Spam email rate falls below 50 percent for first time in a decade

Spam fell to less than 50 percent of all email in June, the lowest in a decade, Symantec said Thursday in its latest Intelligence Report. The levels of spam have been slowly falling since 2010 for multiple reasons. Network providers are more tuned into the problem and take action faster when there are issues on their services. Also, unlike six or seven years ago, sending billions of messages per day from massive botnets isn't as feasible anymore. Law enforcement, along with companies including M...