Botnets have been identified as the primary cause of the increased torrent of spam, malware and phishing scams that flooded the internet in 2022.

malware · phishing · spam · spam email · spam emails · spam filtering services

Researchers revealed earlier this year that BT and Demon Internet offer the best spam protection among all broadband service providers.

business emails · commercial emails · emails · spam · spam emails · spam filtering · spam prevention

The heightened levels of online traffic during the World Cup has afforded spammers greater opportunities.

email · emails · fraud · South Africa · South Africa 2010 · spam · world cup · world cup tickets

An older version of the blog software is being exploited by those anxious to spread spam and malware – the advice is to update immediately.

blog · blogs · emails · malware · spam · spam email · WordPress

Everyone who works in technical support knows the feeling of dread when someone asks what they do for a living, only for an immediate response of "Oh my PC has been running slowly recently, any ideas?". This book is meant for those people who don’t know their worms from their trojans, and who’ve been having a strange problem where they click on a link to one page, but end up at another.

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I found this book to be very readable and informative. Not only that, but it sparked my interest to the point that I chased down some of the people mentioned in the book to find out what they thought about their inclusion. More on that later though..

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At the risk of sounding terribly boring, I devoured this book. The book is written from the perspective of the spammer and as such, it reads very much like a How-To book for aspiring spammers. I believe this book is a must read for anyone connected to system administration or network security.

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Many system administrators rely on SpamAssassin as part of their spam filtering strategy. Its combination of static rules for recognizing spam and its ability to adaptively learn the characteristics of spam and spammers make it appealing in many environments.

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A fledgling Swansea company claims to have made a breakthrough in the fight against spam e-mail.

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