SecurityFocus: Botnets Likely Behind Jump in Spam

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via SecurityFocus.

[snip]

A significant rise in the global volume of spam in the past two months
has security analysts worried that bot nets are increasingly being used
by spammers to stymie network defenses erected to curtail bulk e-mail.

Estimates of the magnitude of the increase in junk e-mail vary, but
experts agree that an uncommon surge in spam is occurring. On the low
side, Symantec, the owner of SecurityFocus, has found that average spam
volume has increased almost 30 percent for its 35,000 clients in the
last two months. Others have seen much more significant jumps: Spam
black list maintainer Total Quality Management Cubed has seen a 450
percent increase in spam in two months, and the amount of spam filtered
out every week by security software maker Sunbelt Software has more
than tripled compared to six months ago.

[snip]

More:
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11420

TQMcube graph:
http://tqmcube.com/tide.php

- ferg


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