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Spam levels mysteriously fall 30% in a week

Posted January 16, 2007 by phil & filed under commerce, spam.

This is an amazing statistic, particularly after knowing how much email was just spam as of last month, the level of spam is down 30% from last week. “After rising steadily for many years spam levels have mysteriously dropped 30% in the first week of January. According to SoftScan the most plausible explanation is that… Read more »

Sending 10,000 spam emails a minute

Posted January 5, 2006 by phil & filed under spam.

Earlier in the week I talked about the biggest security worry home users should have is that their systems can be hijacked, taken over, and used as a zombie to blindly send out spam emails. I had no idea how many a standard home DSL setup could handle, but learned from this article that it’s… Read more »