Let’s start with the good news: According to Kaspersky, in 2013, the proportion of spam in email flows was 70%, which is 2.5 percentage points lower than in 2012. The bad news is that spam that does get through is far more dangerous. According to John Levine, chairman of the Internet Research Task Force’s Anti-Spam Research Group (ASRG) and president of the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail, “The ongoing threat is that spam is now essentially 100% criminal, and it’s as likely to try to plant bank-account-stealing malware either directly or via links to compromised websites as to sell you something.” Ow!

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