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InternetNews October 24, 2007 Andy Patrizio	The 'Storm' That Keeps Blowing The Storm worm seems to unleash one new e-mail flood or denial of service attack every week. Why won't it go away?
InternetNews May 26, 2009 Alex Goldman	Spam Now More Than 90% of All E-Mail Spammers are increasingly directing users to compromised social networks while botnets' influence grows, according to MessageLabs.
InternetNews July 15, 2009	Spam Not So Profitable? Despite sending millions of messages each day, botnet operators and spam marketers rake in less than one might think.
InternetNews April 13, 2007 Andy Patrizio	IDC: Spam To Rocket Past Legit E-Mail This Year A new report by IDC says that spam could surpass legitimate e-mail in terms of volume this year as unsolicited e-mail continues to explode and e-mail falls out of favor as a means of communication.
InternetNews December 1, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Botnets Bouncing Back Despite McColo's takedown, observers say that major senders of spam and malware are returning - and may be stronger than ever.
InternetNews April 15, 2010	Google Sees Spam Surging on Botnet Activity Google's Postini e-mail filtering and security service saw 30 percent spike in spam messages in March, highlighting the proliferation of botnets across the Internet.
InternetNews March 18, 2010 Stuart J. Johnston	What Microsoft Learned From Botnet Takedown Even software giant Microsoft had trouble corralling the Waledac malware-spreading botnight.
InternetNews June 29, 2009 Alex Goldman	Botnet Blight: Hacked PCs Create 83.2% of Spam A MessageLabs report finds spammers are hard at work with increasingly sophisticated, attack-resistant botnets.
InternetNews January 15, 2009 Richard Adhikari	The Web's Latest Threat: Smarter 'Zombies' Hacker-controlled PCs are outwitting security software - and are growing in number.
InternetNews May 19, 2009 Alex Goldman	Spammers Find 'Healthy' New Tactics With Acai Zombie networks and botnets are ramping up spam and using sophisticated filter penetration tactics -- to sell Acai drinks?
InternetNews October 10, 2007 Andy Patrizio	YouTube's Not so Friendly Spam Bringing new meaning to the term "viral video," spammers are trying to sucker people by pretending to be legitimate YouTube messages.
InternetNews September 9, 2009	IRS Spoof Latest Cutwail Spam Scam McAfee's MX Logic says new botnet spam campaign targets paranoid taxpayers at more than 90,000 messages an hour.
InternetNews January 26, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Spammers Working to Regain Lost Ground Businesses can expect more malware this year as the spammers recover from the McColo take-down.
InternetNews February 27, 2007 Ed Sutherland	Storm Trojan Takes Social Measures Storm Trojan uses Web mail, blogs and message boards as conduits for spreading malware code.
InternetNews July 29, 2009	Spam Learns a New Language While spam levels are at their highest levels in years, much of it is the same - just translated for different countries.
InternetNews September 30, 2010	'Here You Have' Worm Takes Toll In September The new version of an old malware trick was the single largest security threat to enterprise IT departments last month.
InternetNews November 8, 2010	Spam Surges 28 Percent in October: AppRiver Hundreds of millions of spam emails were distributed every day in October and most of them originated in the United States.
PC World October 24, 2007 Erik Larkin	The Internet's Public Enemy Number One The Storm Worm has infected so many machines that it's now one of the most powerful supercomputers.
InternetNews February 12, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Botnet Operators Gearing Up for Valentine's Day Spammers try to play Cupid, with a dark twist.
InternetNews November 17, 2010	Stuxnet, Mobile Threats Top 3Q Malware Report Security software vendor McAfee's 3Q Threats Report takes note of some older malware scams from the past and some new and discouraging new ones.
PC Magazine August 1, 2007 Eileen Travers	The Botnet Mafia The online underworld is buying and selling control of your computer, but law enforcement is fighting back.
InternetNews February 2, 2011	Rustock, Phishing Scams Boost Spam in January A flurry of new malicious spam campaigns and the return of the Rustock botnet elevated spam activity in latter half of January.
PC Magazine March 2, 2005 Larry Seltzer	Who's Winning the Spam War? AOL says its users are getting less spam. Can this be true? Is this because of its technology, or the effective legal action it takes against spammers?
