More than 75 percent of all email today is spam, placing a significant strain on your network, budget, and employee productivity. Our objective is to leverage mail security intelligence from the Symantec Global Intelligence Network to help protect your business from spam. By offering up-to-date expert resources, such as the monthly State of Spam Report, this site gives you a central source to turn to for the latest on spam.

Each month, Symantec publishes its "State of Spam" report, highlighting major spam events or trends observed during the previous month. The report covers broad events that impact everyone, as well as those that impact a particular region of the world.

Monthly Spam Landscape

“Two years from now, spam will be solved,” said Bill Gates in 2004. As Bill Gates left his day job at Microsoft on June 27th, it’s interesting to reflect on the spam landscape as it continues today. Since that two year mark in 2006, spam levels have steadily climbed from 56% to its present state of 80% of all email. While antispam filters have become more sophisticated in the last year, and spam threats have emerged and dissipated, it is clear that spammers are not giving up the spam fight.

The Symantec July 2008 State of Spam Report notes the following trends:

• Hacked personal email account used to scam contacts
• Spammers simplify email harvesting technique
• Japanese adult dating spam takes a new twist
• China earthquake tragedy used to spread viruses
• Olympics related lottery scam emerges
• Spam targeting Japanese mobile phone market
• Bogus news events lure innocent victims

Download The State of Spam, July 2008

PDF format, 509KB, 14Pages.

The State of Spam
A Monthly Report – July 2008
Generated by Symantec Messaging and Web Security

Doug Bowers
Executive Editor
Antispam Engineering
Dermot Harnett
Editor
Antispam Engineering
Joseph Long
Security Response Lead
Symantec Security Response
Cory Edwards

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Symantec Corporation (Symantec) provides a set of security and availability products and services to large enterprises, governments, small and medium-sized businesses, and consumers on a worldwide basis.

Symantec helps its customers protect their infrastructure, information and interactions by delivering software and services that address risks to information security, availability, compliance and information technology (IT), and systems performance.

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