THE DEADLY DUO – SPAM AND VIRUSES

Spam volume spiked upward a full 19 percent from October to November, accounting for 88 percent of all e-mail sent in November, according to e-mail security vendor Postini. Of the 6.9 billion messages processed by Postini in November, nearly 6.1 billion qualified as instances of malicious spam, phishing, viruses, and so-called “directory harvest” attacks, which are attempts to hijack entire corporate e-mail directories via enterprise servers for spamming purposes. That spike in spam activity went above the expected seasonal increase during the holiday shopping season, said Steve Kahan, vice president of Postini. Source: www.clickz.com/stats/sectors/email/article.php/3447341