PC Magazine March 14, 2007 Larry Seltzer	A Storm Blows Through the Web The Storm Worm virus is old news. Where is it now?
InternetNews January 22, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Downadup: The Web's Next Big Threat? Experts blame a lack of patching and an advanced design for the rise of a worm that could outpace Storm.
InternetNews July 4, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	Image-based Spam on the Rise Among the lead culprits in the spam overflow is a new take on an old technique called image-based spam.
InternetNews January 26, 2011	Spam Volume Tumbles in January New report from security software vendor Symantec reveals that worldwide spam traffic fell to a two-year low in January, largely due to a sharp decline in pharmaceutical spam.
InternetNews July 13, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Now PDF Is The Format For Spam Delivery With image-based spam being effectively stopped, the scammers find a new way to get by your defenses.
InternetNews November 12, 2008 Christopher Saunders	Media Spotlight Scatters a Botnet Host ISPs spring into action after a mainstream publication fingers a U.S. Web hosting company for its role in the global spam and malware epidemic.
InternetNews September 13, 2010	Enterprises Recover From 'Here You Have' Virus One of the most potent email-based viruses in years had enterprise IT managers scrambling over the weekend to get their email servers back in top form.
InternetNews March 18, 2011	Rustock Botnet Beaten Down by Microsoft On the heels of last year's successful takedown of another giant botnet, Microsoft just shut down a bigger and more sophisticated botnet this week.
InternetNews April 27, 2009 Alex Goldman	Conficker Awakens With Scareware and Spam The new activity on the Conficker botnet shows that the criminal economy is functioning well.
InternetNews January 6, 2004 Robyn Greenspan	The Deadly Duo: Spam and Viruses, December 2003 High growth rates and record-breakers are usually celebrated, but not when it comes to spam and viruses. The spam volume rose from 42 percent of e-mail to 58 percent during 2003, and the year fell just short of being the worst on record for malware variants.
InternetNews December 23, 2008 Richard Adhikari	New E-holiday Card Virus Surfaces A new worm has emerged that could be much worse than the notorious Storm worm, which ruled the botnet world for nearly two years.
InternetNews July 1, 2009 David Needle	Google Spouts Scary Spam Stats Google digs deep to uncover the latest spam trends.
InternetNews December 20, 2005 Roy Mark	FTC: CAN-SPAM Is Working With a big helping hand from technology, the Federal Trade Commission say spam volume is declining. But are spammers staying away?
InternetNews February 25, 2010	Microsoft Scores Win Against Waledac Botnet Microsoft obtains temporary injunction ordering shut down of 277 Internet domains suspected of orchestrating massive "Waledac" botnet, one of the nation's 10 largest.
T.H.E. Journal August 2004	Spam Sleuth Enterprise Helping keep e-mail inboxes spam-free is the goal of this Blue Squirre offering, which is an anti-spam server solution that resides on an e-mail server or as a separate server to screen out spam before it reaches the internal mail server.
CIO November 1, 2003 Alice Dragoon	Be a Spam Slayer The ubiquitous awfulness of spam affords CIOs a rare opportunity to look good. Here's how CIOs can leap into the spam fray and keep e-mail viable and valuable for users.
InternetNews November 15, 2010	Malicious Spam Surges in 3Q: Report Kaspersky Lab report finds the volume of malicious spam soared in the third quarter, keeping security software firms and consumers on high alert.
InternetNews April 27, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Spammers Find New Ways Around Filters Image-based spammers now use image hosting to get around image filters.
PC Magazine December 28, 2006 Russell Morgan	The Art of Spam Here are some tips and tricks for fighting spam and spyware.
InternetNews April 2, 2008 Andy Patrizio	Volunteers For Spam Security vendor McAfee hires 50 volunteers to be spammed as much as they can manage, and then have them blog about it.
InternetNews April 1, 2008 Judy Mottl	Mobile Spam Threat Worth Keeping a Watchful Eye Right now carriers are doing the anti-spam lifting but things could change.
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InternetNews December 29, 2005 Roy Mark	AOL: Spam Down, Sophisticated Methods Up 'Spam mafia gangs' continue to mislead and deceive e-mail users.