{"id":3884,"date":"2007-07-12T14:36:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-12T14:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3884"},"modified":"2017-11-25T18:23:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-26T00:23:37","slug":"this-just-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/12\/this-just-in\/","title":{"rendered":"This Just In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/action\/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&#038;articleId=9026840&#038;source=NLT_AM&#038;nlid=1\" target=\"_new\">Israeli security firm reports huge spike in PDF spam<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Israeli security firm Commtouch Software Ltd. is warning of a massive surge in Portable Document Format spam over the past 24 hours. <\/p>\n<p>According to estimates by the company, about 10% to 15% of all spam over the past day or so has been in the form of PDF messages. &#8220;Given the fact that these messages are nearly four times bigger than standard spam messages, this increases overall global spam traffic by 30% to 40%,&#8221; said Rebecca Herson, senior director of marketing at the Israel-based company. <\/p>\n<p>So far, the outbreak has involved 14 billion to 21 billion PDF unsolicited messages and shows no signs of slowing, Herson said. <\/\n\n<blockquote>><\/p>\n<p>Lucky me, I must have been on the beta test list, since I&#8217;ve been getting this crap for over a week.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, if I am on the spammers&#8217; friendlies list, maybe there&#8217;s time for me to make a killing in Vision Airships before it goes from 1.9 cents a share to 2.8 cents a share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli security firm reports huge spike in PDF spam: Israeli security firm Commtouch Software Ltd. is warning of a massive surge in Portable Document Format spam over the past 24 hours. According to estimates by the company, about 10% to 15% of all spam over the past day or so has been in the form [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3884"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17960,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3884\/revisions\/17960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}