Archive for August, 2007

.mobi Replica Sites Replicate

August 7th, 2007 by Rebecca Herson | Category: Data & Research | Leave a comment »

In case you don’t understand the cryptic headline, I’ll explain: part of our work in detecting and blocking spam is collecting information about spam sites that spammers try to drive users to visit. This web-related data that we gather from analyzing billions of messages each day will actually form a big piece of Commtouch’s next [...]

It’s hard to benchmark anti-spam effectiveness

I’ve been following the mailing list for the Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS) Live Spam Challenge that took place last week in Mountain View, CA, since Commtouch had a couple licensing partners participating.
While I’m not involved on the technical level (lucky for me!) it didn’t take a software engineer to figure out something was [...]