India ranked as the 2nd top spam-generating country
By siliconindia   |   Thursday, 15 July 2010, 19:37 IST   |    1 Comments
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India ranked as the 2nd top spam-generating country
Bangalore: Although considered to be the most cyber secure nation, India is ranked as the second most spam-producing country with a total of 7.7 percent of global spams. U.S. continues to be the number one spam polluter, piping out 15.2 percent of all global spam messages in the second quarter of 2010. This was published in the latest report by the IT security and control firm Sophos on top twelve spam-generating countries. U.S. being number one in the list of top twelve spam-relaying countries, had an increase from 13.1 percent in the first quarter of 2010. With a total output of 4.6 percent of the world's spam, UK ranked in the fourth place which was at the ninth place in the first quarter of this year. Brazil is in the third position with 5.5 percent of all spams. The top five also includes South Korea which generates 4.2 percent of global spams. Spam emails make up 97 percent of all emails received by business email servers. Used largely as a method for selling counterfeit or illicit goods, virtually all spam comes from malware infected computers (known as bots or zombies) that are controlled by 'bot herder' cybercriminals. The report warns that spam is becoming increasingly malicious, not just advertising unwanted goods, but spreading links to malicious websites and computer infecting malware. Graham Cluley, Senior Technology Consultant at Sophos said "Businesses and computer users must take a more proactive approach to spam filtering and IT security in order to avoid adding to this global problem."

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