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RSS spammerSearch Engine Link Spam: Risks, Threats, Solution
White Paper Finally, you'll learn how MessageLabs delivers a proven, cost-effective solution to search engine link spam, and how MessageLabs unique service is positioned to keep pace with the latest spammer tricks. [23 Jul 2008]
Facebook under attack: The spam and phishing threat
News Anyone attempting to harvest such data "would have to go through a number of steps to get any data at all", he added, suggesting it would not be worth a spammer's while to try harvesting email addresses in this way. [23 Apr 2008]
Interview With the Spammer
White Paper This webcast is an interview with Ronald Scelson a spammer, the interview gives viewers first-hand insight into the mentality of a spammer, including: What techniques he uses to evade the majority of anti-spam solutions. [10 Apr 2008]
Evaluating the Use of Spam-Triggered TCP/IP Rate Control to Protect SMTP Servers
White Paper Our approach is motivated by a desire to cause increased resource consumption at the spammer end of each SMTP connection, and to avoid the negative impact of false-positives by eventually allowing all emails through. [26 Dec 2007]
Webcast: RU @ Spammer?!
White Paper This audiocast is designed to focus the participants’ attention on the increasing threat of spam and the viruses spam carries in today’s computing environment. Specifically, the participants will be provided with data on the staggering volumes of... [12 Dec 2007]
Emerging Trends in Fighting Spam
White Paper This white paper from Osterman Research focuses on the problems caused by image spam, as well as other spammer techniques for delivering content through existing spam-blocking defenses. Spam has been a serious problem for email administrators and... [12 Dec 2007]
Filtering's ding-dong fight with malicious spam
Comment The modern spammer is either a member of an organised criminal gang or works for one, and he relies on the gullibility of consumers and sheer volume to sell his wares. But as the threat has evolved, so have the filtering techniques that help ensure... [10 Dec 2007]
Resisting Spam Delivery by TCP Damping
White Paper Both delay and resource consumption are controlled based on the likelihood of the source of email messages being a spammer, so that the technique only impact the spammers and has negligible impact on normal email senders. [05 Dec 2007]
Anti-spam measures fail business test
News Real-time black listing, a reputation-based system that collects feedback from users to manage a black list of known spammer IP addresses and domains, was also found to be dissatisfying for businesses, with only 24 per cent saying they were "very... [20 Jul 2007]
Verizon bests mobile spammer
News Verizon Wireless said it has won a permanent injunction against a company it accused of sending text message spam, a significant step in keeping the unsolicited messages off mobile phones. In the judgment, Specialized Programming and Marketing and... [27 Feb 2007]
Charity Begins At... Your Mail Program
White Paper A number of anti-spam techniques are instances of the general technique of asking the sender of e-mail to make a small expenditure - of money or another resource - to demonstrate that it is not a spammer. [08 Dec 2006]
Photos: Cambridge boffins showcase tech of tomorrow
Photo Adverts and promos sent direct to your mobile might seem like a spammer's dream but Cambridge group OnMyMobile want to make sure consumers keep control of what they receive with opt-out services. Funded by East of England Development Agency, the St... [13 Nov 2006]
Anti-spam champion slapped with $11.7m damages
News Posting a note that e360insignt was inaccurately labelled as a spammer would be a lie, Spamhaus said. If a spammer gets listed, less spam gets through and their revenue is related to the amount of spam that gets read," Drako said. [15 Sep 2006]
US court upholds anti-spam law
News At the time of his arrest, Jaynes was regarded as the eighth-worst spammer by spam watchdog Spamhaus, the statement added. The Virginia Court of Appeals upheld a state anti-spam law on Tuesday by affirming the conviction of the first person in the... [07 Sep 2006]
China fines its first spammer £331
News The Chinese government has fined a company 5,000 yuan renminbi (£331) for sending out spam. It is the first time the Chinese government has penalised a company for sending junk email since an anti-spam regulation came into force in March. [22 Aug 2006]
