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MX Logic Reports 13 Percent of Spam Messages Use Email Authentication Schemes
DENVER -- Zombie PCs Account for 51 Percent of Spam in January; CAN-SPAM Compliance Drops
Tags: e-mail, spam message
Research articles 2005-02-10
Two-thirds of spam messages contain false information, says FTC
In a review of approximately 1,000 pieces of unsolicited commercial e-mail UCE commonly known as spam, the Federal Trade Commission's FTC Division of Marketing Practices determined that approximately two-thirds of the messages contained false information. In a report titled "False Claims in Spam," the FTC revealed its findings, noting that...
Tags: FTC, spam message
Research articles 2003-05-13
AOL Accuses Three Florida Residents of Spending Millions of Spam Messages.
By Tim Lemke, The Washington Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News By Tim Lemke, The Washington Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Tags: America Online Inc., spam message
Research articles 2004-02-19
SkillSoft Selects Tumbleweed Email Firewall to Secure Email and Fight Spam; Tumbleweed's Dynamic Anti-spam Service Blocks 16,000 Spam Messages Daily for E-learning Enterprise
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- TumbleweedR Communications Corp. (Nasdaq:TMWD), a leading provider of mission-critical Internet communications software for enterprises, financial services organizations and government, announced today that SkillSoft PLC (Nasdaq: SKIL), a leading provider of enterprise e-learning, has chosen Tumbleweed Email Firewall with Dynamic Anti-spam Service DAS to protect 1,500 users...
Tags: anti-spam, e-learning, e-mail, firewall, SkillSoft, spam message
Research articles 2005-03-01
Verizon, Acacia National Mortgage reach settlement on spam messages.
IRVINE, Calif.--Verizon Wireless reached a settlement with Acacia National Mortgage Co. stopping the lender from sending repeated, unsolicited commercial text messages to Verizon Wireless customers signed up for the carrier's text messaging service IRVINE, Calif.--Verizon Wireless reached a settlement with Acacia National Mortgage...
Tags: settlement, spam message, Verizon Communications Inc., Verizon Wireless
Research articles 2001-10-22
MemorialCare Selects Tumbleweed MailGate Email Firewall to Combat Spam, Virus, Phishing and Other Email Attacks; Solution Blocking More Than 300,000 Spam Messages per Week and Supporting Over 5,000 Email Users
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- TumbleweedR Communications Corp. (NASDAQ:TMWD), a leading provider of e-mail security, file transfer security, and identity validation software and appliances, announced today that MemorialCare, one of Los Angeles and Orange County's leading health care systems, has chosen Tumbleweed MailGateR Email Firewall to block spam, viruses, phishing attacks...
Tags: e-mail, email user, firewall, phishing, spam message, virus
Research articles 2006-03-15

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Marshall Identifies New Spam Trick That Claims, "We Caught You Naked"
A new outbreak of spam featuring personalized subject lines claiming that you have been caught on video naked is hitting inboxes worldwide, Marshal's TRACE Team announced today. The newest malicious spam campaign is being sent from the Srizbi botnet and includes a clickable link in the email....
Tags: Trace Services Inc.
Research articles 2008-04-21
Spam, Spam, Spam and More Spam | BTalk Australia
(Episode 265; 13min 08) The latest State of Spam report from Symantec shows that spam continues to account for about 90% of all email traffic. Robert Pregnall from Symantec says its important that you aren't part of the low-hanging fruit. These days a spam message could even...
Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, E-mail, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications, Phil Dobbie
Blog posts 2009-06-15
Spammers Continue Innovation: IronPort Study Shows Image-Based Spam, Hit & Run, and Increased Volumes Latest Threat to Your Inbox
IronPort® Systems Inc., the leader in gateway security, today announced new industry research, which shows an increased prevalence of "image-based spam" -- an advanced technique that spammers have adopted to evade detection. Image-based spam bypasses both traditional content and signature scanning and contains little or no text to analyze,...
Tags: image, Ironport Systems Inc., spam
Research articles 2006-06-28
Spam busters add education to arsenal.
Sep 28, 2003 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) The Australian Internet Industry Association IIA has joined forces with international counterparts to stamp out the practice of "spamming". The sending of unauthorised electronic messages has been legislated against in Australia and the...
Tags: anti-spam, Australian Internet Industry Association, education, FTC, SECURITY, Spam
Research articles 2003-09-28
Spam : Should it be Taken off the E-mail Menu?
