Study: 95 percent of all e-mail sent in 2007 was spam
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| There was a time--2004 to be precise--when spam "only" consumed 70 percent of
| all e-mail. Those were the good old days. Today, as Barracuda Networks'
| annual spam report shows, upwards of 95 percent of all e-mail is spam. In
| 2001, the number was 5 percent.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9831556-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Recent:
Despite filters, tidal wave of spam bears down on e-mailers
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| "Two years from now, spam will be solved."
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| — Microsoft's (MSFT) Bill Gates, 2004, World Economic Forum in Switzerland
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| [...]
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| "I never said it would be solved," Gates said in an interview with USA TODAY
| last month. "I said it would be substantially reduced, and in fact it has
| been reduced a lot."
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http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2007-11-22-spam_N.htm?csp=N008
Related:
Microsoft is the world's biggest cause of zombie remailers
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| In China, it would take about one and one-half years wages (for the
| average Chinese) to buy a legitimate copy of Windows Vista. If you
| could find it here.
|
| Microsoft is the biggest cause of zombie remailers in the world,
| because they make noises, but do not do anything to address the
| real digital inequities in the world.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38202
The end of Windows, or a security expert gives up
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| And then go and warn others to do the same. Windows is defeated - its days
| are over. It carries the worm inside. So whatever will happen next: RIP,
| Windows.
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http://wolfgang.lonien.de/?p=456
In zombies we trust
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| A little over a year ago, I wrote an editorial where in back-of-the-envelope
| style (.pdf) I estimated that perhaps 15-30% of all privately owned computers
| were no longer under the sole control of their owner. In the intervening
| months, I received a certain amount of hate mail but in those intervening
| months Vint Cert guessed 20-40%, Microsoft said 2/3rds, and IDC suggested
| 3/4ths. It is thus a conservative risk position to assume that any random
| counterparty stands a fair chance of being already compromised.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=661
Over 50% of corporate desktops infected with malware: IronPort
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| The report also reveals that more than 50% of corporate desktops
| worldwide are infected with some type of spyware with the rate of
| infection as high as 70% in the United States. Trojans or malicious
| system monitors represented over 7% of the infections. Rootkits and
| trick loaders, which reinstall spyware and other obfuscation techniques,
| make remediation very difficult thus prevention is the key to stopping
| these threats.
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http://www.crn-india.com/breakingnews/stories/66870.html
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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