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Conficker likely to cause rise in spam levels
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| Commtouch’s chief technology officer, Amir Levy, warns that new spam
| detection methods beyond traditional content filtering must be employed to
| block the flood of spam that the massive botnet created by the Conficker worm
| is capable of sending.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/24474/1231/
Last week:
Spam overwhelms e-mail messages
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| More than 97% of all e-mails sent over the net are unwanted, according to a
| Microsoft security report.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7988579.stm
Related:
Malware, Spam, and other Net Pests Rev Up
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| The number of malware detections has grown by almost half a million since the
| end of the year, jumping from 500,000 total detections to 900,000.
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| "I have a nasty feeling that the situation is getting worse, not better",
| says Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer for the security vendor.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/147701/malware_spam_and_other_net_pests_rev_up.html
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
Botnets Running Rampant
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| How much money is being stolen by cybercriminals? No one knows, and no one
| even knows how to go about coming up with that number, IronPort's Peterson
| said.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/144489/botnets_running_rampant.html
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