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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.
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InternetNews November 8, 2010	Spam Surges 28 Percent in October: AppRiver Hundreds of millions of spam emails were distributed every day in October and most of them originated in the United States.
InternetNews March 16, 2009 Alex Goldman	Report Says Spam Arms Race Escalating The bad guys are recovering from the loss of McColo and learning how to prevent being taken down so easily again.
InternetNews August 4, 2009	Businesses Not Immune to Botnets, Report Warns A new report delivers best practices on dealing with this spam vector.
InternetNews December 13, 2006 Brian Livingston	Has the 'SpamThru' Trojan Doubled Spam or Not? A Trojan horse named "SpamThru" that has reportedly taken over approximately 73,000 PCs.
InternetNews October 10, 2007 Andy Patrizio	YouTube's Not so Friendly Spam Bringing new meaning to the term "viral video," spammers are trying to sucker people by pretending to be legitimate YouTube messages.
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 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.
InternetNews April 1, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	The Red, White and Blue of Spam Nothing has changed since the Federal Can-Spam Act became law except that more of it seems to becoming from the U.S., according to one industry player's report.
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 1, 2008 Judy Mottl	Mobile Spam Threat Worth Keeping a Watchful Eye Right now carriers are doing the anti-spam lifting but things could change.
T.H.E. Journal August 2004	Spam Sleuth Enterprise Helping keep e-mail inboxes spam-free is the goal of this Blue Squirre offering, which is an anti-spam server solution that resides on an e-mail server or as a separate server to screen out spam before it reaches the internal mail server.
InternetNews January 12, 2011	U.S. Leads Pack in Spam Traffic in 4Q PCs and mobile devices in the U.S. accounted for nearly one in five spam messages in the fourth quarter, according to security software vendor Sophos.
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 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 November 29, 2005 Roy Mark	ISPs Making Progress on Spam Internet service providers are making progress in slowing spam, according to a recent Federal Trade Commission study.
InternetNews September 13, 2010	Enterprises Recover From 'Here You Have' Virus One of the most potent email-based viruses in years had enterprise IT managers scrambling over the weekend to get their email servers back in top form.
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.
PC World August 2002 Kevin McKean	Up Front: The Secret War for Your In-Box Efforts to combat spam, and how the spammers work around them. Also, efforts to legislate spam.
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.
T.H.E. Journal April 2004	NetCleanse, Spam Sleuth Protect From Viruses and Spam Solutions for protection from viruses and spam that promise to eliminate computer vulnerabilities.
PC World June 2005 Andrew Brandt	How Spam Slips Past Your Defenses Beware of slimy spam strategies.
The Motley Fool November 25, 2008 Tim Beyers	Facebook Just Quadrupled A California district court on Friday ruled in favor of Facebook in its case against spammer Adam Guerbuez and his company, Atlantis Blue Capital, for violations of the CAN-SPAM Act.
InternetNews May 5, 2004 Sharon Gaudin	Record Broken: 82% of U.S. Email is Spam Outdoing most analysts' worst predictions, spam accounted for 82 percent of all U.S. email last month.
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 January 15, 2009 Richard Adhikari	The Web's Latest Threat: Smarter 'Zombies' Hacker-controlled PCs are outwitting security software - and are growing in number.
PC World August 2003 Harry McCracken	Spam and Punishment Technology alone isn't canning spam -- it's time to bring in the feds.
PC World August 2002 Daniel Tynan	Spam Inc. In 2002, spam is not just a scourge, it's big business. Our investigator reveals who's behind the assault on your in-box and why stemming the tide won't be easy.
InternetNews July 1, 2004 Sharon Gaudin	U.S. Sending More than Half of All Spam While the flood of spam has increased sharply during the last six months, a new survey also shows that slightly more than half of it worldwide is coming out of the U.S.
InternetNews April 27, 2006 David Miller	Bouncebacks: The Hidden Cost of Spam A nasty side effect of spam and e-mailed viruses is costing companies an estimated $5 billion per year in IT resources, according to security services company IronPort.
Fast Company January 2003 Alison Overholt	If You Have Received This by Mistake... Email was supposed to make your life easier, faster, and cheaper -- not messier, uglier, and cheesier. Here's how to keep the spam off your plate.
InternetNews February 12, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Botnet Operators Gearing Up for Valentine's Day Spammers try to play Cupid, with a dark twist.
PC World January 24, 2007 Yardena Arar	Spam Explodes, but You Can Fight Back Changing the way you handle e-mail could reduce your junk-mail intake.
PC World April 2006 Tom Spring	Spam Mutates Junk ads are migrating to blogs, instant messages, and cell phones... Interview with a man who makes a living from sending spam mail.
New Architect December 2002 Lincoln D. Stein	Spammed I Am Why laws meant to fight spam aren't making a dent
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 October 30, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Spammers Hit MobileMe, Google Blogspots With new automated tools to help them, spammers are getting better at cracking CAPTCHA - a program that protects Web sites by generating and grading tests that humans can pass but computers cannot
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 December 8, 2009	Brazil Edges U.S. as Top Spammer in Cisco Report Spam volume in the U.S. decreased in 2009, though it's still enormous.
InternetNews September 9, 2009	IRS Spoof Latest Cutwail Spam Scam McAfee's MX Logic says new botnet spam campaign targets paranoid taxpayers at more than 90,000 messages an hour.
InternetNews May 14, 2004 Robyn Greenspan	The Deadly Duo: Spam and Viruses, April 2004 The spam volume is rising, e-mail trust is eroding, and viruses are rampant, but Internet users are sending more legitimate messages and CAN-SPAM is making a positive impact.
InternetNews November 15, 2010	Malicious Spam Surges in 3Q: Report Kaspersky Lab report finds the volume of malicious spam soared in the third quarter, keeping security software firms and consumers on high alert.
InternetNews April 27, 2009 Alex Goldman	Conficker Awakens With Scareware and Spam The new activity on the Conficker botnet shows that the criminal economy is functioning well.
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InternetNews May 23, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Learning to Live With Spam Pew research finds users have gotten smarter about spam and are learning to deal with it, in more ways than one.
InternetNews September 17, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Presidential Elections will Stuff Inboxes Is the amount of junk e-mail you receive daily driving you crazy? Wait until the hackers begin leveraging interest in the elections.
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