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WashingtonPost
In the fallout resulting from knocking McColo Corp. offline, this past week may prove to be a missed opportunity in the prevention of a dramatic reappearance of junk e-mail, as a botnet that once controlled 40 percent of the world’s spam apparently has found a new home.
The botnet Srizbi was knocked offline Nov. 11 along [...]

The closure of a web hosting firm that is believed to have had spam gangs as clients has led to a drastic reduction in junk mail.  Two US internet service providers have pulled the plug on the firm McColo following an investigation by the Washington Post newspaper.
Anti-spam firm Ironport has seen junk mail levels drop [...]

WebProNews
A study on spam from Berkeley and UCSD came back with some pretty intriguing results. The most publicised one was that 1 in 12.5 million conversions is all it may take for spam to be profitable.
Perhaps the most incredible detail of the study (PDF) is that the researchers, led by UCSD associate professor Stefan Savage, [...]

You will continue to get spam, as long as people continue to purchase the products/services advertised, and this figure has increased this year from around 20% to almost 30% of users purchasing a product as the result of a spam campaign accord to security firm Marshal.
The company polled around 600 people, and the found that [...]

About $3 million each month is sent from Australia to criminals in Nigeria, with at least 80 per cent of which was related to fraud.  The most likely to fall prey were residents of NSW, the Queensland fraud squad advised the media.  Police said the figure would climb since even more money was sent to [...]

It was discovered around June that a common ActiveX control used to preview Microsoft Access reports as snapshots poses a potential target for exploitation by web pages.  Microsoft has confirmed that the flaw exists and highlighted an advisory regarding the ActiveX control for Snapshot Viewer.  The problem revolves around unprotected users visiting malicious websites that [...]