Spam Spikes: A Real Risk to Your Business
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(Source: MessageLabs) It is possible to stop almost every unsolicited email from reaching your network. Outsourcing to a managed anti-spam service, such as MessageLabs, can provide the most cost-effective way of protecting your business against all spam threats.
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The security threats against business-technology systems continue to multiply. Not only do malicious worms and viruses such as Blaster and Bagle continue to wreak havoc, but security pros
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Just when experts thought the spam tide was receding, it did what tides will do. The problem's worse than ever, and image-based attacks using artificial intelligence are to blame.
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Spammers may be about to get a taste of their own medicine. A British company is today launching software that it claims will allow computer users to hit back at the mass mailers who clog up our inboxes with
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Get up-to-date information on handling misdirected bounces- those countless spam emails claiming your company's message couldn't be delivered, when you didn't even send one in the first place!
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Much of the trouble centered on phishing, a type of attack where fake Web pages are constructed to harvest log-in details, credit card numbers or other personal information. And, oh yes, spam is back.
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The increase in spam that arrives with an attached image in order to evade spam filters has caused the amount of bandwidth spam eats to skyrocket.  About 50% of unwanted email is now image spam up from about 2% in September last year, according to Postini, a hosted email security provider.
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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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Fast, intelligent, automatic spam detector using Paul Graham style Bayesian analysis of word counts in spam and non-spam emails. Filtering adapts to personal tastes automatically. No manual rule creation required. This release adds the final missing pieces to the new parser code.  MBX files and Content-Length headers are now supported.  Database cleanup when signals are caught has also been improved.  I would like to move 1.1 into the stable branch fairly soon so if folks would test out this release and report any problems it would be a big help!   The latest release can be found here: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=61201&package_id=73566
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The United States tops the &quot;Dirty Dozen&quot; list of spam-producing countries released by security firm Sophos. &quot;The problem is that there is so much money to be made with spam, and it is very
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Tens of thousands of Windows PCs are being hijacked daily to spread spam and viruses, a study shows.
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A surprising amount of shoppers are willing to buy from spammers, study finds.
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A spammer whom authorities say e-mailed more than 9 billion unwanted advertisements for products like erection pills faces a hefty fine: If he needs headache medication or debt relief there's probably an unsolicited ad in his own inbox.
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A [major spam outbreak] hit the Internet Wednesday causing the stock it was pumping to jump significantly in trading volume, according to communications security company IronPort.
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Some of the net's biggest players such as AOL, Hotmail and Yahoo are stepping up efforts to combat spam.
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Another day, another filter-evading tactic from the spammer. This time, they're pitching their woo in the form of e-mail stationery "backgrounds," which aren't generally scanned by filtering tools. Experts say the trend is rising.
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Online criminals are exploiting human hopes and fears to spread spam and viruses.