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Insurance & Technology August 25, 2004 Julie Gallagher	Extinguishing Spam Flare-ups After several false starts, United Fire & Casualty finds success with MX Logic's Email Defense Service.
InternetNews March 7, 2008 Andy Patrizio	Is The Storm Worm Finally Blowing Over? A report by e-mail and content security firm Marshal claims that just six botnets are responsible for almost 90 percent of spam, but others in the spam filtering business disagree with the report's findings.
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 September 16, 2009 Larry Barrett	Hackers Targeting Web 2.0 Sites at Alarming Rate Security software vendor Websense claims 95 percent of user-generated comments on blogs and message boards are either spam or contain malicious code.
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.
PC Magazine March 2, 2005 Cade Metz	The Spam Stoppers If you don't have a spam filter or you're having trouble running the one you do have, you might consider outsourcing the task.
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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 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 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?
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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 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 April 16, 2009 Alex Goldman	Spam's Carbon Footprint Worse Than 2.3M Cars In a new report, McAfee describes the price the planet itself pays for spam and makes a strong case for better spam filters.
InternetNews January 18, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Did Christmas PCs Scare Spam? There was a 30 percent reduction in spam around the first week of January. The reason could be either a major botnet going offline or possibly new Christmas computers replacing older ones that were unknowingly infected.
InternetNews March 16, 2009 Alex Goldman	Report Says Spam Arms Race Escalating The bad guys are recovering from the loss of McColo and learning how to prevent being taken down so easily again.
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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.
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InternetNews August 13, 2010	Malware Discovered on Another Red Cross Website The Red Cross of Serbia was targeted by hackers who injected malicious JavaScript files onto several of the organization's web pages.
InternetNews January 3, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	CAN-SPAM in Effect? Not a chance says MX Logic, which reports that most spam is not playing by the CAN-SPAM rules.
InternetNews January 8, 2008 Andy Patrizio	Move Over Storm, There's a New Botnet in Town Nugache, a once-minor botnet, gets an extreme makeover and may be rivaling Storm in terms of size and scale of nuisance.
InternetNews December 23, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Subject Lines Spammers Can't Resist Any time you see an e-mail with one of these subject lines, delete it without opening if you want to stay safe.
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Reason November 2004 Jeff A. Taylor	Spamming Voters Political spam has steadily increased during the election year, suggesting that it could make up 5 percent of all spam going into 2005. Such spam is exempt from the requirements of the CAN-SPAM Act, which regulates only "commercial" messages.
InternetNews October 8, 2009	McAfee FOCUS 09: Anatomy of a Scareware Scam McAfee peels back the skin of an infamous scareware company, exposing all the intricate inner workings from publicly available data.
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.
The Motley Fool July 31, 2009 Anders Bylund	McAfee Shows Internet Security Is Hot, Hot, Hot! Email security looks like the hot ticket to instant riches -- if you're starting a business. Investing is another matter.
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InternetNews April 10, 2009 Sean Michael Kerner	Conficker's 'Kido' Spinoff Gets Busy Spamming Report says one bot can send up to 80,000 e-mails a day.
InternetNews December 14, 2009	Security Firm Finds Spammers Thriving in U.S. McAfee's December spam report finds spammers are still operating with relative impunity despite looming six-year anniversary of FTC's Can-Spam Act.
InternetNews February 2, 2010	Spammers Pedaling Haiti, World Cup Scams Latest analysis finds spike in malware hidden in messages about major world news events.
InternetNews August 10, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Stopping Spammers at The Point of Sale New research suggests going after the commerce sites listed in spam mail, but some have already been doing just that.
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.
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