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InternetNews March 18, 2010 Stuart J. Johnston |
What Microsoft Learned From Botnet Takedown Even software giant Microsoft had trouble corralling the Waledac malware-spreading botnight.  |
InternetNews January 26, 2011 |
Spam Volume Tumbles in January New report from security software vendor Symantec reveals that worldwide spam traffic fell to a two-year low in January, largely due to a sharp decline in pharmaceutical spam.  |
InternetNews February 25, 2010 |
Microsoft Scores Win Against Waledac Botnet Microsoft obtains temporary injunction ordering shut down of 277 Internet domains suspected of orchestrating massive "Waledac" botnet, one of the nation's 10 largest.  |
Bank Systems & Technology March 7, 2005 Cynthia Ramsaran |
Canning Spam Something as simple as spam can slow a bank's operations. For Providence-based Bank of Rhode Island, the volume of spam clogging employees' e-mail in-boxes became a drag on productivity.  |
InternetNews May 26, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Spam Now More Than 90% of All E-Mail Spammers are increasingly directing users to compromised social networks while botnets' influence grows, according to MessageLabs.  |
InternetNews July 1, 2009 David Needle |
Google Spouts Scary Spam Stats Google digs deep to uncover the latest spam trends.  |
InternetNews December 8, 2009 |
Brazil Edges U.S. as Top Spammer in Cisco Report Spam volume in the U.S. decreased in 2009, though it's still enormous.  |
InternetNews August 16, 2004 Jim Wagner |
Postini Beefs Up Perimeter Defenses The managed e-mail security firm adds features that free administrators of much of the hassle in dealing with spam while giving individual users more control over their settings.  |
PC Magazine February 1, 2008 Sarah Pike |
What's in Your Inbox The inside scoop on how much e-mail in your inbox is or isn't spam.  |
InternetNews February 2, 2011 |
Rustock, Phishing Scams Boost Spam in January A flurry of new malicious spam campaigns and the return of the Rustock botnet elevated spam activity in latter half of January.  |
InternetNews March 7, 2008 Andy Patrizio |
Is The Storm Worm Finally Blowing Over? A report by e-mail and content security firm Marshal claims that just six botnets are responsible for almost 90 percent of spam, but others in the spam filtering business disagree with the report's findings.  |
T.H.E. Journal August 2004 |
Spam Sleuth Enterprise Helping keep e-mail inboxes spam-free is the goal of this Blue Squirre offering, which is an anti-spam server solution that resides on an e-mail server or as a separate server to screen out spam before it reaches the internal mail server.  |
InternetNews May 14, 2004 Robyn Greenspan |
The Deadly Duo: Spam and Viruses, April 2004 The spam volume is rising, e-mail trust is eroding, and viruses are rampant, but Internet users are sending more legitimate messages and CAN-SPAM is making a positive impact.  |
InternetNews November 15, 2010 |
Malicious Spam Surges in 3Q: Report Kaspersky Lab report finds the volume of malicious spam soared in the third quarter, keeping security software firms and consumers on high alert.  |
InternetNews May 19, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Spammers Find 'Healthy' New Tactics With Acai Zombie networks and botnets are ramping up spam and using sophisticated filter penetration tactics -- to sell Acai drinks?  |
PC Magazine March 2, 2005 Cade Metz |
The Spam Stoppers If you don't have a spam filter or you're having trouble running the one you do have, you might consider outsourcing the task.  |
InternetNews August 4, 2010 |
Spam Looking More Like Legitimate Email With spam levels surging, it's also becoming harder for users to identify it, according to a new survey.  |
InternetNews March 18, 2011 |
Rustock Botnet Beaten Down by Microsoft On the heels of last year's successful takedown of another giant botnet, Microsoft just shut down a bigger and more sophisticated botnet this week.  |
PC Magazine March 2, 2005 Larry Seltzer |
Who's Winning the Spam War? AOL says its users are getting less spam. Can this be true? Is this because of its technology, or the effective legal action it takes against spammers?  |
PC Magazine September 16, 2003 Larry J. Seltzer |
Do-It-Yourself Spam Fighting Some e-mail services provide spam filtering, but perhaps the better approach is a spam-filtering service that also gives you an e-mail account.  |
AskMen.com Ross Bonander |
4 Steps: Eliminate Spam Before your inbox gets hit one more time, read up on our four steps to eliminate spam.  |
PC Magazine March 28, 2008 Neil J. Rubenking |
Cloudmark Desktop 5.3.3 for Microsoft Outlook With a little help from you, Cloudmark's community-based spam filter blocks spam while leaving your valid mail alone.  |
InternetNews March 16, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Report Says Spam Arms Race Escalating The bad guys are recovering from the loss of McColo and learning how to prevent being taken down so easily again.  |
InternetNews September 13, 2010 |
Enterprises Recover From 'Here You Have' Virus One of the most potent email-based viruses in years had enterprise IT managers scrambling over the weekend to get their email servers back in top form.  |
InternetNews January 26, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
New Botnets Emerge as Older Peers Limp Along A changing of the guard has taken place among spam-spewing botnets. Who are some of the ones to watch?  |
