and using sophisticated filter penetration tactics -- to sell Acai drinks?
InternetNews August 10, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Stopping Spammers at The Point of Sale New research suggests going after the commerce sites listed in spam mail, but some have already been doing just that.
InternetNews January 26, 2011	Spam Volume Tumbles in January New report from security software vendor Symantec reveals that worldwide spam traffic fell to a two-year low in January, largely due to a sharp decline in pharmaceutical spam.
InternetNews August 23, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Storm Worm Gathers Strength on The Internet The Storm worm virus is still around, still causing trouble and stronger than ever six months later.
InternetNews November 26, 2008 Stuart J. Johnston	Microsoft Named in Top 5 Spam-Friendly Hosts Non-profit that tracks global spam says the software giant's Live services let spammers run wild.
InternetNews December 22, 2009 Andy Patrizio	Malware Writers Get Bold, Rent Datacenters Not content with infecting individual PCs, the criminals who run botnets are now setting up shop in legitimate data centers. How?
InternetNews November 20, 2009	Symantec's 'Unlucky 13' Security Trends for 2010 Hackers and malware purveyors are becoming more sophisticated, meaning computer users need to become wiser and more proactive, too.
InternetNews April 16, 2009 Alex Goldman	Spam's Carbon Footprint Worse Than 2.3M Cars In a new report, McAfee describes the price the planet itself pays for spam and makes a strong case for better spam filters.
InternetNews February 4, 2005 Jim Wagner	Experts Clarify ISP Spam Threat A recent surge in spam originating from ISP e-mail servers has the industry roiled, but an e-mail industry 'meltdown' isn't imminent.
InternetNews May 5, 2009 Alex Goldman	Researchers Seize Botnet, Peer Into Net's Dark Side For 10 days, a UCSB team monitored a botnet known for stealing credit card data and bank account credentials.
InternetNews April 8, 2005 Tim Gray	Gates Wants to Can Spam -- Fast Microsoft founder and chief software architect continues to push for eradication of spam.
InternetNews February 2, 2011	Rustock, Phishing Scams Boost Spam in January A flurry of new malicious spam campaigns and the return of the Rustock botnet elevated spam activity in latter half of January.
InternetNews January 18, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Did Christmas PCs Scare Spam? There was a 30 percent reduction in spam around the first week of January. The reason could be either a major botnet going offline or possibly new Christmas computers replacing older ones that were unknowingly infected.
InternetNews July 29, 2009	Spam Learns a New Language While spam levels are at their highest levels in years, much of it is the same - just translated for different countries.
InternetNews July 4, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	Image-based Spam on the Rise Among the lead culprits in the spam overflow is a new take on an old technique called image-based spam.
Bank Technology News December 2010 Michael Sisk	Endgame Systems Finds Botnets in the Cloud Security software provider Endgame Systems raised $29 million in the fall and simultaneously launched ipTrust, a product meant to detect and manage the harm caused by malware and botnets in cloud computing environments
PC Magazine August 20, 2008 Matthew D. Sarrel	There's a Bot in Your PC Aiding the rise of blended threats around the world, botnets are digging in and using your network as a base of operations.
InternetNews March 10, 2004 Roy Mark	Major E-Mail Providers Bare Can Spam Teeth AOL, EarthLink, Yahoo! and Microsoft use new federal law to go after kingpin spammers.
InternetNews July 1, 2009 David Needle	Google Spouts Scary Spam Stats Google digs deep to uncover the latest spam trends.
InternetNews September 24, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	Redmond Aims, Fires at Spammers' Accomplices Latest suit in Microsoft's spam fight takes aim at claims of bulletproof hosts for spammers.
InternetNews July 8, 2004 Jim Wagner	Experts Question UN's Anti-Spam Plan Wiping spam from the planet within two years is not going to happen, industry experts predict.
InternetNews April 15, 2010	Google Sees Spam Surging on Botnet Activity Google's Postini e-mail filtering and security service saw 30 percent spike in spam messages in March, highlighting the proliferation of botnets across the Internet.
InternetNews April 27, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Spammers Find New Ways Around Filters Image-based spammers now use image hosting to get around image filters.
InternetNews July 20, 2009	Microsoft, Sophos: Most Spam Comes From U.S. Where does spam come from? If you guessed the U.S., you'd be right.
InternetNews October 3, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Symantec Adds Bot Hunting to Managed Services By using a traceback method, Symantec can look for hidden botnets within a corporate network.
InternetNews April 13, 2007 Andy Patrizio	IDC: Spam To Rocket Past Legit E-Mail This Year A new report by IDC says that spam could surpass legitimate e-mail in terms of volume this year as unsolicited e-mail continues to explode and e-mail falls out of favor as a means of communication.
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PC Magazine March 11, 2004 Michael J. Miller	Fixing the E-Mail Mess I understand the appeal of "fighting spam with spam," but the practical implications are staggering.
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InternetNews March 17, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	Botnets on The Run? Security researchers have identified numerous botnets of zombies in recent days and in at least one case ended their reign of the undead.
InternetNews February 25, 2010	Microsoft Scores Win Against Waledac Botnet Microsoft obtains temporary injunction ordering shut down of 277 Internet domains suspected of orchestrating massive "Waledac" botnet, one of the nation's 10 largest.
InternetNews December 23, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Subject Lines Spammers Can't Resist Any time you see an e-mail with one of these subject lines, delete it without opening if you want to stay safe.
InternetNews May 24, 2005 Roy Mark	FTC Targets Zombie Spammers The Federal Trade Commission launched a new anti-spam campaign today targeting hijacked, or zombie, computers.