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Spammers Find Pictures Better Than Words

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 […]