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Postini: 80 Pct of Email is Spam

Message monitoring and security firm Postini has released some figures about the state of messaging and email on the Internet for September 2006…and the news is more depressing than ever.

Postini monitors email and other communications for over 36,000 organizations, examining more than one billion messages a day in case they’re viruses, worms, phishing attacks, or plain-old spam. These days, it’s more accurate to describe Postini as churning through sludge to find the few pieces of legitimate communication still using the Internet: during September 2006, Postini found that spam, phishing and virus attacks accounted for 80 percent of all the email it monitored, an increase of 1.6 percent from August. Further, during the month the company tracked up to 50,000 computers simultaneously engaged in malicious activity at any given time, whether distributing spam, attempting to propagate worms or viruses, or engaging in phishing schemes or other attacks.

Postini: Over 3/4ths of 2005 Email Was Spam

Email filtering and antispam service Postini has published its annual message outlining the risks and threats businesses and individuals face from email and other forms of messaging. Their findings: from 75 to 80 percent of all email traffic they monitored was spam, 2.5 percent of inbound mail contained viruses, and the Sober worm alone accounted for more than 218 million virus-infected messages during 2005, making it the largest virus attack on record.

CAN SPAM Not Really Canning Spam

SecurityPipeline and TechWebNews have posted an intersting article about the CAN SPAM act.

The article says that “according to numbers released this week by Brightmail, Postini, and Commtouch, three providers of message filtering and anti-spam solutions, the amount of spam they’ve intercepted since the Jan. 1 debut of CAN-SPAM has increased, went unchanged, or fallen by an insignificant amount.”

Read the whole article at SecurityPipeline.

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