Tag Archives: Fighting spam

My job of teaching and writing on IT means that I have to keep myself up-to-date on this front.  As such, I read up regularly on IT products and new technological developments, as well as news reports pertaining to latest …

It seems like every day represents a new threat that had previously been quietly lurking in the farthest, most remote reaches of the Internet. Deliberate breaches in data security, state sponsored hacking teams revealed, and an ever-brewing war between idealistic …

Amidst the occasional report that spam is no longer a problem, CTOs and IT managers could be misled into believing that the eradication of spam is well into its terminal phase, or at least form an opinion that it is …

In a recent article, Reports Building a False Sense of Security I stated my case that telling users that the levels of spam were falling was irresponsible. One of the main reasons was because while the levels of email spam …

There’s a great post on Ars Technica about a spam firm which got put in its place by a judge. The lawyer for spam firm e360 was presenting their case for why they deserved damages from Spamhaus after the organization blacklisted …

You must have heard about the data theft from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by now, in which a “large quantity” of data was reported to have been pillaged.  While details are hardly forthcoming at this junction – and who …

With 2011 nearly half over, the year so far has revealed a litany of high profile victims of cyberterrorism. To make matters even more disturbing, the U.S. has decided to declare war on anyone who dares infiltrate its servers. In a year where it seems you can’t watch the news without learning about a new cyber attack, some interesting perspectives have been suggested, but when hackers decide what’s right and what’s not, where will it all end?

Over the past couple of days, security companies that sell anti-malware protection have released reports that while malware infections are on the rise, the levels of spam have begun to plummet. While there is plenty of data to back up …

A recent survey concluded that while still a problem, that spam is no longer “the nuisance it once was.” An IT security vendor arrived at this conclusion by examining the number of spam messages that made it through the various …

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