Press for Study on Profitability of Spam

March 17, 2011
U.S. News and World Report, Wired Magazine and the NPR News Blog have featured research by Networking Group members and a team from UC San Diego on the profitability of spam. The researchers took over part of a spam botnet, a group of malware-infected computers instructed to send large amounts of spam, to find out how many spam messages were successfully delivered and how many led to a sale. Read more about the research here >>