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Brunel University uses spam filter to fight cyber bullying
Case Study Brunel University has adapted its spam filter to help fight email bullying. The system Brunel uses to screen spam, supplied by Secure Computing, is flexible enough to be used for other tasks in addition to filtering - including detecting email... [11 Jan 2008]
Spam hits two-thirds of all email traffic
News Two-thirds of all email traffic now constitutes spam, according to email filtering company MessageLabs. In figures released today, the company claims 65 per cent of email sent to its users during December was spam. [12 Jan 2004]
SPAM, the Curse of the New Millenium: an Overview and White Paper
White Paper This paper provides an overview of spam and describes few ways to prevent it. The only characteristic of spam that can be identified categorically is the fact that it is always unsolicited; this must therefore form the fundamental underpinning of... [18 Apr 2004]
Spam laws: "Too little, too late" is too kind
Comment Emails to companies will not be covered by the legislation and so the actual amount of spam covered by the legislation is actually the minority in terms of total spam traffic. Businesses, who are hardest hit by the spam problem, are still lacking... [18 Sep 2003]
Spam and Spyware: The Rampant Menace
White Paper Spam is consuming network resources, CPU resources, disk and network buffers, disk space - everything. There has been serious debate about the links between spyware and spam. Nonetheless, most Internet users dislike the very idea that companies are... [14 Apr 2006]
Relevancy, Spam, Technology, Cloaking and Ranking: The Ethical Guide
White Paper This paper talks about spam faced by search engines. They do this by feeding spam to the search engine spider. Spam causes problems for search engines because it does not allow them to deliver the most relevant results to their audiences. [18 Apr 2004]
Spam as a Security Issue
White Paper Spam is widely recognized as a nuisance and drain on employee productivity. While many companies have bolstered their efforts to thwart the actions of attackers, corporate IT managers and email administrators need to know what tools are available... [13 Mar 2007]
Spam and Email Threats: A Gartner Analyst Presentation
White Paper In this webcast Gartner analyst Arabella Hallawell will discuss enterprise email systems and the threats to them, including the increasing security threat posed by spam. This webcast talks about how to protect the organization from these risks... [13 Mar 2007]
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 of spam is missed and genuine emails can... [03 Jan 2002]
Spam: Corporate Concern, Personal Perspective
White Paper This paper discusses Spam and shows ways to combat with it. Spam is not just a corporate concern: it is a personal problem. Spam is not sent to an organization, it is sent to an individual. From the apparently harmless greetings card to the... [18 Apr 2004]
Spam: ISPs must crush zombies, say trade groups
News Members of the London Action Plan (LAP), which include the UK Office of Fair Trading, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and government agencies in 18 other countries, have launched Operation Spam Zombies - a campaign to make ISPs quarantine... [25 May 2005]
Not on My Toast: Spam Prevention in Domino
White Paper In this webcast Chris Miller, Connectria's Director of Messaging and Collaboration, covered everything you need to know about spam and anti-relay abilities in Domino, blacklists, rules and filters, and add-on products to help reduce spam, and more. [02 May 2004]
Spam: The Real Four-Letter Word
White Paper This informative web event will help one learn how to: Identify the spam that targets their business, stop spam from affecting users' productivity, how to prevent spam from affecting the efficiency of their IT infrastructure, applying the latest... [02 May 2004]
'Spam King' escapes $20m fine - by $19.95m
News Last week, self-proclaimed Spam King and ladies underwear seller Scott Richter, was staring down the barrel of a $20m fine courtesy of New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer. Richter, proprietor of 'email marketing' company OptInRealBig.com... [21 Jul 2004]
Spam: Use Sender ID or we'll junk you, says Microsoft
News Microsoft is to wage war on spam by pushing for all emails to have Sender ID or risk being identified as junk mail by Hotmail and MSN. Around November, Hotmail and MSN will flag as potential spam those messages that do not have the tag to verify... [23 Jun 2005]
