Sudden Spam Drop Leaves Experts Baffled

Cisco, Commtouch and other security companies are reporting a drop in the amount of spam email worldwide. Most expected a spam increase around the holidays, which did not happen. Commtouch reported a 30% decrease in SPAM from the September 2010 high. Some experts believe that spammers may be changing their attention from e-mail to attacks in the social networking realm. This alone should bring up concern to those running a secure web gateway and proxy for web services.

There's no doubt that social networking is a prime target for malware, and if the assumption by experts is true, there's more need than ever to be making sure that IT administrators are running the latest URL filtering software and malware scanning software on their secure web gateways.