Spam Filtering
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Spam's carbon footprint: 1 e-mail like driving 3 feet
News Report finds energy used annually to delete spam and rescue legitimate e-mail is equal to greenhouse gas emissions from 3.1 million cars.
Tags: Spam filtering, Spam and phishing, Spam, greenhouse gas emission, Carbon Footprint, e-mail spam, greenhouse gas, e-mail, spam filtering, spam message
Spam techniques now 'triple threat'
News Spammers are combining their circumvention techniques to increase the efficacy of attacks, according to security company Symantec.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Spam filtering, Security implementation/standards, Malware, MessageLabs Ltd., Domain, Spam, Spammer, social networking, Symantec Corp.
S'pore spam rate crosses global average
News Country's spam levels surpassed the global rate of 89.4 percent in July, after dipping below earlier in April, according to MessageLabs' latest security report.
Tags: Spam filtering, Spam and phishing, MessageLabs Ltd., Spam, Singapore, social networking, spam message, Symantec Corp., Germany, Web Address
A practical example of why HTML e-mail is a bad idea
Techguide Viewing e-mail messages without rendering HTML formatted content can be a simple, easy, and effective security technique.
Tags: E-mail servers, Network security, Security Management, Phishing, Microsoft Corp., PayPal, Domain Name, CompTIA, font, Chad Perrin
MessageLabs: Short URLs in e-mail spam spikes
News E-mail spam that includes truncated Web addresses sees a dramatic increase, MessageLabs says.
Tags: Hacking, Spam and phishing, Security applications/tools, Domain names, Spam filtering, Twitter, Malware, MessageLabs Ltd., Spam, Social Media
Flaw turns Gmail into spamming machine
News A "serious security flaw" in Gmail allows spammers to send thousands of bulk e-mail messages through Google's SMTP service, according to a recent report.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Data security, Security, Google Inc., Internet Access, Spamming, Information Security, Flaw, e-mail, spam filtering
Spam filter helps fight cyber bullying
News Brunel University based in west of London, has adapted its spam filter to help fight e-mail bullying, in addition to getting rid of spam messages.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Spam filtering, Spam
MS Windows Small Business Server 2003 Standard Edition - Complete package - 1 server, 5 clients - STD - CD/DVD
Product Reviews MS Windows Small Business Server 2003 Standard Edition - Complete package - 1 server, 5 clients - STD - CD/DVD
Tags: Small Business, DVD, Wizard, Server, network, Microsoft Windows, value-added reseller, Microsoft Outlook, firewall, CD
Google image search gets usage rights filtering
News Google updates its image search to let users filter by images they can reuse and repurpose, which may keep the search giant from getting into hot water with content creators.
Tags: Copyright, Spam filtering, Regulations, Data Management, Creative Commons, Google Inc., Tool, Wikipedia, photograph, image search
Spam: You just can't win
News No real solutions arise at the Information Security Best Practices conference at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Tags: Spam, Spam and phishing, Spam filtering, Regulations, Tool, social engineering, Comcast Corp., e-mail, CAN-SPAM Act, Internet Service Provider
Facebook awarded US$873M in spam case
News In largest judgment in history of the U.S. Can-Spam Act, Canadian man is ordered to pay the company US$873 million for allegedly spamming Facebook users.
Tags: Spam filtering, Lawsuits, MySpace, Anti-spam, social networking, e-mail, spam message, Facebook, CAN-SPAM Act, marketing
Developers launch anti-Phorm 'noise' tool
News A privacy group has launched an anti-targeted-advert tool in the shape of AntiPhormLite.
Tags: Internet advertising, Spam filtering, Web services, Tool, Developer, Advertisement, Mozilla Firefox, Internet User, Privacy Advocacy Group, Web browser plug-in
Microsoft to patch zero-day SMB, IIS holes
News Microsoft pushes back the release of the antimalware software until the second half of next year, but says related security releases are on track.
Tags: Data security, Business applications, Antivirus software, Spam filtering, Server Message Block, Microsoft IIS Server, Microsoft Corp., Business applications, Windows Server 2008 R2, Small And Medium Business
Facebook disables 6 rogue phishing apps, but 5 more appear
News Rogue applications keep cropping up that are sending Facebook users to a phishing site, stealing passwords, and then spamming users' friends.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Spam filtering, Phishing, App, Spamming, Trend Micro Inc., Phishing Web Site, photograph, Facebook, researcher
Spammy scams surfacing on Twitter, Facebook
News Users on Twitter report direct messages that lead to phishing page, while Facebook users are getting links to a malware site.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Spam filtering, Facebook, Google Inc., Phishing, Malware, Twitter Inc., Phishing Web Site, Password, e-mail
