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"Deep Throat Fight Club" to pummel Web filters with porn

2008-04-02 00:00:00 by Ellen Messmer in Network World on Security
 
Untangle, a company that makes a security gateway based on open source, plans what it's calling the "Deep Throat Fight Club" in a San Francisco bar to beat on Web filters of competing vendors WatchGuard, SonicWall, Fortinet, Barracuda, Websense and ScanSafe
 
Tags: web filters, san francisco bar, security gateway based, vendors watchguard, websense, source, sonicwall, scansafe, untangle
 
 
 
 
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Spam filters: Making them work

2008-09-22 04:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Spam filters can be frustrating because of false positives. Whether you're sending or receiving, here are some steps you can take to keep good e-mail out of the slush pile
 
Tags: spam filters, false positives, slush pile, steps, e-mail
 
 
 
 
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The top 10 spam characteristics (#1-5)

2006-10-03 04:13:56 by Administrator in Email security & compliance blog
 
...filters, spammers include an image in their message that cannot be filtered for words. In addition, upon opening the email message the image is downloaded from the spammers website. Since each message contains a unique ID, the spammer will know exactly which recipient has viewed the mail. This indicates which email addresses are live and can...
 
Tags: spam, spam characteristics, top spam characteristics, spam characteristic, spam mails, avoid spam messages, html comment tags, comment tags, flag spam correctly
 
 
 
 
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The top 10 spam characteristics (#6-10)

2006-09-27 06:01:03 by Administrator in Email security & compliance blog
 
...filters and filters that block messages with only images, spammers enter normal text at the bottom of the message in order to appear legitimate. Some spammers include this text in small font size 8. Message subject contains email address or recipient name : Either the complete email address or part of the email address (the part before the...
 
Tags: spam, spam characteristics, spam characteristic, todays spam mails, mails, email address, complete email address, detect spam, spam messages include
 
 
 
 
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Intro to Wireshark

2008-12-05 00:32:33 by Editor in Irongeek's Security Site
 
...filters, the filter builder, applying filters from different panes , saving filters, opening a Wiki page, Edit-> Find packet, sniffing an HTTP Basic Authentication password, Analyzers ->Expert Info, Analyzers ->Firewall ACLs, stats, editing color rules and saving the capture
 
Tags: intro, capture filter options, wireshark, options, filters, capture, simple display filters, quick intro, wireshark wireshark
 
 
 
 
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10 things you should be doing to protect your company against email risks

2007-11-02 23:30:15 by Administrator in Email security & compliance blog
 
...filters out there and most of them will do a good job at blocking spam. However, not all spam filters will allow your users to review their own spam mails, offer customization per user or allow for detailed message tracking 5: Content check emails ; Even though you have educated your users, you cannot assume that all employees will adhere to...
 
Tags: policy, email policy violations, email-policy, email policy rules, rules, email policy, risks, email risks, email
 
 
 
 
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Web Email Exploitation Kit in the Wild

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2008-04-16 13:42:23 by HASH0x8ab1c88 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...filters for your desired mail server) on which the attack would take place, complete field for a minimum of sending letters (sender, recipient, the subject, message) and choose Type of stuffing: 1) your own yavaskript code (convenient option to insert malicious code with iframe) 2) code, driving the victim to a page feykovuyu authorization....
 
Tags: xss vulnerabilities, vulnerabilities, kit, day xss vulnerabilities, xss exploitation kit, xss, xss exploitation, mail server, mail
 
 
 
 
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Detection Rates for Malware in the Wild

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2008-04-30 04:58:01 by HASH0x8af6948 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Filters Most Effective Malware-Related Snort Signatures Most Prolific BotNet Command and Control Servers and Filters Most Observed Malware-Related DNS Names Most Effective Antivirus Tools Against New Malware Binaries Most Aggressively Spreading Malware Binaries I was particularly interested in the rankings in the "Most Effective Antivirus...
 
Tags: malware, signatures based malware, malware authors, source malware, malware threat center, malware binaries, binaries, vendors, vendors infrastructure
 
 
 
 
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Automatic Email Harvesting 2.0

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2008-08-26 08:01:51 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...filters, than the number of emails sent as a benchmark for increasing the probability of bypassing anti spam filters . Taking into consideration the big picture, sniffing for email addresses streaming out of malware infected hosts, and stealing huge email databases by exploiting vulnerable online communities, seems to be the tactics of choice...
 
Tags: email, email addresses, valid email addresses, spam filters, spam, huge email databases, anti spam filters, mail spacegmail spacecom, mail
 
 
 
 
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Pseudo Email Marketing Tools Empowering Spammers

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2008-10-29 19:28:30 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge