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The Motley Fool February 7, 2006 Alyce Lomax	A Penny for Your Thoughts Time Warner's AOL and Yahoo!, both major providers of email services, are gearing up to try a new tactic -- giving companies the option of paying a small fee to, in effect, "certify" their email deliveries. For many companies, the plan may be the smartest way to make users feel secure.
InternetNews May 5, 2004 Sharon Gaudin	Record Broken: 82% of U.S. Email is Spam Outdoing most analysts' worst predictions, spam accounted for 82 percent of all U.S. email last month.
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 March 17, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	Botnets on The Run? Security researchers have identified numerous botnets of zombies in recent days and in at least one case ended their reign of the undead.
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 May 25, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Standards Group OKs E-Mail Validation Spec The Internet Engineering Task Force has adopted a vendor-developed specification designed to detect e-mail with bogus header information. The technology could help reduce spam and phishing attacks that clog Internet traffic.
InternetNews August 23, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Storm Worm Gathers Strength on The Internet The Storm worm virus is still around, still causing trouble and stronger than ever six months later.
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.
Wired August 23, 2007 John Robb	When Bots Attack If you want to bring down a country's information infrastructure and you don't want anyone to know who did it, the weapon of choice is a distributed denial of service attack.
Bank Systems & Technology February 18, 2010 Penny Crosman	Q&A: Alex Cox, Discoverer of Today's Massive Botnet Attack Data security expert Alex Cox tells how banks can protect themselves against the Kneber botnet he discovered, which has infected 75,000 computers at 2,500 organizations around the world, and which is still active.
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.
Bank Technology News December 2010 Michael Sisk	Endgame Systems Finds Botnets in the Cloud Security software provider Endgame Systems raised $29 million in the fall and simultaneously launched ipTrust, a product meant to detect and manage the harm caused by malware and botnets in cloud computing environments
InternetNews August 4, 2010	Spam Looking More Like Legitimate Email With spam levels surging, it's also becoming harder for users to identify it, according to a new survey.
CRM September 2012 Judith Aquino	Avoid the Spam Folder How marketers can save outbound emails from the dreaded fate.
BusinessWeek August 13, 2009 Joel Schectman	Computer Hacking Made Easy Botnet attacks like the one that took down Twitter are becoming so easy and cheap, almost anyone can do it.
InternetNews May 18, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner	Estonia Under Russian Cyber Attack? Data by a security research firm clearly shows that a full-scale assault is under way, but the attackers' identity and location is still uncertain.
Wired November 2006 Scott Berinato	Attack of the Bots The latest threat to the Net: autonomous software programs that combine forces to perpetrate mayhem, fraud, and espionage on a global scale. How one company fought the new Internet mafia - and lost.
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 February 4, 2011 Stuart J. Johnston	Hotmail Adds Support for Multiple Aliases Microsoft gives users of its free online email system "aliases" so that they can have disposable email addresses.
The Motley Fool July 8, 2004 Seth Jayson	Your Email Up for Grabs? An odd court decision could let just about anyone read your email, with no fear of punishment. If email providers, and the government, can follow the letter of this ruling, say goodbye to email privacy altogether.
InternetNews December 22, 2009 Andy Patrizio	Malware Writers Get Bold, Rent Datacenters Not content with infecting individual PCs, the criminals who run botnets are now setting up shop in legitimate data centers. How?
InternetNews August 14, 2009	Twitter Used as Botnet Control As bot herders learn to exploit legitimate sites, researchers warn that IT managers will need to monitor social media closely.
InternetNews July 18, 2005 Tim Gray	Trend Micro Stops Spam at The Network Antivirus vendor Trend Micro began rolling out Network Reputation Services, a portfolio of network-based, anti-spam services designed to complement the company's existing anti-spam offerings.
The Motley Fool January 26, 2004 Selena Maranjian	An End to Spam? We may be rejoicing in 2006, thanks to Bill Gates. Gates alluded to a "magic solution" that his team is working on to address the problem of unwanted email, or spam. Better still, he expects this solution to be in place soon.
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.
PC Magazine August 20, 2008 Matthew D. Sarrel	There's a Bot in Your PC Aiding the rise of blended threats around the world, botnets are digging in and using your network as a base of operations.
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.
BusinessWeek October 2, 2006 Ben Elgin	Click Fraud's Next Frontier If you place an advertisement on Google or Yahoo!, and you're paying the search giants each time somebody clicks, it would be nice to know that the clicker is a human being who might actually purchase your product. Unfortunately, there are no such assurances.
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 January 26, 2009 Richard Adhikari	New Botnets Emerge as Older Peers Limp Along A changing of the guard has taken place among spam-spewing botnets. Who are some of the ones to watch?
Bank Technology News August 2007 Joe Bernik	The Harm Behind Spam SPAM has now become the favorite tool of online criminals.
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 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 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 July 27, 2007 Ray Everett-Church	Spam: You've Come a Long Way, Baby A report on the recent FTC 'Spam Summit,' and a look back at a similar event 10 years ago.
InternetNews November 5, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Spammers Latch on to Obama Victory President-elect Barack Obama's campaign leveraged social networking all the way to victory in last night's election. But Obama's online presence has attracted some problems, too.
The Motley Fool December 23, 2004 Tim Beyers	Free AOL AOL joins Yahoo!, Google, and Hotmail in offering free email. But isn't it too late? Struggles continue to be a plague on Time Warner's operating results. If it keeps up, the media giant may be forced to hand AOL a pink slip of its own.
InternetNews November 20, 2009	Symantec's 'Unlucky 13' Security Trends for 2010 Hackers and malware purveyors are becoming more sophisticated, meaning computer users need to become wiser and more proactive, too.
The Motley Fool April 12, 2005 Alyce Lomax	Spam on the Side? It's not yet time for the big-name ISPs and email providers to get comfy. Spam continues to be a big, bulky pain, and when it comes to scams like phishing, it's downright dangerous.
InternetNews June 22, 2010	Botnet Still King of Malware Underworld Latest report from Gartner finds that while more sophisticated malware and phishing scams will proliferate, botnets will still be the top challenge for security experts for the foreseeable future.
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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.
Fast Company January 2003 Alison Overholt	If You Have Received This by Mistake... Email was supposed to make your life easier, faster, and cheaper -- not messier, uglier, and cheesier. Here's how to keep the spam off your plate.
Fast Company June 2006 Caroline Wilbert	Get Out of the In Crowd Michael Linenberger, author of Total Workday Control, offers advice on how to avoid drowning in email.
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Bank Technology News July 2008 Rebecca Sausner	Could the U.S. Be the Next Estonia? Gadi Evron, former Israeli Government Internet Security Operations Manager, went to Estonia during the crippling DDOS attacks last May. Here he talks about whether the U.S. is vulnerable to such an attack, and the role banks and home computers play in protecting critical infrastructure.
InternetNews July 30, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Trend Micro Readies Security SaaS Antivirus developer Trend Micro said it's ready to take on some big names with its new SecureCloud Software-as-a-Service security platform for businesses.