Major career web sites hit by spammers attack
What is the future of spamming next to managed spamming appliances, like the ones already offered for use on demand? It’s targeted spamming going beyond the segmentation of the already harvested emails on per country basis, and including other variables such as city of residence, employment history, education, spoken languages, to ultimately set up the perfect foundation for targeted spamming and malware campaigns.
Email harvesting has been around since the early days of spamming, when the handy point-n-click mailto made it possible for the first databases of harvested
emails to appear.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1085
