by Robert McMillan, IDG News Service
Junk images are being used to trick e-mail filters, security vendors say.
Spam is again on the rise, led by a flood of junk images that spammers have crafted over the past few months to trick e-mail filters, according to security vendors.
Called “image-based” spam, these junk images typically do not contain […]
by Jonathan Coupal
Executive Summary
Unsolicited commercial email, also commonly known as spam, has developed a negative reputation because it is at best a waste of valuable time and at worst an offensive intrusion into one’s desktop. It is estimated that 56% of all mail that passes through the Internet is spam which is an increase of […]
by Joris Evers
Many Windows PCs have been turned into zombies, but rootkits are not yet widespread, according to a Microsoft security report slated for release Monday.
More than 60 percent of Windows PCs scanned by Microsoft’s Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool between January 2005 and March 2006 were found to run malicious bot software, according to […]
by Kelly Martin, SecurityFocus
Comment Back in 1972, by some accounts, a new form of communication known as email was born. It was a practical implementation of electronic messaging that was first seen on local timeshare computers in the 1960s. I can only imagine how much fun and revolutionary it must have been to use email […]
by Dina Giolitto
1. There is money to be made in spam. The goal of the spam racketeers: crack your passcodes, dig into your credit card and bank account information and sell it to third parties. The method: set up zombie “spam host” computers all over the world that will send virus-laden spam emails. The viruses […]
by George Ou
Fix SMTP and leave port 25 alone for the sake of spam by ZDNet’s George Ou — Larry Seltzer of eWeek, whom I have great respect for and usually agree with, wrote this article on dealing with spam using the controversial tactic of blocking all outbound port 25 access.? The logic behind this […]
by Allan Gunnneson
Spam is everywhere. It’s the “in-box lunch meat” nobody likes, wants or looks forward too. Unfortunately, many folks enjoy “eating” this product because if they didn’t, there wouldn’t be any. Read on…
The federal government’s ill-conceived CAN-SPAM Act did little more than make a few legislators feel better about themselves. Did this legislation stop […]
By John Sylvester
Today I met a client for lunch. He runs a ticketing agency in Vienna and complained about confirmation emails not getting through to customers with an AOL or Yahoo email account.
In an article he recently stumbled upon, it referes to: “AOL and Yahoo are planning to begin charging what amounts to postage for […]
By Christopher J Enders
A server spam filter is a software application that scans incoming email messages, identifies SPAM based on preset configurations and isolates the unsolicited email so that it never reaches the email inboxes of the personal computers in the computer network.
SPAM is the slang term that is commonly used to describe unwanted, unsolicited […]
by Deb Shinder
E-mail communications are essential to getting the job done in today’s business world, but many companies are overwhelmed by spam, the security risks of e-mail-borne viruses and worms and liability implications of e-mail containing pornography or other undesirable content. It’s getting harder and harder for network administrators to keep it all under control.
And […]
