spam anti- in comment and analysis
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Tighten content security
Comment The problem has been contained through the widespread deployment of anti-spam products and services in the highly competitive market of the past decade. The choice can seem mind-boggling if you take all these vendors and review them alongside other... [02 May 2008]
Malware: From bedroom to boardroom
Comment In 2003, anti-spam legislation was starting to be enacted, which had the effect of driving spam lords underground. Unsurprisingly, they had an immediate and devastating impact on spam levels and in 2003 the volume of spam surpassed legitimate email... [19 Nov 2007]
Dear silicon.com... modern malware, Vista sales, Bluetooth ads...
Comment Most come in attached to spam. The promotional messages also encourage recipients to go inside the branch for more information.personally after I'd received a few of these unsolicited spam messages I'd be more tempted to throw a brick through the... [04 Oct 2007]
The biggest VoIP security threats - and how to stop them
Comment Businesses should use antivirus software and it keep up-to-date, install a firewall and configure it to restrict traffic coming into and leaving the organisation, and use anti-spam tools to cut down on the volume of emailed malware. [22 Mar 2007]
Leader: Time for tougher spam laws
Leader So you can understand both this publication's hope and depression at recent news the UK government may revise our flawed anti-spam laws - hope that they'll get it right this time around, depression that it's taken so long to come about.silicon.com... [19 Jul 2006]
Brampton Factor: You call this an information society?
Comment From Shannon's perspective, the stories are information but to the spammer they are simply a device to evade anti-spam measures. A lot of spam nowadays includes a paragraph from a book. I find it quite entertaining, since my old fashioned mail... [20 Jun 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 12.08.05
Round-Up Anyway three cheers for Bill and his lawyers for proving that spam doesn't pay. Richter's company, OptInRealBig.com, dominated Spamhaus' Register of Known Spam Operations (Rokso) longer than Bryan Adams' (Everything I Do) I Do it for You plagued... [12 Aug 2005]
Leader: UK soft on spam
Leader As a result, Spamhaus, one of the world's most active anti-spam campaigners, has said the UK is one of the safest places to send spam. Spamhaus and a number of other anti-spam organisations have noticed a significant reduction in the amount of spam... [11 Aug 2005]
Devil's Advocate: How to catch a spammer
Comment At least three different domains have been used to spam my site but they all point to exactly the same page. This anti-social practice occurs with websites that make themselves open to change by visitors. [09 Aug 2005]
Leader: Spam laws shame the UK
Leader We wanted to know why the UK's anti-spam laws are so lame and so we asked the DTI just who it consulted with in drafting the laws. In the past, representatives of bodies such as the Office of Fair Trading and the DTI have objected to silicon.com's... [03 Jun 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 13.05.05
Round-Up By blocking all Telewest IP addresses the anti-spam group has certainly blocked the guilty parties. Telewest's 900,000 or so customers have all been blacklisted by the Spam Prevention Early Warning System (SPEWS), whose list is referenced by many... [13 May 2005]
Leader: Telewest, how did it come to this?
Leader By blocking all Telewest IP addresses the anti-spam group has certainly blocked the guilty parties. The Spam Prevention Early Warning System (SPEWS) has been accused of using a bulldozer to crack a nut. [10 May 2005]
Leader: InfoSec's appeal
Leader They rode the antivirus wave, then the anti-spam wave and now many are riding the anti-spyware wave. There were very few attendees at InfoSecurity Europe this week who didn't appear to be genuinely energised about attending the show's 10th year. [29 Apr 2005]
Leader: When security firms run out of acquisition targets
Leader Lots of companies are going to try to ride the anti-spyware wave as they rode the anti-spam wave," said Jolly. With news that SurfControl has made the leap into anti-spyware, through the purchase of Apreo, we can strike off another acquisition... [07 Mar 2005]
CIO Agenda: The 2005 technology shopping list
Comment Over 90 per cent of respondents said they will be focusing on email security, while over 80 per cent will also be spending on anti-spam, monitoring and antivirus technology in 2005. What's in store for IT over the next 12 months? [14 Dec 2004]
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