It’s not nice to talk about the performance of other anti-spam engines, but this false positive is just too cute to ignore. One our engineers pointed out to me how ironic it was that Gmail had blocked two of his google news alerts as spam! Google being Google, I’m sure it’s just a small, temporary [...]
Jared Saia, assistant professor of computer science at the University of New Mexico School of Engineering is using mathematics to construct a defense against the spammers, hackers, worm builders, virus constructors and all the other villains of the virtual world. His work is based on a familiar puzzle in the computer science world called the [...]
Bruce Einhorn’s article in Business Week entitled No Holiday for China’s Spam Fighters ,outlines how “Chinese officials are trying to combat Internet fraud, but in a nation reliant on unprotected, pirated software, they still have a long way to go”
The following article: “Getting Clueful: Five Things You Should Know About Fighting Spam” gives a great 50,000 foot (ok, maybe even 100,000 foot) level overview about spam-fighting. It’s got some great tips for IT folks to prepare for their next meeting with management.
One thing I disagree with, however, is the implication in the article that [...]
Penn State University researches say they have developed anti-malware technology that can identify and contain worms in milliseconds rather than minutes. The name of this new technology is Proactive Worm Containment, and it focuses on analyzing packet rate, frequency of connections and diversity of connections to other networks, rather than relying on signature or pattern [...]
Some interesting trends are becoming pretty apparent in the messaging security arena. The one that I’d like to point out here is the use of robots or zombies being used to distribute email threats. This phenomena is definitely making it’s mark by changing the playing field for messaging security vendors a bit. So, in fact [...]
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology is having a competition for a new cryptographic hash function. You have until 2008 to submit your entries. The winner will be announced in 2011. Start holding your breath…..NOW!
Read Bruce Schneier’s blog entry about the new standard
I was sure I would be full of news & views after listening to keynote speeches, sitting in on sessions, and so on. But we’ve been so busy at our Marriott hospitality suites meeting with partners, business associates and the media, that until yesterday afternoon the closest I had gotten to a keynote was reading [...]
Amir was interviewed at RSA for an article in Computer World magazine. Check out was he had to say about defending against the emerging threat of server-side polymorphic viruses. RSA president Art Coviello and Eugene Kaspersky are also quoted.
Read Computer World article
The Dutch gang has been held accountable for creating a 1.5 million machine botnet, financial theft, cyber blackmail and dealings with the Russian mafia.
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