Taiwan fingered as the hub of spam distribution
10:04 - Tuesday 13 June 2006 by THG Reporting Team
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: taiwan, spam Category : Miscellaneous
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: taiwan, spam Category : Miscellaneous
Almost two thirds (64%) of servers controlling spam traffic are located in Taiwan, according to a survey by email security firm CipherTrust.
Such servers, used by internet low lives to relay spam and phishing emails through zombie, compromised PCs, are also commonly located in the US. The US accounts for 23% of the machines identified on CipherTrust’s spam server blacklist with China in a fairly distant third place (3%)
Read more (The Register)
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