Technology news and Jobs 
VIRTUALISATION 2012 Internet spam spreading malware
VIRTUALISATION 2012 Internet spam spreading malware | 2012 Internet spam spreading malware |
|
| by Stephen Withers | |
| Monday, 14 July 2008 | |
|
Page 1 of 2   
Featured Whitepaper
5 Best Practices for Smartphone Support
Subject lines include "Secret Plan To Kill Internet By 2012: Leaked?" and "2012: The Year The Internet Ends". The message body suggests there is some kind of conspiracy afoot that will result in the current open Internet being reduced to a "TV-like" subscription model. According to Symantec, the bulk (70 percent) of the spam is originating from the US, followed by 9 percent from the UK and 6 percent from Canada. The spam is quite clever. It taps into concerns over moves away from the principle of net neutrality (which would allow ISPs to deliver fast access to sites operated by their business partners, while slowing links to other sites to a degree that could make them unusable), suggestions that the rate of increase in the amount of video content being downloaded could swamp the available network capacity within a few years, and (in some countries) a tendency for large ISPs to secure exclusive Internet rights to popular content such as major sporting competitions. But those behind the campaign aren't all that clever - please read on to find out why. |
| < Next story in category | Previous story in the category > |
|---|
