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domingo, julho 10, 2005
Email traffic doubled after London bomb blasts
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Email traffic has doubled in Europe today after four bombs exploded in central London.
A snapshot of email activity from security company MessageLabs found the number of customer emails it monitored grew from the average of 500,000 to one million an hour after terrorist attacks began.
Alex Shipp, senior antivirus technologist for MessageLabs, said: "Sometime after 09:00(BST) we saw email traffic rise. That's ignoring spam - that's half a million legitimate emails an hour up to one million.
"We don't know what the traffic is but we're guessing that it's 'are you OK?' and 'have you seen the news?' messages. But that's based on the emails we've been getting."
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Email traffic doubled after London bomb blasts - Telecoms - Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com
Email traffic has doubled in Europe today after four bombs exploded in central London.
A snapshot of email activity from security company MessageLabs found the number of customer emails it monitored grew from the average of 500,000 to one million an hour after terrorist attacks began.
Alex Shipp, senior antivirus technologist for MessageLabs, said: "Sometime after 09:00(BST) we saw email traffic rise. That's ignoring spam - that's half a million legitimate emails an hour up to one million.
"We don't know what the traffic is but we're guessing that it's 'are you OK?' and 'have you seen the news?' messages. But that's based on the emails we've been getting."
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Email traffic doubled after London bomb blasts - Telecoms - Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com
posted by CMT, 5:12 da tarde
