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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.
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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.
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InternetNews January 18, 2011	Attack Toolkits Spark New Malware Strains Do-it-yourself malware kits are all the rage online and they're making life much easier for cyber-criminals looking to turn a quick buck.
InternetNews July 16, 2010	U.S. Snags Dubious Honor of Spam Leader The United States has again landed atop the list of countries that relay spam e-mail messages, according to software-security vendor Sophos, while the United Kingdom gains some ground.
InternetNews January 21, 2011	Phishing Scam Preys On McDonald's Customers A new phishing scam targeting McDonald's customers attempts to elicit credit card and other personal information for identity theft.
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 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 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 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.
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InternetNews October 21, 2010	Facebook Sues Alleged Spammers Facebook charges two individuals and a company with engaging in deceptive spam campaigns.
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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.
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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.
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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 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.
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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 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.
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Bank Systems & Technology March 7, 2005 Cynthia Ramsaran	Canning Spam Something as simple as spam can slow a bank's operations. For Providence-based Bank of Rhode Island, the volume of spam clogging employees' e-mail in-boxes became a drag on productivity.
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.
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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.
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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.
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InternetNews March 18, 2004 Robyn Greenspan	More Unwanted Messages Since CAN-SPAM While Pew Internet & American Life Project found that e-mail users have seen an increase in spam, the survey reports a decrease in pornographic messages.
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 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.