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Global spam is now at the lowest it has been since November 2008, when the rogue ISP McColo was closed-down. The effect on spam volumes back then were very dramatic and spam accounted for 68.0% of global emails. More recently the decline has been much slower, but spammers have also adapted to using more targeted approaches and exploiting social media as alternatives to email.

A wise man once said, “Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times.” (Machiavelli). Thus, looking back at the major cyber security trends of 2011 helps us gain perspective on what we can expect in the future.

The word ‘Nimda’ may not be the most well remembered in the cyber-crime hall of fame but as malicious worm outbreaks go, Nimda certainly contributed to the malware landscape and was able to cause havoc on 18 September, 10 years ago in 2001.

As with many exciting trends we observe in the technology industry - designed as a force for good, to enable, enhance and empower - there are criminals on the other side of fence looking to hijack, undermine and exploit the new capabilities for their own nefarious purposes.  The subject of today's post - VoIP telephony - is an excellent example of how even a genuinely transformative te

Today – Monday 4th July – is notable not just because it is Independence Day in the US, but also because it marks another important anniversary for the technology industry in particular.

Welcome to the June edition of the Symantec Intelligence report, which for the first time combines the best research and analysis from the Symantec.cloud MessageLabs Intelligence Report and the Symantec State of Spam & Phishing Report.  The new integrated report, the Symantec Intelligence Report, provides the latest analysis of cyber security threats, trends and insights from the Syman

Posted on behalf of Martin Lee, Senior Software Engineer, Symantec.cloud

Posted on behalf of Mat Nisbet, Malware Analyst, Symantec.cloud

On the 16th of March Rustock, the largest of the spamming botnets, was taken down. As you would expect,  global spam levels started to drop, as can be seen when you look at the number of mails being delivered  to one of our spamtraps.

On 21 March 2006, Jack Dorsey sent the first ever Twitter message or ‘tweet’ with five simple words “just setting up my twttr”.  Five years later, 140 million tweets are sent in a host of different languages every day via the micro-blogging service which boasts over 200 million registered users worldwide and is valued at an estimated $7.7 billion following an au