Archive for June 2004
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Spam poetry: transcending the junk mail paradigm
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You may have noticed the growing use of seemingly random words appearing at the end of the ever growing junk emails that fall in to your inbox on a weekly, if not daily basis.
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Barracuda Networks Protects Against Phishing Schemes
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Barracuda Networks announced plans to enhance the Barracuda Spam Firewall Family of solutions with new anti-spoofing techniques geared to increase protection against phishing schemes.
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The phish bit a lot harder in the past 12 months: According to new research by Gartner Group, phony Web pages and e-mails made to resemble legitimate company Websites accounted for much of the estimated $2.4 billion lost to security breaches in checking accounts.
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Kaspersky Labs detects Cabir, the first network worm for mobile phones. Kaspersky Labs, a leading information security software developer, has detected Cabir, the first network worm which propagates via mobile networks.
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RSS is an easy way for you to keep yourself up to date, automatically, on websites you like. Instead of you having to go to websites to see if they’ve got any new content, you can use RSS (which stands for Really Simple Syndication) to get them to tell you every time they have something new.
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Network Associates granted broad antispam patent
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Network Associates Inc. said today that it has been granted a broad U.S. patent for technology covering “various computer program products, systems and methods” for filtering unwanted e-mail messages.
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Microsoft calls for outbound filtering against spam
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In its continuing fight against unsolicited commercial e-mail, Microsoft Corp. plans to filter outgoing messages on its consumer mail services and is busy developing new “proofing” technologies, the software maker’s chief spam fighter said yesterday.
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A man who sent 850 million junk e-mails through accounts he opened with stolen identities was sentenced to up to seven years in prison on Thursday.
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The trust that PGP signatures generates can be deceptive, one researcher, a regular poster to the full-disclosure vulnerability mailing list, has discovered.
What he did not reckon was that someone would try to use his PGP signature inside a spam email to impersonate him.
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