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RSS spammersHow Does the State of Spam Affect Your Small Business?
White Paper Spammers use popular events to cover their tracks? The recent death of Michael Jackson and its subsequent public interest show that spammers are willing to use any notable event as a cover to distribute... [29 Aug 2009]
Spam, Spammers, and Spam Control
White Paper Just about anybody with an email address knows about spam and spam filters - or at least they think they do. However, it is a complex subject, with far more to it than meets the eye. This Ferris Research white paper looks at spam: what... [15 Aug 2009]
Was Twitter, Facebook denial-of-service the result of attack on a single account?
News Spammers send emails with malicious attachments or URLs to millions of people to create botnets. A Georgian blogger with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal and Google's Blogger and YouTube was targeted in a... [07 Aug 2009]
The Advantages of a Hosted Security Model
White Paper The growing volumes of spam, viruses, worms, Trojans, blended threats and other issues, coupled with more sophisticated attacks from spammers and others, necessitates that organizations have robust and adaptable defenses... [31 Jul 2009]
Building the Right Infrastructure for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007: Smart Strategies to Support Growth, Lower Costs, and Deliver Business Continuity
White Paper And, mail systems are further at risk due to the frequency at which they are under attack by spammers and viruses. Email has rapidly evolved to become an essential tool for most businesses and organizations - and now... [31 Jul 2009]
Spam, Botnets and Spyware - An Overview of the Current Threat Landscape
White Paper And who are the current big spammers and what are they planning next? The presenter of this webcast will discuss what to look out for next in terms of spam attacks against the network. With a consistently evolving threat... [30 Jul 2009]
Microsoft takes aim at alleged IM spammers and phishers
News Microsoft is bringing out the big guns to combat instant message spam - known as spim - and phishing attacks done to users of its Live Messenger network. The software giant filed a civil lawsuit Thursday in King County Superior Court in... [17 Jul 2009]
Short URLs on spammers' hit-lists
News Shortened URLs, which allow spammers to hide the real web address from web surfers and are commonly used on social media sites like Twitter where message character length is restricted, began a sharp rise last week and... [08 Jul 2009]
Attachment Spam - The Latest Trend: Spammers Using Common File Formats as Attachments for Pump and-Dump Scams
White Paper In the space of two months, spammers have switched from image spam to using PDF, Excel and ZIP file attachments. By using these attachments to send images instead of embedding them in the body of the email message,... [01 Jul 2009]
An In-depth Analysis of Spam and Spammers
White Paper This paper studies the characteristics of spam and the technology used by spammers. In order to counter anti spam technology, spammers change their mode of operation, therefore continues evaluation of... [01 Jul 2009]
Spam Double-Funnel: Connecting Web Spammers With Advertisers
White Paper Spammers use questionable Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques to promote their spam links into top search results. They propose a five-layer, double-funnel model for describing end-to-end redirection spam,... [01 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... [01 Jul 2009]
Spam, Phishing, and the Looming Challenge of Big Botnets
White Paper As anti-spam and anti-phishing defenses improve, there is more than sufficient financial motivation for spammers and phishers to consider what they can accomplish with enormous scale. They describe possible attacks by... [01 Jul 2009]
Spam Filtering Using Inexact String Matching in Explicit Feature Space With On-Line Linear Classifiers
White Paper Contemporary spammers commonly seek to defeat statistical spam filters through the use of word obfuscation. Such methods include character level substitutions, repetitions, and insertions to reduce the effectiveness of... [01 Jul 2009]
Robust PageRank and Locally Computable Spam Detection Features
White Paper Since the link structure of the web is an important element in ranking systems on search engines, web spammers widely use the link structure of the web to increase the rank of their pages. Various link-based features of... [01 Jul 2009]
