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Cisco: Cyberattacks Growing, Looking More Legit
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| Cisco says its researchers saw a 90% growth in threats originating from
| legitimate domains, nearly double what was seen in 2007. And the volume of
| malware successfully propagated via e-mail attachments is declining -- over
| the past two years, the number of attachment-based attacks decreased by 50%
| from 2005 and 2006.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/155541/cyberattacks_increase.html?tk=rss_news
Cisco says that 90 percent of email is spam
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| A CISICO REPORT claims that more than 90 per cent of the email flowing around
| the net is spam created by armies of zombie botnets.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/056/1050056/cisco-says-that-90-percent-of-email-is-spam
Related:
Spam blights e-mail 15 years on
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| More than 90% of all e-mail is spam, according to anti-spam body Spamhaus.
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| "Spam is a real life arms race," said Mark Sunner, chief analyst at online
| security firm Message Labs.
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| Billions of spam e-mails are sent each day, blocking mail servers, slowing
| down networks, infecting people's computers with viruses, helping hijack
| machines and generally making the internet a painful experience for many.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7322615.stm
Bots rule in cyberspace
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| USA TODAY REPORTS that on an average day, 40 per cent of the 800 million
| computers connected to the Internet are bots used to send out spam, viruses
| and to mine for sensitive personal data.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/17/bots-rule-cyberspace
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