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Spam now accounts for 90% of email traffic due to February surge

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

February was a bad month for email. Due to a surge in the month of February, spam now accounts for 90% of email traffic according to Symantec. Two botnets, named Grum and Rustock, helped this spam surge by pushing up spam levels 5.5 percent. The Grum botnet came back from a period of plateau to increase activity by 51%. The rise of both botnet systems were linked to activity related to Canadian pharmaceutical spam.

Country specific:
Spam levels reached 93.4% of all e-email in Italy last month
Denmark was at 92.8%
Russia at 91.8%
US was 90.2%

UK Government Extends Copyright Crackdown To All Open Wifi

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

The UK Government will not exempt libraries, businesses such as cafes or bookstores, museums, or even universities from it’s copyright enforcement policy. Open wifi networks will be a thing of the past now that the UK Government will hold the owners of open networks responsible for violations in copyright laws committed from within it’s network.

The efforts related to the Digital Economy Bill imposes strict enforcement policies for copyright protections. This new policy will make it impossible for small businesses and the like to offer Wi-Fi access. A scenario described by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) in a document Online Infringement of copyright: Libraries, Universities and Wi-fi providers, Feb. 10, 2010, regarding the new policy for open wifi access would essentially “outlaw open Wi-Fi for small businesses.”

Source:
http://www.openrightsgroup.org/assets/files/pdfs/bis/B2_-_Libraries,_Universities,_and_Wifi_Providers-Factsheet.doc

Women Dominate Social Websites, Study Says

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

social media websites - male and female usersAccording to a study by Brian Solis published on informationisbeautiful.net, who conducted a study using Google Ad Planner, women greatly out number men on social networking websites.

Youtube, Linkedin, deviantart and del.icio.us all contained an equal ratio of male to female.

The study also suggested that there is only one male dominated social media website: Digg–with a 64% / 36% ratio.