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- Staying Ahead of Spammers With Symantec Solutions
- During the period January - June 2005, spam made up over 61% of all email traffic, a slight increase over the second half of 2004. As spam continues to proliferate, businesses have been forced to protect themselves from lost employee productivity, unnecessary, potential legal liability, and increased burden on resources...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Spammer, E-mail, Spam, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing
- Webcasts
- Junk Mail and Spammers Meet Their Match in Outlook
- Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 is serious about protecting the user's privacy - and the Inbox. The new Junk E-mail Filter can block the punches that annoying spammers try to deliver to the Inbox each day. The user control the level of protection the filter provides. And if an important message...
- Tags: Spammer, Microsoft Corp., Junk E-mail, Microsoft Office Outlook 2003, Spam, Microsoft Outlook, Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Office, Security, Spam And Phishing, Office Suites, Software, Marketing
- Webcasts
- Spammers must correct their wrongdoing
- From a BBC News article a few days ago (24 March 08) :"China is investigating a spam attack after almost half of China's mobile phone users received unwanted text messages from advertisers. Text messages were sent to more than 200 million mobile phone users through China Mobile and its smaller...
- Tags: China, Mobile, Spammer, Cell Phone, Attack, NDR, Spam, E-mail, Cyberthreats, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications, Tim Malone
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- The terrible curse of spam
- No, I'm not talking about the kind that comes in a can. Spam is the common name given to unwanted e-mails. If you use a computer then you know what I'm talking about. They are Stupid Pointless Annoying Messages. Some are insidious in the way that they appeal to the...
- Tags: Spammer, Computer, E-mail, Cyberthreats, Spam, Productivity, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, Tim Malone
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
- Orbit SecureMyEmail (zip)
- OrbitSME is an easy & effective method to secure your email address from spammers & bots. The concept of the project is simple, we hide your email address from spammers & bots while allowing users the ability to email you from their default email clients. This version is the first...
- Tags: Spammer, Bot, E-mail Address, Orbit Services, OrbitSME, E-mail, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2007-10-24
- Does UC present new opportunities for spammers?
- As we head into a new year, 2008 promises to bring about revolutionary changes in the ways we use familiar communications tools. The premise of the coming integration of different forms of messaging -- e-mail, voice, IM -- into unified communications systems is exciting. UC makes it easy to get...
- Tags: Telemarketing, VoIP, Phone, Spammer, Voicemail, News, UC, Spam, Cyberthreats, Telecom & Utilities, E-mail, Telecommunications, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications, Deb Shinder
- Blog posts 2008-01-04
- SPAM and SPIT: what are the dangers?
- People are concerned about getting SPIT in their ears these days. Deb Shinder just wrote about how UC might present new opportunities for spammers today. People look at the new means of communicating with a warm fuzzy feeling inside, rushing to adopt new communications technologies for cost savings,...
- Tags: Spammer, IP Telephony, IP, E-mail, Encryption, VOIP, Telephony, Telecommunications, Networking, Chad Perrin
- Blog posts 2008-01-04
- Spammers target 'guilty conscience' to get users to download malware
- Commtech, an Israeli security firm, has detected spam that targets users with e-mails that impinge on their conscience to get them to download malware. An excerpt from Network World: "Preying on people's guilty conscience with a virus is an ingenious trick of social engineering," says Rebecca...
- Tags: Spammer, Malware, Conscience, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, E-mail, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-11-21
- Spammers target 'guilty conscience' to get users to download malware
- Spammers target 'guilty conscience'Lucky for me on two counts then.1) malware doesn't seem to be a problem for linux. :p2) I have no concience when it comes to my actions, I don't hide them from public view to begin with.Curiosity sounds more accurate than guiltwouldn't you be curious if...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, spam, Jaqui, sympathy, spammer, malware
- Discussion threads 2007-11-21
- MessageLabs Intelligence: October 2007--"MP3 Stock Spam Is Up...More Spammers Sent Down"
- Top line results of this report include: Spam - 74.5% in October (an increase of 1% since September) Viruses - One in 161.5 emails in October contained malware (a decrease of 1.4% since September) Phishing - One in 174.0 emails comprised a phishing attack (a...
