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The top 10 spam characteristics (#6-10)

2006-09-27 06:01:03 by Administrator in Email security & compliance blog
 
Even though some 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...
 
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The top 10 spam characteristics (#1-5)

2006-10-03 04:13:56 by Administrator in Email security & compliance blog
 
In a bid to stop 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...
 
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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
 
In order tohelp folksfurther understand the differences between CEP and SEP, prompted byMarcs reply in the blogosphere, More Cloudy Thoughts , here is the scoop In the early days of 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...
 
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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
 
If you believe everything you read then the first mass electronic mailing was, according to this web site devoted to the history of 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...
 
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Spam Campaign Abusing Yahoo's Services

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2008-09-17 09:25:24 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
Think 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...
 
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Most Spam Came from a Single Web Hosting Firm

2008-11-17 05:11:07 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
Really : Experts say the precipitous drop-off in spam comes from Internet providers unplugging McColo Corp., a hosting provider in Northern California that was the home base for machines responsible for coordinating the sending of roughly 75 percent of all spam each day Certainly this won't last: Bhandari said he expects the spam volume to...
 
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Spam Victims Wont Go to Rehab, No No No

2008-08-20 10:10:51 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource
 
I was reading the Symantec State of 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...
 
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Inside a Managed Spam Service

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2008-10-03 11:20:32 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
A managed 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...
 
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Do people still fall for spam?

2006-10-28 19:14:06 by Administrator in Email security & compliance blog
 
Unfortunately yes, they still do. According to a study conducted by the University of Oxford and Purdue University , the latest lucrative 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...
 
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Country Origin of Spam

2008-04-19 08:17:00 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
Anti-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...
 
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