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UK Advertising Authority Introduces Anti-spam Rules
News The UK's advertising authority has taken new measures to stop junk email and text messaging, by making it mandatory in most cases for advertisers to get explicit consent before they can send commercial messages.
[March 5, 2003, 14:27]
Spam: Made In Taiwan?
News Spammers typically use networks of zombies, or compromised PCs used without their owners' knowledge, to send out their junk messages. In research conducted in May, the email security company found that 64 percent of machines sending out junk mail...
[June 12, 2006, 12:55]
K9F9 Spam Filter
Downloads K9F9: The Canine-Feline Spam Filter: K9F9 is a POP3 e-mail checker for the Windows 98 to Windows Vista operating system which uses Robin Keir's K9 intelligent statistical analysis to classify, filter and delete spam or junk e-mail.
[February 10, 2008, 2:31]
'Bluejacking' Seen As Marketing Opportunity
News The survey found that 82 percent of respondents would find unsolicited commercial messages sent to their mobile phones unacceptable, as might be expected given public concern about junk emails and junk text messages.
[December 4, 2003, 15:50]
Spammers Try Fooling Filters With Digital Signatures
News The trick was noted on several security lists, as the number of junk email messages sporting digital signatures has apparently increased. The company's own email filter software, Spam Killer, is based on SpamAssassin, but it has been changed enough...
[October 13, 2003, 9:40]
Comdex Heats Up Spam-cooking Tools
News That research helps reversal patterns not just in junk email but legitimate messages, allowing IMF to perform a more complex analysis than the spam-or-not evaluation of most filters. The program filters junk messages and lets users quickly tag a...
[November 19, 2003, 9:10]
Hotmail's Redesign Spurs Complaints
News The Web site also introduced a new junk mail filter and added two languages - Dutch and Swedish. The company said the filter enables people to choose three different options for stamping out unwanted junk mail.
[July 23, 2001, 10:19]
Outlook 2003 Offers Many New Features, But It Will Cost You
News Junk mail tracking The junk mail blocking has been overhauled to work better (though we haven't seen details of the algorithm being used). Figure A shows the new default arrangement, with the improved Outlook bar to the left, the more informative...
[May 21, 2003, 11:23]
Spamhaus Under Attack From UK Spammers
News When the government introduced the privacy and electronic communications regulations last December, it said they made it an offence for a UK company to send junk email or text messages, unless the recipient is an existing customer or has given...
[June 10, 2004, 14:15]
Spam-fighter Invades The Inbox
News When Web surfers install its Matador product, the download automatically alters their signature line in Microsoft Outlook to read: "This mailbox protected from junk email by Matador from MailFrontier Inc.
[September 20, 2002, 12:57]
MessageLabs: Watch Out For Audio And Video Spam
News The MP3 spam tactic is a natural progression for cybercriminals following runs of image, PDF and Excel junk mail earlier this year," said Mark Sunner, chief security analyst for MessageLabs. On 17 October spammers used attached MP3 music files to...
[October 30, 2007, 14:41]
Microsoft Proposes Sender ID To Jam Spam
News Eliminating domain spoofing will help legitimate senders protect their domain names and reputations, and help recipients more effectively identify and filter junk e-mail. It's used by spammers to disguise the origin of their junk mail, and...
[June 28, 2004, 16:20]
UK Law Smashes Consumer Spam
News The new law -- which is Britain's implementation of the EU Privacy and Electronics Communication Directive, and comes into force on 11 December -- makes it an offence for a UK company to send junk email or text messages, unless the recipient is an...
[September 18, 2003, 14:45]
MPs Demand Spam Protection For Businesses
News This law makes it an offence for a UK business to send junk email or text messages to individuals unless they are existing customers or have given their permission to receive such material. A group of technology-savvy MPs have warned that the...
[October 6, 2003, 17:05]
Xmas Increases Spam By 650 Percent
News During non-holiday periods 60 percent of junk emails are regurgitated around the Web and the 650 percent increase is indicative of new junk email submissions to SurfControl's RiskFilter database --- which categorises junk email and blocks it from...
[December 7, 2001, 9:21]
Uncle Spam Needs You
News Larry Kilgallen got so fed up with junk email that he finally decided to do something about it. It's civic duty," said Kilgallen, who uses a free online reporting service called SpamCop to help filter the junk and identify the culprits.
[February 5, 2002, 14:39]
Top UK Sites 'do Not Comply' With Anti-cookie Law
News The Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 -- Britain's implementation of the EU Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive, and came into force on 11 December -- makes it an offence for a UK company to send junk email or text...
[December 15, 2003, 12:35]
China Fines Its First Spammer
News It is the first time the Chinese Government has penalised a company for sending junk email since an anti-spam regulation came into force in March. Xinhua, the Chinese Government's news agency, said under the regulation that commercial emails must...
[August 23, 2006, 8:50]
Australian Government Moves On SMS Spam
News ACA chairman Tony Shaw said in a statement that individuals found "junk" short-message services intrusive and blocked storage space in their phones. Australian mobile text messaging may be spared the tsunami of spam that cripples email, with...
[June 13, 2003, 8:48]
Truste Seeks To Stem Flood Of Spam
News By 2006, consumers are expected to receive an average of 1,400 pieces of junk email to mailboxes every day, according to Internet researcher Jupiter Media Metrix. Consumers will now have guideposts to allow them to easily verify the legitimacy of...
[January 31, 2002, 14:14]
