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RSS spamSpam on the Internet: Is It Here to Stay or Can It Be Eradicated?
White Paper This paper outlines the growing problem of spam (unsolicited bulk e-mail), which has become a pervasive problem for Internet activity and has important implications for further and higher education institutions. [14 Oct 2008]
Spam surge emanating from the Far East
News There has been a significant rise in the amount of spam originating from Chinese domains, according to the latest statistics from security vendor Symantec. In a report, Symantec noted a sharp spike in... [14 Aug 2007]
Spam will die out in three years
News Unsolicited email is an issue which affects us all - but there is light at the end of the tunnel for users inundated with spam. Spam currently accounts for around 50 per cent of all email traffic... [11 Jun 2003]
Spam Filtering Based on Latent Semantic Indexing
White Paper In this paper, a study on the classification performance of a Vector Space Model (VSM) and of Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) applied to the task of spam filtering is summarized. Based on a feature set used in the... [01 Jul 2009]
Spam seasonal shift favours Arnie and assorted tat
News Mankind's in-bred fondness for buying tat to clutter up our homes has caused the latest seasonal shift in the type of spam we are receiving in our inbox. With the exception of perennial favourites such as pornography,... [10 Sep 2003]
Spam blacklisting for one million Telewest customers
News One million Telewest customers have been blacklisted for sending spam by one of the most powerful anti-spam organisations on the web. The Spam Prevention Early Warning System (SPEWS),... [10 May 2005]
Spam busting plan to make businesses pay
News Five of the largest ISPs in the US are to start charging businesses for guaranteed delivery of their emails, in a bid to combat spam. Emails certified using the system are marked with a blue ribbon to show they come from... [07 Jun 2007]
Spam king slapped with MySpace suit
News MySpace.com has filed suit against Sanford Wallace, seeking to bar the "spam king" and his affiliated companies from the social-networking site. In the suit, filed last week in US District Court for the Central District... [28 Mar 2007]
Leader: Microsoft - spam warrior or self-server?
Leader So does this prove that legislation and prosecution can win the war on spam? The victims here weren't perceived to be the recipients of the millions of spam emails which are sent every hour around the... [19 Jul 2004]
Cheat Sheet: Spam
Cheat Sheet Spam is completely unsolicited mail, ranging from adverts for Viagra and porn sites to offers of cheap loans and murky pyramid-type schemes. AOL's software thought the emails were spam. Obviously a lot... [03 Jan 2002]
BT: spam blacklist fix in place
News BT is claiming it has fixed a problem that it was encountering with spam blacklist DSBL, which meant BT customers were getting emails bounced back, having been wrongly identified as spam. The issue... [10 Jun 2003]
Spam: Can the law offer any relief?
News Anybody who is plagued by unsolicited emails can expect little relief from a tightening of anti-spam legislation, according to two experts close to the situation. Newspapers and the media are becoming increasingly aware... [09 Jun 2003]
Spam storm needs ISP action, urges security chief
News Ispa, the UK's internet service providers' association, will today make a presentation to the House of Lords science and technology committee on computer security and spam. Speaking about the growing problem of botnets... [14 Mar 2007]
Spam born in the USA - and much is porn
News The vast majority of spam originates in the US and this summer, like last, much of it is pornographic in nature. Nearly 86 per cent of all spam messages sent since May 2004 came from the US, according to... [17 Aug 2004]
Spam museums to save junk email
News Most people's response to seeing the usual spam in their inbox is to hit delete. Stephen Newton has opened the virtual doors of his spam museum, where he aims to preserve the messages pushing porn, pills... [20 Sep 2004]
