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Get Your Finger Out, Boys!
June 30, 2008 |
We talked about botnets before when we reported on how rampant the Srizbi botnet had become. Now The Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) has released a set of guidelines developed by its members to combat the threat of botnets and spam.
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Is This the Way to Kalamazoo?
June 23, 2008 |
In the week that MySpace released their new overhauled website - i.e. they shifted some boxes around to make room for their advertisers – they were cleaning up in court again.
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What’s This Got to Do with the Price of Corn?
June 16, 2008 |
The global nature of phishing scams becomes apparent when you read about how British scammers turned their attention to the fairly remote island of New Zealand in the Southern Ocean nearly 20,000km away.
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Spam is Dead! Long Live Spam!
June 9, 2008 |
MessageLabs disappointed the eternally hopeful amongst us by announcing that spam levels are back at highs not seen in over a year. Spam mail accounted for 76.8% of all email in May 2008.
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Linked In but Clued Out
June 2, 2008 |
If you thought it's only the uninitiated who falls for phishing scams, think again. LinkedIn, a networking site for intellectuals who want to do more mature stuff than listen to 50 Cent and upload photos of themselves binge-drinking, is now a target for phishers.
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Capital Letters and Exclamation! Marks
May 26, 2008 |
The tiresome chase of Yahoo! by Microsoft is almost as tiresome as the fact that my word processor automatically capitalises the letter that immediately follows “Yahoo!”. Despite selling zillions of Xbox consoles and, um, Zune music players, Microsoft still lags way behind in the online advertising market.
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Open-relay, Brought to You by Google
May 19, 2008 |
Pressure on at Google as the brilliantly-acronymed Information Security Research Team (InSeRT) discovered a flaw in Google's previously highly-regarded spam and phishing filter.
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The State of Spam
May 12, 2008 |
How long before the US adopts its 51 st State: Spam, capital city, Phishville. A State which is over run by zombies, employing many address harvesters in local industry and administered by Mayor F Raud.
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The Phisher Kings
May 8, 2008 |
I mentioned last week how text message spam was becoming more than a nuisance for mobile phone users. Well, a new survey shows that two-thirds of UK users have been the victims of mobile spam and phishing attacks.
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Google Explain this New-fangled Phishing Threat
April 30, 2008 |
No one is impacted by phishing more so than the financial sector. Apacs, the UK payment association, have revealed that reported attacks on UK consumers have more than doubled in the first quarter of the year at more than 10,000.
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Last Week in the News (4/13 ~ 4/19)
April 21, 2008 |
The first article of note comes from MediaPost's Email Insider. This article discusses the various techniques that senders use to bring across their branding in the subject line. This is particularly timely as Brandmail Solutions is going to be at the Email Insider Summit down in Florida next month. We hope to see some of y'all there.
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Last Week in the News (4/6 ~ 4/12)
April 14, 2008 |
Our first article brings us the subject of this week’s blog: War. The concept is one that comes up pretty often in the rhetoric of email security companies. “Spam ‘cold war’ set to continue.”
It’s an interesting concept. Are we actually fighting a war?
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Last Week in the News (3/23 ~ 3/29)
March 31, 2008 |
TechNewsWorld brings us our first article, which I'm choosing because it has an awesome headline:
“Teach a Man to Phish and He’ll Feed on Fools for a Lifetime”
I bet that headline had it spelled as “Phools” before it went to editing.
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Last Week in the News (3/16 ~ 3/22)
March 24, 2008 |
Welcome to the first Brandmail Solutions "Last Week in the News" blog post. Each Monday, we'll discuss a few notable articles from the past week. These articles will touch on topics relevant to the email sender and ISP communities. Some topics of note will be phishing and spamming, email authentication, branding, online advertising, email statistics, and others.
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