CAN-SPAM: What went wrong?
Five years ago, the U.S. tech industry, politicians and Internet users were wringing their hands over the escalating problem of spam
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The top 10 spam characteristics (#6-10)
...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)
...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
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Spam Filtering: Understanding SEP and CEP
...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
...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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Spam Campaign Abusing Yahoo's Services
2008-09-17 09:25:24 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...spammers.Yahoo.com trusts Yahoo.com, consequently, a spam campaign that using bogus Yahoo.com email accounts, and spamming only Yahoo users with links to Yahoo's search engine using queries leading to the exact spammer's URLs, is almost 100% sure to make it through spam filters. That seems to be case with this spam campaign perfectly fitting...
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Spam Victims Wont Go to Rehab, No No No
...Spam report for August and I thought this was funny and tragic email spam targeting alcoholics and other users, and advertising rehab services. Users click the link allegedly for a rehab program, enter their personal information and instead of getting help, they get scammed
The report says
July 2008 saw the emergence of rehab spam. Subject...
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Inside a Managed Spam Service
2008-10-03 11:20:32 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...spam vendor always has to raise the stakes during its introduction period on the market. But what happens when a market follower starts using the market leader's proprietary managed spamming system , and is able to provide better spamming rates at a cheaper prices? Market forces and unethical competition at its best
So, what is this market...
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Do people still fall for spam?
...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
...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...