spam, spam, spam...

Spam traffic soars by 40 per cent

Spam traffic is up by 40 per cent.
- More pills and sex than mortgages at the moment - apparently to reflect the lack of interest in financial services. However, now is the beginning of financial fever, this is the first of two quarters where finance goes bolistic! Beware financial spam is acoming.

Google becomes domains registrar

Search giant Google has become an ICANN-accredited registrar of domain names.
I thought they were already a top level DNS server... Certainly yahoo seems to get a lot of business through offering low cost hosting services and I believe that yahoo has been hiding this. Or at least this could be what Google thinks. In any case, I cannot see hwo they can lose? Worst case scenario, they are covering off another base in the look like Yahoo scenario - who still has a bigger business than Google.

CipherTrust rolls out security upgrade

Email security firm CipherTrust has launched an upgrade to its email reputation filter.
I always wonder if the whole spam thing was brought on us by email protection systems... Apparently this type of company employ former spammers. So it would seem that there is a career path for them, based on the argument that they need to employ people in the know. I saw that on the telly a while back, so it must be true.