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Cybersleuth fights on front lines of war on spam (Houston Chronicle)

September 9th, 2008 · No Comments · blockspam

When a new spam attack occurs, the nation’s cyberdetectives call Gary Warner.
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Secure Computing Readies Customers for Spam Surge With 99 Percent Guarantee (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)

September 9th, 2008 · No Comments · blockspam

Secure Computing Corporation, a leading enterprise gateway security company, today announced the industry’s leading spam detection guarantee, designed to provide US-based customers with the most comprehensive protection during the year’s highest spamming season. Backed by a 99 percent Spam Detection…

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BitTorrent Spam Seeding Trojan Virus (Wired News)

September 9th, 2008 · No Comments · blockspam

Users of BitTorrent freebie tracking services should be on the lookout for spam e-mail containing a trojan virus. The e-mail, sent at random regardless of whether you are a BitTorrent user, contains an attachment that says it has information about…

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Report: Spam accounts for 90% of corporate email (ITP.net)

September 9th, 2008 · No Comments · blockspam

With spam growing 300% year on year, regional companies are at risk of dangerous cyber attacks
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Commtouch Enhances Apache SpamAssassin Spam and Malware Detection with New Plug-In (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

September 9th, 2008 · No Comments · blockspam

SUNNYVALE, Calif.—-Commtouch® today announced the availability of its new plug-in for Apache SpamAssassin™, which offers enhanced spam and malware detection based on Commtouch Recurrent Pattern Detection technology.
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OtherInbox saves your e-mail from bacn, spam at same time (CNET)

September 9th, 2008 · No Comments · blockspam

OtherInbox wants to help you phase out all the bacn you get from various services you’ve signed up for. It looks like an RSS reader, and it’s pretty neat.
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Three major spam waves in August (CIOL)

September 9th, 2008 · No Comments · blockspam

Beware of Madonna, MS & CNN: Secure Computing’s Research team has found three major spam waves in the month of August.
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OtherInbox’s dirty little secret: It comes with free bacn (CNET)

September 9th, 2008 · No Comments · blockspam

OtherInbox helps you fight bacn and spam at the same time, but ends up sending you bacn of its own. Oops.
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A Superlative Scam and Spam Site Registrar (Washington Post)

September 9th, 2008 · No Comments · blockspam

Over the past week, a number of the Internet’s largest data carriers have ceased providing online connectivity to Atrivo (a.k.a. “Intercage”), an ISP that security experts say is home to a huge number of scammers and spammers. This week, I’m…

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ASCII: An artful way around spam filters (CNET)

August 27th, 2008 · No Comments · blockspam

There’s been a recent surge in a method to evade spam filters: disguising text by using the venerable ASCII art method. But so far, spammers are bungling the attempt.
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