School email's out across UK
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| The system was being upgraded because spam had been overloading and
| slowing its system. Between May 2006 and February 2007 the number
| of messages being passed through its school email service had
| increased almost fourfold, from 550 messages per minute to 2,000
| messages per minute. About 85 per cent of these were spam, it said
| in a refreshingly informative explanation of the outage.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/09/rm_email/
Gates said SPAM would vanish by 2006. Instead we have over 100 million
Windows PCs that are controlled by criminals.
Yesterday:
SEC goes after stock spammers, hackers
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| "When spam clogs our mailboxes, it's annoying. When it rips
| off investors, it's illegal and destructive," SEC Chairman
| Christopher Cox said in a statement.
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http://news.com.com/2100-7348_3-6165804.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
Related:
Spam Made Up 94% Of All E-Mail In December
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| "The major event in communications security is the emergence of
| botnets. This has changed the game, the dynamics, and economics
| of the Internet security marketplace. When the bad guys can now
| harness more than a million computers around the world and use
| them to push an increasing amount of attacks, that's a major
| change."
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http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=4H4VB4FGNIKEWQSNDLRSKHSCJUNN2JVN?articleID=197001430
http://tinyurl.com/39zfap
Botnet 'pandemic' threatens to strangle the net
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| Cerf estimated that between 100 million and 150 million of the
| 600 million PCs on the internet are under the control of hackers,
| the BBC reports.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/
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