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White Paper It only takes a few people to respond to a spam ad to make it profitable for the spammer - so the game is to reach as many people as possible with the spam message to increase the odds of finding a few respondents. [12 Nov 2009]
Emerging Trends in Fighting Spam
White Paper This white paper 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... [05 Aug 2009]
Short URLs on spammers' hit-lists
News Matt Sergeant, a senior anti-spam technologist at MessageLabs, said: "Usually when we see a spike of this nature it tends to indicate that a spammer has found some method of automating the creation of these short URLs. [08 Jul 2009]
Social Honeypots: Making Friends With a Spammer Near You
White Paper Social networking communities have become an important communications platform, but the popularity of these communities has also made them targets for a new breed of social spammers. Unfortunately, little is known about these social... [01 Jul 2009]
Spam, Phishing, and the Looming Challenge of Big Botnets
White Paper What could a spammer or phisher do with a botnet of a thousand machines? a hundred thousand? a million? Send lots of email" is the least worrisome answer to these questions. As anti-spam and anti-phishing defenses... [01 Jul 2009]
A Quantitative Study of Forum Spamming Using Context-Based Analysis
White Paper To evaluate the impact of forum spamming on search quality, the paper has conducted a comprehensive study from three perspectives: that of the search user, the spammer, and the forum hosting site. Forum spamming has... [01 Jul 2009]
An Open Digest-Based Technique for Spam Detection
White Paper To be effective, this strategy requires a way to identify similarity among email messages, even if the program used by the spammer to generate the messages may try to obfuscate their common origin. A promising anti-spam... [01 Jul 2009]
The Advantages of Using Traffic-Shaping Techniques to Control Spam
White Paper While spam today represents four out of every five email messages sent, the absolute volume of spam continues to increase at a rapid pace - 2006 alone, for example, will see more than a 100% increase in the absolute volume of spam sent... [30 Jun 2009]
Eliminating the Spam Scourge
White Paper The first thing a spammer must do is obtain a list of e-Mail addresses. If a spammer has a list of a million e-Mail addresses, and only half of those work, that's still 500,000 working e-Mail addresses,... [20 Jun 2009]
Solve the spam problem: Independent test report proves new approach achieves 99.997% spam catch rate
White Paper What is needed is advanced technologies that can defeat spam reliably, minimize the number of false positives, not be rendered obsolete by new spammer techniques, and be deployed and managed inexpensively. [06 Jun 2009]
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... [18 Mar 2009]
Search 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. [18 Mar 2009]
Anonymous Symantec patch gets firewalls on the alert
News At the same time we were pulling down the patch a spammer created a new account on our forum and minutes after that there were 200 new users all targeting the same thread," he said. Symantec released a patch for some of... [11 Mar 2009]
What to Do if You Are Blacklisted
White Paper Distributed Mail Blacklists are databases used by different systems to decide if the IP connecting to a certain mail server is a known spammer/pharmer or one known to send invalid messages. These systems aim to improve... [13 Feb 2009]
The Fight Against Spam - A Machine Learning Approach
White Paper Some well-mapped spammer tricks are also described, although the imagination of spam distributors is endless, and therefore only the most common tricks are covered. The paper presents a brief survey of the fight between... [28 Nov 2008]
