Spam Made Up 94% Of All E-Mail In December
Legitimate e-mail now constitutes a rounding error when compared with spam, thanks to a standing army of more than a million zombie PCs waging war on in-boxes worldwide on any given day.
Some 94% of all e-mail last December was spam, according to Postini’s annual communications intelligence report, which the managed e-mail security company released today.
In 2006, the volume of spam rose 147% by Postini’s measure. The company attributes the surge in spam to PCs that have been commandeered by cybercriminals without the knowledge of their owners.
In and of itself, this sounds like the same mixture of marketing and reporting that messaging security firms have engaged in for years. And it is that. But that doesn’t diminish the real difficulties businesses face in coping with spam.
