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InternetNews July 20, 2009	Microsoft, Sophos: Most Spam Comes From U.S. Where does spam come from? If you guessed the U.S., you'd be right.
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 December 2, 2010	Targeted Malware, Spam Will Surge in '11 Security software vendor predicts more malware campaigns will use social media to target mobile devices, apps and industry-specific systems.
InternetNews July 13, 2010	New Malware Scam Picks On eBay Fans Hackers know where people like to go online and what brands the average Internet user responds to when they conceive their illicit plots. This time around, it's eBay users they've targeted.
InternetNews January 12, 2011	U.S. Leads Pack in Spam Traffic in 4Q PCs and mobile devices in the U.S. accounted for nearly one in five spam messages in the fourth quarter, according to security software vendor Sophos.
InternetNews April 11, 2005 Tim Gray	Americans Learning to Live With Spam Agita E-mail users say they are more accepting of spam. Doesn't make it less painful though.
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 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.
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.
InternetNews March 25, 2010	Symantec: China Is Tops in Targeted Malware Symantec's latest report pinpoints China as the leading source of malware tailored to hoodwink execs in specific industries.
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 December 8, 2009	Brazil Edges U.S. as Top Spammer in Cisco Report Spam volume in the U.S. decreased in 2009, though it's still enormous.
InternetNews February 2, 2010	Facebook Seen as Biggest Threat to IT Security New survey from Sophos highlights concerns about using social media sites inside the enterprise.
InternetNews January 27, 2005 Jim Wagner	Postini: Spam Building Muscle Trends in e-mail security threats in 2004 point to more difficulties in 2005.
InternetNews July 1, 2009 David Needle	Google Spouts Scary Spam Stats Google digs deep to uncover the latest spam trends.
InternetNews July 23, 2010	Cisco Tags U.S. as Spam Leader In its 2010 mid-year security report, networking heavyweight Cisco concluded that the United States ranks No. 1 in originating spam messages, and warns on IT policy compliance.
InternetNews December 29, 2004 Tim Gray	Viruses Crowd Internet in 2004 A banner year for virus writers meant a bad year for Internet users, but much of the damage was preventable.
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.
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 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.
PC World August 2003 Harry McCracken	Spam and Punishment Technology alone isn't canning spam -- it's time to bring in the feds.
InternetNews August 3, 2010	Most Don't Object to Cyber Spying: Report A survey by a prominent security software firm reveals that most people don't mind if the government uses cyber spying techniques to keep tabs on our enemies.
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 February 24, 2004 Sharon Gaudin	Viruses Blamed for Expected 80% Spam Saturation by Q3 Spam is expected to make up 80 percent of all email by the third-quarter of this year. And analysts blame it largely on the open proxies created by viruses, like Sobig and MyDoom.
InternetNews June 10, 2005 Tim Gray	Trojan Spreads in Michael Jackson Spotlight British anti-virus firm Sophos says hackers are slamming computers around the world with a Trojan virus by sending e-mails claiming Michael Jackson has tried to kill himself.
BusinessWeek September 13, 2004 Bruce Einhorn	Now Spam Is Being Outsourced Spammers are flocking to Korea and China. Will governments take action?
InternetNews May 23, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Learning to Live With Spam Pew research finds users have gotten smarter about spam and are learning to deal with it, in more ways than one.
Entrepreneur October 2003 Geoff Williams	The Father of Spam Half of all e-mail sent today is spam. What does the man who started it all think of it now?
InternetNews January 19, 2011	Enterprises Weigh Social Nets' Risks, Rewards New survey by security software firm Sophos reveals most companies allow employees to visit social networking sites despite obvious risks.
InternetNews July 22, 2010	Shortened URLs Are Spam Magnets: Gartner Abbreviated URLs are standard operating procedure on Twitter and everyone loves Twitter. So it's no surprise hackers are embedding malware in shortened URLs to evade security apps.
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.
InternetNews December 29, 2005 Roy Mark	AOL: Spam Down, Sophisticated Methods Up 'Spam mafia gangs' continue to mislead and deceive e-mail users.
InternetNews September 21, 2010	Twitter Hit With Mouseover Malware Attack Twitter hit with attack that sees hackers embed JavaScript within URLs in tweets that display a pop-up directing users to malicious or pornographic websites.
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.
Wall Street & Technology January 23, 2007	Stock Spam Surges Culling numbers from its SenderBase e-mail traffic monitoring network, Ironport claims that stock spam rose from 10% of all spam in 2005 to 30% in 2006.
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 30, 2007 Andy Patrizio	SMBs Playing The Ostrich When It Comes To Security Small to medium-sized businesses often don't have the security policies, systems or know-how in place of their larger enterprise brethren, and that's a lurking danger.
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.
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 May 28, 2009 Alex Goldman	Small Businesses Under Siege by Spammers Real-world data compiled shows that money scams are growing as the recession continues - and small firms aren't exempt.
PC Magazine August 16, 2006 John C. Dvorak	John C. Dvorak v25n15 The only cure for spam is for people never to buy anything from a spammer, but apparently there are always dummies who do.
InternetNews January 10, 2011	PayPal Fends Off Latest Phishing Campaign An unsolicited email attempts to con users into returning a form with their PayPal account login and password information.
InternetNews July 1, 2004 Sharon Gaudin	U.S. Sending More than Half of All Spam While the flood of spam has increased sharply during the last six months, a new survey also shows that slightly more than half of it worldwide is coming out of the U.S.
InternetNews February 9, 2010	McAfee Finds Spike In Malware From China A new study by security software vendor McAfee finds a growing number of cyber attacks originating in China and predicts even more malware scams will target fans of popular social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.
InternetNews October 21, 2009	Auto Industry a Spam Magnet: Study Panda Security survey finds that only one-tenth of one percent of all e-mail received by auto industry is legitimate.
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?
InternetNews January 12, 2010	Who Were the Big Names in Spam Bait in 2009? McAfee report highlights the Top 25 men and women used as bait in spam mail in 2009.
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.