I found an interesting, if somewhat depressing, article at NetworkWorld:
The world’s antispam systems are fighting a furious but hopeless battle against botnet spam, a new threat analysis from Commtouch has claimed.
According to the U.S. company’s zombie monitor, by the time that reputation and source analysis systems have identified compromised PCs and servers responsible for sending the spam that floods the Internet every day, most botnets will have shifted to using new machines.1
Footnotes
- John E. Dunn, Botnets Winning Spam Wars, Says Report, NetworkWorld (2008), https://web.archive.org/web/20080713034550/http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/070908-botnets-winning-spam-wars-says.html (last visited Jul 11, 2008). ↩︎
About the Author
Mickey is a Consultant & Attorney with over 28 years of experience in Email Deliverability & Privacy Law. He has a strong background in email authentication infrastructure (SPF, DKIM, DMARC), ISP and mailbox provider relations, anti-spam policy and compliance, CAN-SPAM and state anti-spam law gained through overseeing the Abuse & Compliance team at Salesforce Marketing Cloud, originating the ISP relations role at Informz (now part of Higher Logic), and working in the fight against spam since 1997. He holds a B.A. in Government, a B.S. in Computer Information Systems, and a J.D. from the University of Houston Law Center. He is a certified CIPP/US professional and a certified CIPM professional.
