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Dave Marcus currently serves as Director of Security Research for McAfee® Labs, focusing on bringing McAfee’s ...

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McAfee Monthly Spam Report for March

Monday, March 9, 2009 at 12:04pm by David Marcus
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The third edition of our monthly spam report was released today. This edition discusses some fascinating topics. Key findings include:

Spam campaigns are taking advantage of “partitioning” to increase their effectiveness and combat the efforts of security tools to reduce their reach.

Replica-watch spam has taken over the number one position for holiday spam.

Business leaders and legislatures have promised to stamp out spam, yet the plague persists. Does reputation-based security hold the key?

Putting a dollar value on productivity lost due to spam.

The topic of lost productivity and bringing quantifiable numbers to the impact of spam on a business is particularly interesting and worth a solid read. Download a copy here.

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