2008年的垃圾邮件变得恶劣

    根据一项来自电子邮件安全厂商IronPort的最新报告：英国个人计算机的垃圾邮件较以前更为泛滥，在未来垃圾邮件的攻击对象会逐渐转变为个体。

    2008年网络安全趋势报告指出，英国目前每天约有二百亿封垃圾邮件，占所有电子邮件的98%。邮件安全厂商IronPort's Jason Steer 说，这种趋势可能继续进入2008年，垃圾邮件发送者会从各站点获取个人信息以便更有效的攻击计算机。“当一个信息被定制为一个个体时；点击率比其他的都高，”他解释说，“垃圾邮件发送者的攻击对象并不希望是百分之百的用户，他们想要的是5-10%个体的高净值。

    当前的反垃圾邮件技术效力的评估方法需要彻底检查。在垃圾邮件数量巨大的今天，声称过滤器能截取95-98%的垃圾邮件的说法给了消费者一个虚假的安全感，Steer补诉。

    “传统的垃圾邮件是关于商业广告性质的，但是现在我们称之为"恶劣的垃圾邮件"，它危及到个人计算机用户安全。”这种威胁很可能继续进入2008年。

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UK PCs are now more likely to be deluged with spam than ever before and are likely to be increasingly targeted at individuals in the future, according to a new report from web and email security vendor IronPort released today.

The firm's 2008 Internet Security Trends Report finds that the UK now gets 20 billion spam emails every day, which amounts to 98 percent of all email traffic. The trend is likely to continue into 2008 with spammers harvesting personal information from sites such as Facebook in order to target attacks more effectively, according to IronPort's Jason Steer.

"When a message is customised to an individual; the click through rate is higher than when not," he explained. "Spammers don't want to target 100 percent of the population, they want the five to ten percent of high net worth individuals who are worth going after."

Steer also argued that the current method for evaluating the effectiveness of anti-spam technology needs overhauling. Because spam numbers are so large today, saying that filters capture 95 to 98 percent of spam gives the customer a false sense of security, he added.

Another trend from 2007 likely to continue into next year is the convergence of threats; that is, spam which contains a URL link to a malicious web site. " Traditionally spam was about getting consumers to make a purchase, but now it's what we call 'dirty spam' … it's about compromising users' PCs," said Steer.