Spam Back With A Vengeance

Posted on 19-11-2006

Postini, the industry's leading provider of on-demand Integrated Message Management services making electronic communications like email, instant messaging (IM) and the web more compliant, productive, secure and reliable, today announced that spammers are out in full force, severely threatening corporate networks while seeking financial gain. Postini processed nearly 70 billion email connections from September to November, and saw a 59 percent spike in spam over that period. Unwanted email is currently 91 percent of all email, and over the past 12 months the daily volume of spam rose by 120 percent. Postini also saw a dramatic increase in overall email traffic with 10 billion more connections in October than in September.

"This dramatic rise in spam attacks on corporate networks has the Internet under a state of siege," said Daniel Druker, executive vice president of marketing at Postini. "Spammers are increasingly aggressive and sophisticated in their techniques, and protection from spam has become a front-burner issue again. Spam has evolved from a tool for nuisance hackers and annoying marketers to one for criminal enterprises."