spam

Have you noticed an increase in the number of suspicious "undeliverable mail" messages in your inbox? If yes, you are not alone in this predicament, and no, your server has not been hacked. There are reports that the amount of the so-called bounceback spam, or backscatter, has been rising globally.

IT security company Sophos published the results of a new study, detailing the volume of spam and the distribution of its sources. Their research team monitored spam email and related websites for the first three months of 2008, using the company's global network of spam traps. The main findings: 92.3% of all email was spam and, in addition, they identified 3,300 new spam-related web pages every day, or one every three seconds.