spam

A New Approach to Defeating Spam-an Osterman Research Whitepaper

wickram — Fri, 23 May 2008 13:08:59 +0100

Abaca Technology Corporation, an innovator in email protection and messaging security, announced today that a new white paper by Osterman Research, a leading analyst firm that specializes in topics related to messaging and collaboration, is now available on the Abaca Web site. Titled "A New Approach to Defeating Spam," the white paper describes the problems caused by spam, the techniques spammers use to circumvent conventional anti-spam solutions, and the new paradigm Abaca has developed to combat spam.

Postini Message Security administration guide

ubuntU — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:04:35 +0100

This guide contains detailed information for setting up and administering your email security service. It’s intended for administrators of the Postini email security service, and assumes that you are familiar with administering email services for an organization.

PDF Spam: Spam Evolves, PDF becomes the Latest Threat

philh — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 11:48:13 +0000

For years, image spam has been very popular, with spammers using a variety of different techniques to randomise their images, making detection more difficult. As both MessageLabs and the wider anti-spam community have improved their image processing techniques, spammers are increasingly switching to a new format: PDF

Sophos Security threat report

philh — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:29:39 +0100

The first six months of 2007 continued 2006’s trend of rapidly mutating virus and spam campaigns. Small targeted attacks were favored rather than the large-scale, high-profile attacks of a few years ago. The web in particular continued to be a growing and significant source of threats, being overrun with Trojans, spyware and adware, potentially unwanted applications and undesirable websites.

GoSecure

Messagelabs Guide to Messaging security

philh — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:28:17 +0100

This guide dives into the importance of messaging security around the desktop and then it goes into the three additional components of anti-spam, IM, and web security.