World Cup 2010 spam sees nine fold increase on Germany 2006
Vuvuzelas weren’t the only annoyance during this World Cup. Symantec’s July State of Spam and Phishing report reveals that the volume of messages with World Cup keywords in the subject line is more than nine times higher during this tournament compared to that in 2006. Not only this but there’s …
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Jago Maniscalchi is a Cyber security consultant, though he tries to avoid the word "Cyber" at all costs. He has spent 15 years working with Information Systems and has experience in website hosting, software engineering, infrastructure management, data analysis and security assessment.
Jago lives in London with his family, enough pets to start a small zooalogical society, and a Samsung NaviBot Robotic Vacuum Cleaner. Despite an aptitude for learning computer languages, his repeated attempts to learn Italian have resulted in spectacular failure.