Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam - Not So Lov-er-ly Spam

Symantec released its latest report on spam. July’s results were a 12% increase, year-on-year, to 78% of all messages. As expected the ‘big’ public interest events are still a big trend, so the Olympics and the US presidential race are up there along with ones targeting people’s fears for the economy and the old favourites of losing weight and superfoods.

One of the other trends that was ‘emerging’ before and is now becoming an increased trend is to hijack legitimate websites which then host the malware. Businesses should start looking, not just if their website is up-and-running but also that it hasn’t been silently hacked and is now being used as a tool for cyber-criminals. Cross site scripting has been in the news a lot over the past few months - companies cannot afford to think it won’t happen to them, they need to change their policies today to ensure that they do not become part of the problem.

August 11, 2008 | Filed Under Spam 

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