This week, the world marks an anniversary that has changed the face — and other anatomical regions — of email inboxes everywhere: the first known spam email was sent 30 years ago on Saturday.
…These days spamming is a sophisticated operation that affects millions and jams ill-prepared email inboxes.The percentage of spam sent to account holders on Gmail - the email service offered by Google - quadrupled between 2004 and 2008, climbing from 20 percent to around 80 per cent.”To give you some sense of scale, we have tens of millions of users worldwide,” Gmail’s Jason Freidenfelds said, adding that only about one per cent of spam gets through Gmail’s spam-filtering system, according to user feedback.Spam methodology has also changed in the past 30 years.Whereas the sender of the first spam had to type in each recipient’s address individually, today the job is often done remotely using cyber-monsters called botnets.Botnets have hijacked around 30 per cent of personal and office computers with inadequate security features and use them to dispatch thousands of spams each day, Mr Templeton said.”The recruited computers wait for commands that come through anonymous channels and tell them to send spam email…
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