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2006-11-20 Science & Technology

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Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2006-11-20 11:51|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Mebbe they're letting the UN run their networks...

Posted by .com 2006-11-20 13:25|| 2006-11-20 13:25|| Front Page Top

#2 I blame Bush!

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-11-20 14:14|| 2006-11-20 14:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Spam hitting our company firewalls (in CA) is up over 500% in the last two months and continues to increase rapidly. No one is sure why.

Posted by DoDo 2006-11-20 16:38|| 2006-11-20 16:38|| Front Page Top

#4
30 day pattern shows no short term anomaly.

Posted by KBK 2006-11-20 16:47|| 2006-11-20 16:47|| Front Page Top

#5 There was a surge in spambots a month or two back.

Posted by Pappy 2006-11-20 17:21|| 2006-11-20 17:21|| Front Page Top

#6 We got blocked to our Yahoo mail accounts at work. Supposedly got something like 40,000 hits in a few hours last Friday or so.

Posted by BA 2006-11-20 20:55|| 2006-11-20 20:55|| Front Page Top

#7 DAMN COMMIES!!!!!

Via LGF:

If youve been experiencing a sudden surge of soul-numbing email spam in your Inbox, heres the reason. A scary little article at eWeek looks at the huge number of compromised (i.e. virus/worm infected) servers, and what the spammers are making them do: Pump-and-Dump Spam Surge Linked to Russian Bot Herders. (Hat tip: Tom.)

Posted by anonymous2u 2006-11-20 21:11|| 2006-11-20 21:11|| Front Page Top

#8 I've had a steady flood of cyrillic-lettered spam - WTF good can that do someone? I can't even read it before I delete it

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-11-20 21:27|| 2006-11-20 21:27|| Front Page Top

#9 It's due to GLOBAL WARMING.

Posted by DMFD 2006-11-20 21:56|| 2006-11-20 21:56|| Front Page Top

#10 Article Referenced by LGF

According to data from Barracuda Networks, an enterprise security appliance vendor in Mountain View, Calif., there has been a 67 percent increase in overall spam volume and a 500 percent increase in image spam since Aug. 2006.

Posted by KBK 2006-11-20 23:03|| 2006-11-20 23:03|| Front Page Top

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