Turing test challenges spam filters
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Fuzzy PDF menace Spammers have turned a widely-used anti-spam trick - fuzzy text that computers cannot recognise - to their own advantage, according to the head of an anti-spam software developer.â¦
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PDF ruse attempts to smuggle junk past spam filters The fraudsters behind pump-and-dump stock spams are trying a new technique in a bid to fool spam filters. Junk mails promoting worthless stocks seen this week are appearing with an attached PDF file.â¦
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A screensaver targeting spam-related websites could help drive spammers out of business.
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Opt-out button in spam used to run exploit
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Several Internet companies, including Microsoft and eBay, are working on new ways to keep spammers from infiltrating their sites.
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We can now glimpse what had once seemed unattainable: stopping the exorbitant flow of spam at its very source.
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Spam messages are increasingly plaguing e-mail inboxes, but more Internet users are accepting them as a fact of life, a new study has found.
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The Internet Engineering Task Force has raised concerns about Microsoft&#39;s Sender ID anti-spam technolgy as an industry standard.
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New software allows recipients of spam to band together to target known websites behind the messages. The idea is to bombard the sites with messages, slowing them down and making them more expensive to run.
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ALTHOUGH Microsoft&#39;s anti-spam sender-ID is disliked by Open Sources, it is providing popular with the very people it is targeted against.
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Lycos vigilante attack on spammers has been hit by a vigilante attack. Spammers are suspected.
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Spam mail has become one of the biggest problems on the Internet; it consumes precious bandwidth, wastes computer resources, and causes huge financial losses to corporations.
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Spammers have adopted a new standard for email authentication much faster than legitimate emailers, according to a study from security appliance firm CipherTrust published this week.
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Try not to smile: A top spammer may be sentenced to hard time.
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With spam amounting to about 80% of total email traffic, you think that Bill Gates would have thought up some fantastic way of filtering it.
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Plans to combat spam are in trouble because Microsoft wants too much power, argues technology analyst Bill Thompson. The internet relies on a large number of technical standards which define in precise and
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Spammers are a key adopter of a technology meant, in part, to fight spam.