- Tags: Adobe PDF, Spammer, MessageLabs Ltd., MP3, Cyberthreats, Spam, Phishing, Security, Spam And Phishing
- White papers 2007-11-01
- Stock spammers switch to MP3 files
- Stock spammers are probably running out of luck with image and PDF spam. In the latest twist, they are now trying out spamming by means of sending out MP3 files. Posing as music from famous stars, they in fact contain a monotone voice asking the listener...
- Tags: Stock, Spammer, MP3, Digital Music, Digital Media, Spam, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Security, Spam And Phishing, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-10-19
- Another spammer convicted
- Todd Moeller, a 28 year old man from New Jersey was jailed for over 2 years on Friday for the part he played in a spamming operation that delivered millions of unsolicited bulk e-mails.The New York judge sentenced Moeller to a 27-month jail term and issued a fine of $180,000...
- Tags: Spammer, Spamming, Todd Moeller, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Justin Fielding
- Blog posts 2007-11-04
- Spammers use YouTube as conduit
- Spammers are using the "friends invite" link on YouTube to route unsolicited e-mails. The e-mails appear to come from the e-mail address service@youtube.com, getting through spam filters that take the source to be legitimate. Here's a quote from an article at techworld: "Spammers are doing this to defeat...
- Tags: Spammer, Spam Filter, YouTube Inc., Spam, E-mail, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-10-08
- Spammers target antispam sites
- It's the battle of Good vs. Evil. Antispam community sites are being targeted with Denial of Service attacks by what is believed to be the same group that is behind the storm worm bot. A quote from the article at Ars Technica:...
- Tags: Denial Of Service, Supercomputer, Anti-spam, Spammer, Attack, Antispam Site, Spam, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-09-12
- Judge denies porn spammers' request for a new trial
- Do you know what's worse than spam? Porn spam. Lots and lots of porn spam. Recently in the news, a couple of convicted porn spammers tried to file for an acquittal or a new trial. See News.com's Police Blotter report: "Porn spammers' guilty verdict upheld." According to...
- Tags: Spammer, Trial, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Sonja Thompson
- Blog posts 2007-09-07
- Spammers leveraging YouTube e-mail address
- Spammers are abusing the "Invite Your Friends" system to send out "massive quantities of spam," according to content security outfit Marshall. The facility was intended to allow users to invite their friends to view videos that they they find interesting or have posted. It looks like spammers...
- Tags: Spammer, YouTube Inc., E-mail Address, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-10-05
- Attachment Spam - The Latest Trend
- This white paper explains what makes spam such an unbearable problem and how spamming tactics are evolving daily to beat anti-spam software. 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...
- Tags: Anti-spam, Spammer, GFI Software Ltd., Spamming, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing
- White papers 2007-08-10
- TechRepublic are effing spammers
- Your site TechRepublic appears legit and actually contains useful information. However you keep sending me multiple emails per day with all kinds of updates and summaries. All emails offer very clear instructions of how to get rid of them but it only results in a nice confirmation of my unsubscribing...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Spam, geert-jan.thomas@..., TR Staff, spammer, e-mail, newsletter
- Discussion threads 2007-09-14
- Spammers target antispam sites
- Computing power of the Strom Worm BotStorm Worm Bot a sign of major threat in the future?RE: Spammers target antispam sitesyes, but you will still have the die hard left wingers saying. Don't do this to stop this spam/trojen nets, you will encroach on our privacy rights. Doesn't...
- Tags: Spam, SECURITY, pr.arun@..., spammer, antispam site, anti-spam
- Discussion threads 2007-09-12
- Spammers delendo est!
- Happy Days Are Here Again! The alleged Seattle Spammer is indicted, booked and docketed for trial on 6 August 2007. Anyone want to bet the defense will try a change of venue motion, to move the trial out of the Silicon Forest to someplace less Internet-manic than...
- Tags: Spammer, Computer Science, Internet, E-mail, Spam, Homeland Security, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, Government, John Bartley K7AAY
- Blog posts 2007-06-01
