Google Says Spam and Virus Attacks Getting More Clever

Slashdot points to an article in eWEEK.com from last Monday where Google's Postini team released a report that its data centers recorded 57 percent more spam and virus attacks in 2007 compared to 2006.

The size of spam emails also increased considerably as spammers included images, .pdf files, documents,, spreadsheets and even multimedia files to spoof spam filters, according to the author of the report, Adam Swidler, senior solutions marketing manager for Postini.

Google acquired Postini for $625 million and has made substantial progress applying Postini messaging security assets to its own apps, e.g., Gmail.

The eWeek.com article also contains a link to the full report, a Google white paper from February in .pdf format.