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The top 10 spam characteristics (#6-10)

2006-09-27 06:01:03 by Administrator in Email security & compliance blog
 
...spam messages are hard to distinguish from legitimate emails, most spam mails include tell-tale signs that can be used to filter them out. In the next few days I will be discussing the Red Earth Software list of current top 10 spam characteristics and how they can be used to detect spam. Remember that these spam characteristics must not be...
 
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The top 10 spam characteristics (#1-5)

2006-10-03 04:13:56 by Administrator in Email security & compliance blog
 
...spam, Red Earth Software has compiled a list of the most commonly found characteristics in current spam mails. Last week we saw the top spam characteristics in position #10 to #6. Today we are counting down to the #1 spam characteristic, the characteristic that Red Earth Software has found to be the most common in todays spam messages 5....
 
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Spam Filtering: Understanding SEP and CEP

2008-04-14 04:56:52 by Greg Reemler in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...spam filtering, lets go back around 10 years, detecting spam was performed with rule-based systems. In fact, here is a link to one of the first papers that documented rule-based approaches in spam filtering, E-Mail Bombs and Countermeasures: Cyber Attacks on Availability and Brand Integrity published in IEEE Network Magazine, Volume 12, Issue...
 
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Spam - still hard to stomach

2008-04-07 11:46:45 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog
 
...Spam, sent in 1971. That's a full 37 years ago which is slightly further back than the 15 years of existence that Computer Weekly is giving credit for today. Spam accounts for the majority of email addressed to my organisation's email addresses. Total tally is somewhere around 85% and 90% of incoming messages. For other organisations I know...
 
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Do people still fall for spam?

2006-10-28 19:14:06 by Administrator in Email security & compliance blog
 
...spam practices are stock spamming. You know those messages that warn you that company Xyz is hot right now and will make you a fortune? It turns out that spammers buy up stock before they send out the messages, then whilst people fall for the scam and buy the stock the spammers sell theirs at a profit. It sounds so simple (not to mention...
 
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Country Origin of Spam

2008-04-19 08:17:00 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...spam companies are always putting out reports on the state of spam, often including the countries from which the spsm came. Well here's my own report on my own spam. I recently gave up the burden of self-hosting my Exchange e-mail and moved to a hosted provider, Appriver (with whom I am very happy). One feature of their anti-spam service is...
 
Tags: spam, anti-spam companies, anti-spam service, exchange e-mail, report, e-mail, country, origin, provider
 
 
 
 
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How do you like your Spam?

2008-03-22 15:35:54 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
PC Pitstop just finished a survey on how users deal with Spam. Check out the results and see where you fit in. And I never liked Spam, and it does not taste just like chicken as many say it does clipped from techtalk.pcpitstop.com PC Pitstop SPAM Survey The initial analysis of our March 2008 SPAM Survey results
 
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Segmenting and Localizing Spam Campaigns

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2008-05-02 07:01:43 by HASH0x8af6990 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...spammer's perspective. Given that spammers have long embraced basic segmentation in their harvested email databases , enforcing localization in each of their multinational campaigns, thereby increasing the probability for a higher response, was a logical trend to come, one that we're currently witnessing on a large scale. Outsourcing the...
 
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Symantec State of Spam Report for May

2008-06-03 08:26:41 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource
 
...Spam report that comes out every month and happened to email it to me this past month. I finally got a look into the document and here are a few highlights from the May State of Spam report An increase in the number of NDR (Non Delivery Report) bounce messages sent in response to spam with forged headers Google AdWords phishing samples...
 
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Innovative spam subject lines

2007-08-19 23:16:14 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...spam ( previous post about Microsoft sweepstakes scams), while trolling through my junk email folder I noticed these today You have exactly repeated the views of the immortal Emmanuel on that subject The river of time itself consisted for the most part of bright-coloured foreign cars with water spurting up in fountains from under their tyres...
 
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