Wall Street & Technology March 2, 2004 Jim Middlemiss |
IT Challenge: Spam The Challenge: Junk e-mail is becoming a big problem, as spammers clog inboxes with dubious offerings from weight-loss remedies to cheap Viagra. How to filter the spam without filtering important e-mails is a problem.  |
InternetNews January 12, 2011 |
U.S. Leads Pack in Spam Traffic in 4Q PCs and mobile devices in the U.S. accounted for nearly one in five spam messages in the fourth quarter, according to security software vendor Sophos.  |
CIO November 15, 2002 Meridith Levinson |
Seething over Spam New tools and legislation can help--but nothing can stop it all  |
InternetNews February 2, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner |
A Sobering Report on Viruses According to an analysis by Postini of 150 billion e-mail messages sent in 2005, e-mail-borne viruses represented 2.5 percent of all inbound e-mail messages.  |
Inc. June 2007 Michael Fitzgerald |
The Best Spam Fighters Six ways to protect your E-mail.  |
InternetNews April 16, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Spam's Carbon Footprint Worse Than 2.3M Cars In a new report, McAfee describes the price the planet itself pays for spam and makes a strong case for better spam filters.  |
InternetNews July 15, 2009 |
Spam Not So Profitable? Despite sending millions of messages each day, botnet operators and spam marketers rake in less than one might think.  |
InternetNews July 23, 2010 |
Cisco Tags U.S. as Spam Leader In its 2010 mid-year security report, networking heavyweight Cisco concluded that the United States ranks No. 1 in originating spam messages, and warns on IT policy compliance.  |
InternetNews November 8, 2010 |
Spam Surges 28 Percent in October: AppRiver Hundreds of millions of spam emails were distributed every day in October and most of them originated in the United States.  |
PC Magazine August 16, 2006 John C. Dvorak |
John C. Dvorak v25n15 The only cure for spam is for people never to buy anything from a spammer, but apparently there are always dummies who do.  |
InternetNews February 4, 2004 Janis Mara |
Cloudmark Provides Spam Filtering for Openwave Hoping to help head off the wireless spam threat, mobile software maker Openwave teams up with Cloudmark.  |
Reason November 2004 Jeff A. Taylor |
Spamming Voters Political spam has steadily increased during the election year, suggesting that it could make up 5 percent of all spam going into 2005. Such spam is exempt from the requirements of the CAN-SPAM Act, which regulates only "commercial" messages.  |
InternetNews July 4, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner |
Image-based Spam on the Rise Among the lead culprits in the spam overflow is a new take on an old technique called image-based spam.  |
CIO November 1, 2003 Alice Dragoon |
Be a Spam Slayer The ubiquitous awfulness of spam affords CIOs a rare opportunity to look good. Here's how CIOs can leap into the spam fray and keep e-mail viable and valuable for users.  |
PC Magazine July 9, 2004 Neil J. Rubenking |
Antispam Tools: Can They Keep Up? Antispam products have to get tougher to stay ahead of the game.  |
InternetNews June 18, 2010 |
Microsoft Suing Hotmail Spammers Software giant goes to court to take down the orchestrators of what it describes as the "largest ever" spam attacks on its Windows Live Hotmail service.  |
InternetNews July 30, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
Trend Micro Readies Security SaaS Antivirus developer Trend Micro said it's ready to take on some big names with its new SecureCloud Software-as-a-Service security platform for businesses.  |
InternetNews April 1, 2008 Judy Mottl |
Mobile Spam Threat Worth Keeping a Watchful Eye Right now carriers are doing the anti-spam lifting but things could change.  |
PC Magazine May 4, 2004 Gabrielle Gagnon |
Detecting Spam Bayesian filters use probability theory to determine if messages are legit. Will big numbers help stop the spam flood?  |
InternetNews November 17, 2010 |
Stuxnet, Mobile Threats Top 3Q Malware Report Security software vendor McAfee's 3Q Threats Report takes note of some older malware scams from the past and some new and discouraging new ones.  |
InternetNews December 29, 2005 Roy Mark |
AOL: Spam Down, Sophisticated Methods Up 'Spam mafia gangs' continue to mislead and deceive e-mail users.  |
InternetNews April 13, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
IDC: Spam To Rocket Past Legit E-Mail This Year A new report by IDC says that spam could surpass legitimate e-mail in terms of volume this year as unsolicited e-mail continues to explode and e-mail falls out of favor as a means of communication.  |
PC Magazine November 11, 2003 Larry J. Seltzer |
Enterprise Spam Tools: Several Approaches, Including Some That Work Client-side spam utilities like Norton AntiSpam 2004 are fine for home users, but any business large enough to have a mail server needs something more: a server-side solution that traps spam before it hits employees' in-boxes.  |
InternetNews July 29, 2009 |
Spam Learns a New Language While spam levels are at their highest levels in years, much of it is the same - just translated for different countries.  |
InternetNews January 27, 2005 Jim Wagner |
Postini: Spam Building Muscle Trends in e-mail security threats in 2004 point to more difficulties in 2005.  |