Tag Archives : global spam

There are many link shortening services these days like Bit.ly, TinyURL and many more. It has been found that many have been using these services to shorten the urls and posting it on social networking sites like Twitter which would lead the users to malicious sites. Recently, a security research led by Zscaler Inc, a company that specializes in security [...]

A study by McAfee entitled ‘Carbon Footprint of Spam’ reveals that the annual global energy used up by spam has reached a total of 33 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) or 33 terawatt hours (TWh). All this power has been needed to transmit, process, and filter spam that has, in turn, reached a generation of 62 trillion spam emails swarming the earth [...]