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Short URLs on spammers' hit-lists
News Donbot appears to be primarily focused on displaying advertisements but could be linking to sites that drop malware onto visitors' computers too, he said. Matt Sergeant, a senior anti-spam technologist... [08 Jul 2009]
Filtering Spam by Using Factors Hyperbolic Trees
White Paper For example, an E-mail of refrigerator advertisements is useful for most families, but it is useless for Eskimos. Most of current anti-spam techniques, like the Bayesian anti-spam... [01 Jul 2009]
Spamalytics: An Empirical Analysis of Spam Marketing Conversion
White Paper All receives the advertisements - " Excellent Hardness is Easy! And yet, the relentlessness by which such spam continually clogs Internet inboxes, despite years of energetic deployment of anti-spam... [30 Jun 2009]
High Speed Image Part Recognition (IPR)
White Paper As anti-spam filters have improved in their capacity to process text based messages, spammers have learned to convey their advertisements using a number of different "Envelopes". These envelopes include... [01 May 2009]
Junked: Is this the end of spam and spoof email?
News Increasingly creative counter-attacks by fraudsters - such as inserting image advertisements in the text of messages - have been able to defeat many of these methods. In the long run, DomainKeys is more promising than... [23 May 2007]
Spam king slapped with MySpace suit
News He also allegedly created profiles, groups and forums on MySpace, spammed thousands of users with unwanted advertisements and lured MySpace users to his websites, according to the complaint. In the suit, filed last week... [28 Mar 2007]
China fines its first spammer £331
News The government's Internet Society of China said the company which was fined, Hesheng Zhihui Enterprise Management Consulting, "was found to have bulk sent emails containing advertisements to internet users since January". [22 Aug 2006]
Spyware kingpin ordered to cough up $4m
News OptinTrade placed advertisements for Wallace's software and has agreed to surrender $227,000 in ill-gotten gains, the agency said. The CDT manages the Anti-Spyware Coalition. The US Federal Trade... [05 May 2006]
Web giants back anti-spyware push
News For example, software that displays advertisements or tracks user behaviour must disclose what type of ads will be displayed and what information will be tracked, according to the statement. Although adware makers say... [16 Nov 2005]
Devil's Advocate: Your PC will never be safe
Comment The category therefore includes everything from keyloggers that monitor your every stroke and diallers that take you to premium rate phone numbers to tricks that persuade you to view advertisements. That something else... [05 Jul 2005]
Bloggers become spyware spreaders
News Creators of malicious code take advantage of security vulnerabilities in email software, web browsers and desktop applications to spread code used to siphon personal information or litter a PC with advertisements. [24 Feb 2005]
Spyware no longer a growing menace
News Adware cookies are files stored on your computer when you visit websites that contain personal information used to target advertisements. Adware itself - software that serves advertisements when you run... [14 Oct 2004]
Spammer's back with spyware
Comment The US Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday is scheduled to announce an aggressive new strategy in taking on alleged purveyors of 'spyware', a vague term that describes software that may track unsuspecting web surfers and bombard them... [12 Oct 2004]
Analysis: What Europe (still) doesn't get about tech
Comment Nations such as Germany prohibit comparative advertisements, in which BMW might claim its new coupe is better than a Mercedes. Anti-business regulations Declan McCullagh, from silicon.com's sister site... [23 Jun 2004]
Ageism in IT: Employers must change their ways
Comment The bank now makes a point of using an extensive range of diverse images on recruitment advertisements to attract applications from all ages. Supermarket chain Somerfield offers another positive example of... [10 Jun 2004]
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