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Forrester Research estimates that about 2.3 billion spam messages are sent each day and Radicati Group says that junk messages represent about 45% of all e-mails sent daily. Radicati Group further projects that this number is expected to grow to 70% by 2007. Read the rest of this entry »
Security threats are now not limited to desktops and laptops. An entirely new genre of security threats are creating ripples in the mobile phone industry. The world’s first mobile phone virus named Cabir spread to the United States from Philippines in February 2005 and it has been found in about 15 variations so far. Cabir spreads through Bluetooth wireless technology and drains the batteries of infected phones. While the initial damage from the original Cabir virus was minor, a later virus family called Skulls, which carries Cabir, destroyed some files on infected phones. Read the rest of this entry »
One of the Russia’s largest antivirus software developer firms Kaspersky labs has recorded an increase in major virus “epidemics” to 46 percent in 2004 from 35 percent in 2003. Read the rest of this entry »