http://news.techworld.com/security/3224848/new-undersea-cable-feeds-african-botnets/ By John E. Dunn Techworld 26 May 2010 Spam coming from Africa could be about to boom thanks to new broadband infrastructure in the Eastern half of the continent, according to Symantec's MessageLabs division. The proportion of global spam sent by Africa is still a tiny 3 percent, by MessageLab's reckoning, but that is up from the 2 percent in April 2009. At a time when global spam levels are stable, the extra 1.2 billion spam emails is large enough to count as a new trend. Although the Western side of Africa, and North-Africa in particular, still account for the overwhelming volume of African spam, the company notes the lighting of a new undersea fibre cable running down the eastern edge of the continent in July 2009 was probably the key development. Coming ashore in Djibouti, Kenya, Tanzania, Madagascar and Mozambique, the 8,400Km long, 1.2 terabit link could explain why that side of continent has seen its share of the African spam phenomenon rise. [...] _______________________________________________ Best Selling Security Books and More! Shop InfoSec News http://www.shopinfosecnews.org/Received on Thu May 27 2010 - 01:21:49 PDT
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