Tech.Blorge is reporting on a Sophos study that has the U.S. firmly on top of the spam producers list. The good news is although still topping the list, output is down. The UK dropped out of the top 10 (to #13).
According to the study the US sends 19.8% of the spam with #2 China sending 7.5%.
No doubt much of the US pam comes from unsuspecting companies as profiled in this Inforworld article. The article talks about larger companies who’s servers are used for sending spam (without their knowledge). The obvious reaction is if big businesses can’t secure their servers then smaller businesses probably have even bigger problems. My second reaction is about the security at these companies. While being able to use a server to send spam isn’t at the level of hacking into data it does raise a few flags.
While Australia, which didn’t make the list, is fining spammers according to this International Business Times article.