Spammers Hijacking Servers Is Nothing New

from the not-much-progress dept

While there are plenty of stories these days about spammers hijacking computers around the world to send out more spam, you might not realize that this is nothing new. A story published five years ago said that, at the time, one in five corporate servers was being hijacked for spam. In other words, five years later and we haven't done much to solve the sneaky methods spammers use to send out their junk mail.

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