A new outbreak of ASCII art spam has graced the ‘net; most recently blogged about on Mashable, it has reappeared of late, now flogging - what else - sexual enhancement meds. For those of you unfamiliar with ASCII art, it is a historic (if you’re counting history in Internet time) way of drawing a picture [...]
I just returned from Madrid, where I represented Commtouch at 3Com’s TechConnect EMEA event, which was a great time. Together with 3Com’s Sean Newman, Product Manager, I presented the new messaging security in 3Com’s X-Family Unified Security Platforms to eager attendees comprised of their extended sales force. People are excited about the new GlobalView Mail [...]
Pretty @#$% quickly if you heard Amir Lev, Commtouch’s CTO speaking at the Ferris Webinar yesterday, together with Ferris’ Richi Jennings.
The webinar was about understanding mail reputation services, and Amir gave an overview of different types of reputation services, as well as a sneak peak into Commtouch’s GlobalView Mail Reputation Service, a new version of [...]
Several Commtouch folks just returned from Munich where they exhibited at the third (and final, for 2007) Check Point Experience event, Check Point’s premier customer event held in several locations around the world. With over 1000 people in attendance, the excitement was high surrounding Commtouch’s Anti-Spam, Zero Hour virus outbreak protection & Reputation Services. Excitement [...]
Image spam tricks spam filters, clogs networks
By Sue Hildreth, contributor
15 Mar 2007 | SearchSecurity.com
”A picture is worth a thousand words,” goes the old saying. What is true in art and journalism is proving equally apt in the more modern field of spam. As the recent surge in image-based spam shows, pictures can be a very [...]
Verizon Wireless has won a permanent injunction against Specialized Programming and Marketing LLC, prohibiting the company from sending text message spam to Verizon Wireless customers. Specialized Programming and Marketing is also required to pay $200,000 in damages.
Text message spam has been on the rise in the recent years. Wireless services providers understand that an outbreak [...]
