Tag Archives: Microsoft

Last September we reported on Microsoft’s actions in taking down the Kelihos Botnet, and the civil actions pending against alleged perpetrators including Czech citizen Dominique Alexander Piatti and the dotFREE Group SRO. We then followed up with a story on …

Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype has not only brought new attention to one of the most popular messaging platforms on the Internet, it has also brought about a resurgence of spam directed at users of the service. Skype spam, or skam …

Over the years, spam filters have become extremely adept at filtering out junk email messages from your inbox. Unfortunately, they do too good of a job sometimes. Every once in a while, we may find that someone we sent an …

Call it a prime example of “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” or perhaps “anti-spam makes strange bedfellows” or even just simply competitors coming together for the greater good. Call it anything you want, it’s a good idea …

Spam is a rather annoying problem. Considering 292 billion emails sent in 2010 were spam messages, there are few people who would disagree. But putting things into perspective, when you consider that on average 5,000 people die from HIV every …

There are always statistics about spam, but more often than not they are there to wake you up to just how damaging and costly spam could be. Regardless, you can learn quite a bit from stats; and the ones below …

Having been inspired by a post I just read, I want to respond to an article over at ZDNet, where Ed Bott recently posted an article about Office 365 and the recipient limits of the service, titled Small businesses, beware …

Last month we brought you news about Operation b79, the Project MARS investigation by Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit that took down the Kelihos botnet, and led to a civil case against the alleged leader, Dominique Alexander Piatti, and his company …

By measuring the contents of a message against thousands of pre-determined rules, such as how many times a key word appears or a certain phrase occurs with another. Each time a rule is broken, a numerical score is given. The …

We have all heard the old adage, “you get what you pay for”, but in a day of open source software and social media it is common to find high quality stuff that costs nothing. Unfortunately spam protection isn’t one …