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The Newest Front in the Anti-Spam Wars

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As spammers dream up new strategies for slithering into e-mail inboxes worldwide, their counterparts, anti-spam software developers, are always on the lookout for new ways to stop them cold. A bevy of companies think they may have a good answer in . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 05, 2003

Are We Outsmarting Spam

The fight against spam doesn't promise to ring up more revenue or slash the costs of doing business. But make no mistake: Fighting spam has become a priority for most businesses, and the backlash is leaving business-technology execs with no choice. . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 04, 2003

Net anonymity service un-backdoored

The Java Anonymous Proxy (JAP) service, a collaborative effort of Dresden University of Technology, Free University Berlin and the Independent Centre for Privacy Protection Schleswig-Holstein, Germany (ICPP), has been allowed to suspend its monitoring of users' IP traffic pending a decision . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 01, 2003

Safeguarding Email Productivity

Elaine submits An overview of today's increasing spam problem, and the measures that organizations are taking to prevent and protect against it. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 28, 2003

Measuring Up

Elaine submits Measuring Up: Evaluating the Return on Investment (ROI) of Spam Filtering (PDF). A guide to the factors you should consider when choosing an effective email management and security solution. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 28, 2003

Amazon Sues Spam Spoofers

Amazon.com has sued 11 entities in the United States and Canada for forging its domain name in their e-mail spam messages, the company has announced. The lawsuits represent the latest salvo in Amazon's fight to suppress and eradicate such spoofing. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 28, 2003

Identity Theft: It's Not About You

Technology is a real time-saver for criminals. They can scam thousands of less-savvy Internet users by sending legitimate-looking PayPal or AOL queries. Mail promising recipients incredible mortgage rates must rake in piles of Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, and bank . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 25, 2003

Legislation Has Spam on the Run

Though spam has attracted the attention of Congress for several years, legislation aimed at stopping its flow has yet to be passed. This year, however, could be different. A total of seven anti-spam bills have been introduced into Congress since . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 19, 2003

Online Document Search Reveals Secrets

Many documents published online may unintentionally reveal sensitive corporate or personal information, according to a US computer researcher. Simon Byers, at AT&T's research laboratory in the US, was able to unearth hidden information from many thousands of Microsoft Word documents . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 19, 2003

Why Your ID Is Such Easy Picking

Identity theft skyrocketed 81% in 2002, a statistic so shocking that it seemed unreal -- until it happened to my sister. Last weekend, she had her wallet pinched. Within six hours, the thieves, clearly professionals, had charged $5,000 to each of . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 15, 2003

Research Suggests New Way To Can Spam

Internet Service Providers (ISPs) should lower their monthly fees if they permit spam to reach their paying customers, say researchers at the University of Missouri in Columbia (UMC). In the brave new world of lower access fees in exchange for . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 12, 2003

Spam and Viruses: Unholy Matrimony, Part 2

Last week in part 1 we looked at some rather extreme measures for keeping that demeritorious duo, spam and viruses, off our servers. Today we'll look at how to secure your users' email clients. The reason for employing layers of security . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 12, 2003

Winning the War on Spam: Comparison of Bayesian SPAM Filters

Spam e-mail has become an ever increasing problem, and these days it is next to impossible to use e-mail without receiving it in large amounts. Various techniques exits to combat the problem; keyword-based filters, source blacklists, signature blacklists, source verification and . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 11, 2003

The Bandwagon to Fight Spam Hits a Bump

Unwanted e-mail advertising has become the latest quality-of-life nuisance -- not unlike squeegee men -- that politicians love to attack. This spring, a consensus on spam seemed to be emerging among House and Senate leaders, Internet service providers and the direct . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 11, 2003

Out, Out, Damned Spam

It was May, 1978. Lauren Weinstein was among those developing an early version of the Internet when an e-mail popped into his box. It was the first spam ever -- a pitch from Digital Equipment Corp. sent, literally, to everyone on . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 07, 2003

Spam and Viruses: Unholy Matrimony, Part 1

Make no mistake about it -- spam and viruses are deliberate, malicious assaults on our systems that often work together to penetrate and compromise our networks. A popular dirty trick by spammers is to plant malicious code in their spew to . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 06, 2003

The Folly of Antispam Legislation

From a spam-viewing perspective, the average citizen, it would seem, is aging, balding, out of shape, impotent, undereducated and has incurred significant credit card debt through online encounters with other lusty members of the human race. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 05, 2003

End of the Road for SMTP

The protocol that has defined e-mail for more than two decades may have a fatal flaw: It trusts you. Developed when the Internet was used almost exclusively by academics, the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, or SMTP, assumes that you are . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 01, 2003

Antispam Bills: Worse Than Spam

While no one has sympathy for the devils that fill inboxes with promises of lower mortgages and larger members, not everyone is supporting the new movement to banish spammers from the Internet. Some online advocates worry that heavy-handed antispam measures, . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 31, 2003

FBI targets Net Phoning

Internet telephone calls are fast becoming a national security threat that must be countered with new police wiretap rules, according to an FBI proposal presented quietly to regulators this month. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 30, 2003

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