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White Paper For very little investment and effort, spammers can reach millions of potential customers, and just 100 responses out of 10 million can turn them a profit. Because spamming can be so lucrative, spammers... [13 Nov 2009]
Risk at Home: Privacy and Security Risks in Telecommuting
White Paper It is difficult enough to secure a corporate network with the constant and persistent threat from malicious external parties, from hackers to spammers to viruses. But for the chief technology officer or chief risk... [13 Nov 2009]
5 Steps Every Business Can Take to Guard Against Botnets
White Paper By secretly invading business Internet connections, hackers and spammers can download harmful software, including spyware and computer viruses, onto computers and laptops. Robot networks and zombie armies may sound like... [13 Nov 2009]
Turning the Tide With Concentric Perimeter Email Protection
White Paper Most solutions use technologies that suffer serious limitations and that can be successfully circumvented by spammers and other criminals. Turning the tide of spam and other email threats that are destroying the business... [13 Nov 2009]
Keeping Your Members Safe From Online Scams and Predators
White Paper Security is a major challenge for internet dating sites, which can attract scammers, spammers, stalkers and predators, not to mention fraudsters there to mine other members' identities. Each year, more and more people... [13 Nov 2009]
Why Organizations Need to Focus on Outbound Security
White Paper Spammers today send most spam through botnets, making sources of spam much more difficult to detect and stop. Email has become the most critical single application that individuals in the workplace use on a daily basis. [13 Nov 2009]
When Reputation Is Not Enough: Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall Predictive Sender Profiling
White Paper Today, while the volume of image spam has remained stable, spammers have significantly increased the usage of yet another technique - sender identity obfuscation. As spam continues to evolve, Barracuda Networks remains... [13 Nov 2009]
10 Sneaky Things a Spammer Will Do: Just When You Thought Your Inbox Was Safe?
White Paper Spammers can make money with email spam. Most spammers are just sales people looking for an avenue to sell their products or services. Sending out email is cheap and believe it or not some people do... [12 Nov 2009]
Proofpoint MLX Whitepaper: Machine Learning to Beat Spam Today... and Tomorrow
White Paper As spammers employ increasingly sophisticated techniques to avoid detection by the antispam rules and heuristics currently in widespread use, these simplistic anti-spam solutions have become less and less effective. [12 Nov 2009]
IronPort's Multi-Layer Spam Defense Architectural Overview
White Paper These systems share a common weakness - relying heavily on analyzing content that can easily be manipulated by spammers. IronPort Anti-Spam combines best-of-breed conventional techniques with IronPort's breakthrough... [12 Nov 2009]
A Psychological Analysis of Common Email Scams
White Paper Indeed, scam-spammers appear to believe there are "Suckers born every second? The very large number of unsolicited marketing messages reaching Email users on a daily - if not hourly - basis is more than bothersome for... [12 Nov 2009]
Internet Security Trends for 2007: A Report on Spam, Viruses and Spyware
White Paper Spammers created triple the volume of image-based spam. At the highest level, 2006 saw an increase in both the sophistication and the volume of Internet security threats. This threat has a dual effect on infrastructure:... [12 Nov 2009]
How 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]
