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Spam Twice As Likely to be Sent Through Yahoo Account
- Krebs on Security, Wednesday, January 16, 2013 4:47 PM
According to email security firm Cloudmark, 22% of messages sent through a Yahoo account are spam, compared to 11% from Microsoft and 6% from Google. Cloudmark attributes the difference to a recent history of layoffs and turnover at Yahoo, which makes retaining engineering talent difficult. Global spam volume has declined over the past few years, spiking at 6 trillion messages per month during 2008-2010 before settling to current steady levels of about 1 trillion messages per month.
