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Spammers move from China to Russia - Tue, 24 Feb 2009 GMT
Stricter rules on registering .cn domains leads to increase in malicious .ru domains.

EU report suggests 95% of email is spam - Mon, 26 Jan 2009 GMT
Less than five per cent of all SMTP connections result in an email being delivered into a user's inbox.

Project Honey Pot 'celebrates' billionth spam message - Tue, 15 Dec 2009 GMT
Facebook about to become most phished organization.

Botnets becoming more robust - Tue, 15 Dec 2009 GMT
Zeus botnet used Amazon's in-the-cloud service to control bots.

Legal success against notorious spammers - Tue, 01 Dec 2009 GMT
Atkinson to pay huge fine; Ralsky to spend years in prison.

VB calls for collaboration amongst anti-spam vendors - Mon, 30 Nov 2009 GMT
VB finds that, when it comes to spam filtering, a combined effort outperforms individual products.

Webmail data leak hype deflated - Fri, 09 Oct 2009 GMT
Rumoured phishing explosion grabs headlines, reality much more mundane.

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