Half the spam you get might come from your own company

Posted on March 30, 2007 at 7:05 pm

How funny would it sound if you’re working for a Fortune 1000 company and you come to find out that the spam that you get in your Inbox (ranging from Viagra to the best stocks) originated from within your own company! Quite shocking!!! I was shocked to learn that a lot of the spam that is generated and that we think comes from newbie users who’ve gotten their computers taken over are actually from very large Fortune companies, including Oracle, HP, and Best Buy!

The article from the Register cites a study that in Feburary computers connected to 28 large corporations were sending out unsolicited spam! Best Buy beat everybody out with 5,000 spam emails and they didn’t even know about it until somebody showed them the proof!

Apparently the spammers use their jobs as the place to send out their spam messages! Why not, it’s easier to use the company servers and hide your identity behind company security than relying on random user computers. Most of the companies in the article either don’t seem to know or don’t care.

But the last paragraph is the kicker…if all of these spammers can operate inside large corporate networks that have high security, than what about the thousands and thousands of servers running in government offices!?!?! Holy cow!

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