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Photos: Waging war on the web's bad guys
Photo Software filters out false positives from the one billion-plus logs that generate the huge amount of data seen on the screen here, leaving Symantec's 30-strong team of security experts at the Reading centre to deal with the most serious attacks. [21 Jul 2008]
TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Uses the Exchange Hosted Services to Protect the Messaging Environment (Level 300)
White Paper All mail delivered to mailboxes@microsoft.com is first routed through Exchange Hosted Services, a hosted service that filters mail for spam and viruses and enforces corporate e-mail policies "In the cloud" before the mail reaches the Microsoft... [08 Jul 2008]
Barclays gives online users free security software
News The package from Kaspersky protects from adware, spyware, viruses and provides parental control and spam filters. Barclays Bank is to offer its two million online customers free security software. Barclays already offers its online banking... [01 Jul 2008]
TechNet Webcast: Implementing Exchange Hosted Filtering (Level 200)
White Paper Exchange Hosted Filtering incorporates multiple filters to actively help protect businesses' inbound and outbound e-mail from spam, viruses, phishing scams, and e-mail policy violations. The presenter of this webcast explains the steps involved in... [01 May 2008]
Noncommercial Email Lists: Collateral Damage in the Fight Against Spam
White Paper The large number of anti-spam tools is a tremendous problem for email list owners, who must navigate everything from "block lists" to Bayesian filters" to communicate with willing recipients. There is also some evidence that administrators are... [18 Apr 2008]
Phorm defends 'traffic-analysis' methods
News We would point to the many important and valuable consumer internet services such as Gmail or spam filters where data from one side of the 'communication' is analysed for the purpose of showing ads or blocking spam. [11 Apr 2008]
Anti-Spam Effectiveness: Is Your Current Solution Up to Par?
White Paper Spammers have grown in sophistication and use a wide variety of new techniques - such as highly variable language, quickly rotating URLs and obfuscated images - to thwart anti-spam filters. Although the war on spam continues to intensify, many... [07 Apr 2008]
Winning the Battle Against Image-based Spam
White Paper Techniques spammers are using to confuse spam filters, such as image obfuscation, animated GIFs, etc. Mounting an effective defense against image-based spam requires detection techniques that can evolve as quickly as the attacks themselves. [07 Apr 2008]
Image Spam: The New Email Scourge
White Paper This paper discusses how image spam has developed and evolved and, most important, why it's more difficult to detect than text spam for most anti-spam filters. They describe some of the methods used by spammers to avoid detection and the techniques... [03 Apr 2008]
Mobile Messaging With Exchange ActiveSync
White Paper Designed with comprehensive security features, SCOoffice prevents e-mail viruses before reaching users, filters out unsolicited e-mail (SPAM), and provides secure e-mail access. SCOoffice Server 4.1 delivers a reliable, full-featured Internet e... [19 Feb 2008]
Filtering's ding-dong fight with malicious spam
Comment Deakin says: "Using different service providers' filters will also help you stop a higher proportion of spam as they will be updated at different times and are better at stopping different things. These include looking for specific spam signatures... [10 Dec 2007]
Stopping Spam and Other E-Mail Threats
White Paper See how a unique two-layer solution effectively filters out spam and other e-mail threats without disrupting legitimate communications. Spam, spyware, phishing, and other e-mail scams are wasting your valuable IT resources. [25 Nov 2007]
Spammers switching on to YouTube?
News On 17 October spammers used attached MP3 music files to try to "sneak messages past spam filters", said MessageLabs. MessageLabs has claimed that following the first spam campaign involving audio files earlier this month, which attempted to control... [30 Oct 2007]
China hosting half of world's malicious sites
News Criminals are hard at work trying to slip past filters at the corporate gateway. Sophos also warned against a sharp rise in spam pointing people to these infected sites. Theriault said: "Most malware writers.are using spam and the web to infect users. [04 Sep 2007]
Spam surge emanating from the Far East
News Although Excel and ZIP-file spam numbers remain low, Symantec's report stated that finding new attachment formats is an indication of "just how committed spammers are to evading anti-spam filters". There has been a significant rise in the amount of... [14 Aug 2007]
