Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
The global ratio of spam in email traffic from new and previously
unknown bad sources was 75.1 percent (1 in 1.33 emails), a decrease of
1.4 percent since June.
The global ratio of email-borne viruses in email traffic from new and
previously unknown bad sources was one in 148.2 emails (.67 percent), a
decrease of 0.07 percent since June.
A total of 3 percent of email-borne malware contained links to malicious sites, a decrease of 17.3 percent since June.
Phishing activity rose by .19 percent compared with the previous month.
One in 180.6 (.55 percent) emails comprised some form of phishing
attack.
Spam levels in the UK reached 69.9 percent in July and 74.6 percent in
Canada. Germany's spam rate reached 70 percent and spam rose to 70.6
percent in the Netherlands. Spam levels in Australia were 64.1 percent,
72.9 percent in China and 67.8 percent in Japan.
The largest increase of .48 percent in virus activity was observed in
Canada where virus levels of 1 in 80.7 put the country in third place
for July.
Virus levels for the US were 1 in 243.7 and 1 in 110.3 for the UK and 1
in 214.8 for Germany. In Australia, virus levels were 1 in 303.1 and 1
in 378.6 for Japan.
And the most spammed country was...
Switzerland remained the most spammed country with levels reaching 84.2
percent of all email. The largest increase in spam levels this month
was observed in the United States where it rose by 5.9 percent to 79.8
percent.
David Bass
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