Unsolicited bulk commercial e-mail, the politically correct term for spam, is nothing new to e-mail inboxes, and its use has no shortage of critics. The pervasive use of spam makes it a popular topic of debate at both the business and consumer levels. Article explains about the anti-spam legislation that...
Tags: Anti-spam, McGuireWoods, E-mail, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing
White papers 2002-03-01
Spammers Newest Tactic: YouTube Video Spam
Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have recorded a mass mailing of spam emails containing a link to a video advertisement on YouTube . Although in the past, spammers have have attempted to lure people into clicking links by claiming the link would display a YouTube video, this...
Tags: Video, YouTube Inc.
News items 2009-10-09
'Godfather of Spam' Ralsky Gets 51 Months in Prison
Four men, including a 64-year-old Michigan resident known as the "Godfather of Spam," were sentenced to several years in prison Tuesday for conspiring to commit wire fraud, mail fraud, and violate federal Can-Spam legislation. "Godfather" Alan Ralsky will serve 51 months in prison, while Scott Bradley ? Ralsky's son-in-law ?...
Tags: men, Stock, U.S. Department of Justice, e-mail, Fraud, Prison
News items 2009-11-25
FTC seeks comments on Spam regulations.(Headlines)(United States. Federal Trade Commission)(Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003)(Brief Article)
How do you determine an e-mail message's "primary purpose"? That's what the Federal Trade Commission seeks to nail down in its call for public comments on the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. This FTC request comes on the heels of an earlier request f How do you...
Tags: FTC, marketing
Research articles 2004-04-01
AppRiver Joins Forces with Email Security Technology Visionary Peter McNeil; Companies to Co-Own Message Sniffer™ Spam Detection Engine
GULF BREEZE, Fla. -- AppRiver LLC, a leading provider of business email security solutions, today announced an agreement with Sterling, Va.-based MicroNeil Research Corporation, for joint ownership of MicroNeil's powerful Message SnifferTM spam detection engine. The partnership will enable AppRiver and MicroNeil together to devote additional resources to Message Sniffer...
Tags: e-mail, e-mail security
Research articles 2005-12-01
FrontBridge Sees Holiday Spam Volumes Surpass 90%
FrontBridge Technologies Inc., the leader in enterprise message management and email security, today announced spam volumes topped 93 percent in November, a record high since FrontBridge started recording business-email spam volumes four years ago. FrontBridge's spam and virus analytics team predicts a grim outlook through the remainder of the holiday...
Research articles 2004-12-13
Intrado to Showcase SMS Spam Filtering, Mobility Solutions at 3GSM World Congress; Solutions Provide Wireless Carriers with Capability to Reduce Spam, Streamline Operations
LONGMONT, Colo. -- Intrado Inc. (Nasdaq:TRDO), a global provider of integrated data and telecommunications solutions, today announced it will demonstrate solutions that reduce mobile spam and improve operational efficiencies at 3GSM World Congress, February 13-16, in Barcelona, Spain. The IntradoR SMS Spam Filtering solution is designed to help wireless operators...
Tags: 3GSM, mobile, mobility, spam, spam filtering, Streamline, U.S. Congress, wireless
Research articles 2006-02-09
ScamSlam: An Architecture for Learning the Criminal Relations Behind Scam Spam
This white paper introduces Scam Slam, a software system designed to learn the underlying number criminal cells perpetrating a particular type of scam, as well as to identify which scam spam messages were written by which cell. The system consists of two main components; a filtering mechanism based on a...
Tags: Message, Carnegie-Mellon University, Cell
White papers 2004-05-01
For 30 years now, you've been getting spam
WASHINGTON AFP — This week, the world will mark an anniversary that has changed the face -- and other anatomical regions -- of email inboxes everywhere: the first known spam email was sent 30 years ago on Saturday. But the message sent on May 3, 1978 by a marketer...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, computer, E-mail, INTERNET, PRODUCTIVITY, SECURITY, Spam
Research articles 2008-05-01
'Report as Spam' Feature in Twitter
Wondering if that spike in Twitter followers is actually the work of spammers? Twitter on Tuesday unveiled a new tool that makes it easier to report suspected users."Click the 'Report as spam' button under the Actions section of a profile's sidebar and our Trust and Safety team will check it...
Tags: Twitter Inc.
News items 2009-10-15
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