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Software Testing A billion reasons to be wary of emails from Australia!
Software Testing A billion reasons to be wary of emails from Australia! | A billion reasons to be wary of emails from Australia! |
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| by Peter Dinham | |
| Tuesday, 07 July 2009 | |
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And, Australia has the dubious honour of currently being the tenth most popular country for hosting spam sites and thirteenth for hosting phishing sites. What’s more, in its latest report on spam activities around the world, McAfee also says that Australian spammers create more than 35,000 new zombies every month, and the security firm fires a broadside at countries that don’t regulate questionable hosting providers and domain registrars. A few of the recent top spam subjects in Australia revealed by McAfee include a phishing scam at the head of the list with “a message from St. George,” which McAfee notes is ”an Australian bank”. On the question of actions by countries to regulate spam and scam emails, McAfee says the long-term economic interests of countries that don’t regulate questionable hosting providers and domain registrars can suffer significantly because of short-sighted policies. McAfee highlights the fact that spam has a long-term effect on international commerce, occurring when administrators decide to block a sender’s IP based entirely on geolocation—the “from” domain—or by not allowing foreign languages or URLs into their domain. CONTINUED page 2 |
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