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First Anti-Spam Day launched
News Today is the first Global Anti-Spam Day -- dubbed 'Dump the Junk Day' -- which is being run by Yahoo in the hope of further raising the profile of the worldwide spam problem. Estimates suggest spam -- or unsolicited bulk email -- costs businesses...
[May 22, 2003, 8:42]
Engate Delivers Enterprise-Class Email Protection and Preemptively Stops Progressive Botnet Attacks
White Papers Seeking an effective anti-spam solution, the company evaluated several email security products in the market. Atreus was using Microsoft to filter its spam messages. Unfortunately, over the past three years, unsolicited emails such as spam, phish...
[January 21, 2009, 0:00]
Cole Harford Tackles E-mail Security Threats With IBM Express Managed Security Services for E-mail Security
White Papers ProActive Solutions recommended IBM Express Managed Security Services for e-mail security, an outsourced e-mail security solution with anti-virus and anti-spam functionality offered by IBM Global Services - Integrated Technology Services.
[November 17, 2006, 0:00]
Microsoft takes spam fight to source
News Lawsuits against spammers in China and Korea -- two major global spam sources -- are expected to be trickier to execute because of the relatively less developed anti-spam legal framework in these countries.
[June 20, 2003, 15:37]
Asia: Public enemy number one for spam
News Both McAfee and Sophos agreed that spam was unlikely to disappear, and called for Internet Service Providers (ISPs), businesses and home users to run anti-spam software. Asia accounts for 42.8 percent of the spam received by Sophos' global spam...
[April 20, 2006, 17:55]
Plug pulled on anti-spam project
News A popular anti-spam service is shutting itself down, saying it is no longer effective at protecting organisations from junk email. The general consensus within the team is that open relay RBLs [relay blocking lists] are no longer the most effective...
[December 22, 2006, 10:14]
MessageLabs: Filtering your email sewage
News Unlike the majority of spam, these emails have no grammatical or syntactical errors, and the code is spot on, says Maksym Schipka, anti-virus technical architect. We have eight people in the UK office on the full-time team, plus the Network...
[November 30, 2005, 12:45]
Government: Our spam laws won't be enough
News The government has admitted that its forthcoming anti-spam law will not solve the problem of unsolicited bulk email on its own. Timms told the Spam Summit at the House of Commons on Tuesday that a global approach was needed to combat the growing...
[July 1, 2003, 15:34]
Australian law claims spam success
News The international anti-spam watchdog Spamhaus has confirmed the closure of the spammers. Failure to comply with the Spam Act can result in a hefty fine reaching thousands of dollars, or a prosecution penalty of up to AU$1.1 million per day for...
[July 22, 2004, 11:15]
Take on the spammers with Aussie rules
Leader Linford played an important role in helping the Australian government to write its own anti-spam law. In contrast, after Britain's feeble anti-spam law was introduced Linford actually saw spammers flooding into the UK.
[October 26, 2004, 12:00]
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[January 24, 2003, 6:00]
Australia to ban spam
News However, Alston's spokesperson hastened to add that the government would be working with its international counterparts as part of a global anti-spam effort. There is currently a bill being debated in a US House of Representatives subcommittee on...
[July 23, 2003, 10:03]
Sophos: Protecting the world from The Pentagon
News The UK antivirus and anti-spam analysts do shift work, and can outsource queries to other parts of the company and to external consultants. Anti-spam software automatically filters 95 percent of the spam Sophos receives.
[November 28, 2005, 15:05]
Storm worm stirs up email virus chaos
News Ultimately, computers infected with this virus become unknowing "zombies" in a botnet that are used to send out spam and further the attacks. According to warning notices from Postini as well as VeriSign, which has also been following the threat...
[April 16, 2007, 11:24]
Valentine's Day brings spam and scams, warns FBI
Blog Security vendor Kaspersky has a slightly different take on a similar story -- the Russian anti-malware company has reported a spike of spam this morning (February 14), and mass mailings since Monday: Kaspersky Lab has detected a large-scale global...
[February 14, 2008, 10:50]
United Nations calls for ISPs to police spammers
News Currently most anti-spam laws are targeted at hunting down and prosecuting spammers, according to ITU. Hale claimed that AOL does a lot to combat spam already, blocking between 1.5 billion and 2 billion emails a day.
[March 9, 2006, 16:55]
Hotmail clamps down on spam
News The software giant has signed a deal with anti-spam firm Brightmail that will see the Brightmail Solution Suite implemented at the incoming SMTP gateway of Hotmail users. Help is at hand for the millions of Hotmail users plagued by spam after...
[September 20, 2002, 15:56]
Lycos launches anti-spam zombie army
Talkback I dispise spam, it costs the world economy billions, disrupts global communications, delivers pornography to minors, and spreads viruses. This screen saver is a brilliant attempt to address this by visiting the sites the spam emails request them to...
[December 2, 2004, 1:07]
Anti Spam Engine: Time-Tested Scanning
White Papers The year's peak was on March 27, with 185 billion spam messages sent that day. The proliferation of spam will increase. Spam rose 280% from July 2007 to July 2008. It should be noted that spam laws are often ineffectual, for they are hard to...
[June 20, 2009, 1:21]
Microsoft launches anti-spam court action in UK
News Spam is a growing problem and it's a global problem," Brad Smith, senior vice president and general counsel for Microsoft, said at a news conference to announce the suits. It also filed two suits in the United Kingdom, where the defendants are...
[June 18, 2003, 8:54]
