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Thwarting E-mail Spam Laundering

Laundering e-mail spam through open-proxies or compromised PCs is a widely-used trick to conceal real spam sources and reduce spamming cost in the underground e-mail spam industry. Spammers have plagued the Internet by exploiting a large number of spam proxies. The facility of breaking spam laundering and deterring spamming activities...

Tags: E-mail Spam, Spamming, Spam, E-mail, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications

White papers 2008-12-01

How do I... Avoid e-mail spam using Outlook tools?

As more and more spam finds your Inbox, it's harder to find legitimate mail. Regrettably, at least from the recipients' point of view, it looks like spam is here to stay. You can't keep spammers from sending you e-mail, but you can make sure you don't ever see it. Susan...

Tags: E-mail Spam, Tool, Susan Harkins, E-mail, Microsoft Outlook, Productivity, Spam, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Online Communications, Office Suites, Software, Security, Spam And Phishing, Enterprise Software

Download resources 2008-04-22

E-Mail Spam Filtering With Local SVM Classifiers

This paper describes an e-mail spam filter based on local SVM, namely on the SVM classifier trained only on a neighborhood of the message to be classified, and not on the whole training data available. Two problems are stated and solved. First, the selection of the right size of neighborhood...

Tags: University Of Trento, E-mail Spam, Corpus, Spam, E-mail, Engineering, Workforce Management, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications, Human Resources

White papers 2008-03-17

N.J. man gets two years jail for AOL spam scam

N.J. man gets two years jail for AOL spam scamNot harsh enoughShould be a longer sentence.Not enough timehe should have been sentenced to 20 years. Maybe this will stop a little bit of the spam we receive dailyRE: N.J. man gets two years jail for AOL spam scamthats great he...

Tags: Cyberthreats, e-mail spam, spam, America Online Inc., spammer, spam scam, intermediate system

Discussion threads 2007-11-05

Control all the spam in your organization with GFI's Mail Essential application

As an administrator, managing the spam that comes into your organization takes some sophisticated software and a lot of hard work. One of the more effective applications for managing an Exchange Server is Mail Essentials from GFI. Spam is four-letter word to most network or e-mail administrators....

Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Anti-spam, E-mail Spam, Spam, E-mail, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications

Download resources 2005-10-04

Additional Resources

News to know: Microsoft store; Domain names; Blackberry Storm2; VoIP; Android

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Robin Harris: A visit to Microsoft's first store Zack Whittaker: Web addresses to extend to non-English languages...

Tags: Data Center, Dana Blankenhorn, Mary Jo Foley, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Domain Name, Sam Diaz, Data Centers, Sales Strategy, Telephony, VOIP, Storage, Telecommunications, Hardware, Data Management, Sales, Networking

Blog posts 2009-11-02

Spooky Halloween - scareware or crimeware?

With all the "spooky" cybercrime trends taking place on a monthly basis, such as the death of CAPTCHA, the suspicious idleness of the Conficker botnet, the clear presence of government-tolerated and upcoming government-sponsored botnets, the inevitable migration from using malicious infrastructure to entirely relying on legitimate one, followed by the...

Tags: Search Engine Optimization, Campaign, Cybercriminal, Search, Marketing Research, Strategy, Security, Marketing, Management, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-10-29

News to know: L.A. goes Google; AMD-Galleon; Cisco-ScanSafe; Ubuntu; Amazon RDS

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Larry Dignan: WSJ: AMD's former CEO was a Galleon tipster Sam Diaz: Cisco continues its buying spree with...

Tags: Tom Foremski, Ubuntu, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Dana Blankenhorn, ScanSafe, Mary Jo Foley, Amazon.com Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows, Tablets, Internet, Databases, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Software, Notebooks & Tablets, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2009-10-28

News to know: Apple; Alex; Microhoo; Droid; FCC

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Another strong quarter for Apple; credit strong iPhone, Mac sales Jason D. O'Grady: Apple announces most profitable...

Tags: FCC, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Advertisement, Information Technology, Dana Blankenhorn, Mary Jo Foley, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, E-books, Federal Government, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Government, Web Services, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2009-10-20

FTC publishes final rules on blogger payola, endorsements

It's about time!It's only fair that if somebody refers you to a product or a service through their blog, and they have received any sort of remuneration, that they reveal this information to you.won't workhow are you going to find the ofenders?padded reviews, stuffed 'online polls' is just something we...

Tags: Blogging, FTC, advertisement, blogger, blog

Discussion threads 2009-10-05

Percentage of Internet users clicking on display ads halved in two years

maybe users have wisen upand don't believe what the ads tell.I wish the same was true for spam.What is a display ad?Maybe people are blocking them.Ads? No thanks.I've been running NoScript and AdBlock Plus (The new "ABP element hiding helper" add-on is great, as well.) for as long as...

Tags: Internet, advertisement

Discussion threads 2009-10-01

Research: Small DIY botnets prevalent in enterprise networks

Does the size of a botnet really matter? It's all a matter of perspective. Contrary to the “common wisdom� that based on their size, big botnets are theoretically capable of infiltrating a huge percentage of enterprise networks, a recently presented study entitled "My Bots Are Not Yours!...

Tags: Enterprise Network, Espionage, Cyberthreats, Spam, Robots, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Emerging Technologies, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-09-29

Perks for all workers: remote/metro, small/large firms, etc.

Leveling the playing field for workers' perks I’m on the board of a firm with operations throughout the United States. About half of their workforce and plants are in major metropolitan areas while the other half are in some pretty remote areas. Management is challenged to find...

Tags: Employee, Worker, Next Jump, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-09-25

Mozilla Thunderbird 3 beta 4 (Windows)

Get the latest Mozilla Messaging beta release of Mozilla Thunderbird. Thunderbird makes e-mailing safer, faster, and easier with such features as intelligent spam filters, a built-in RSS reader, add-ons, themes, and quick search.

Tags: Mozilla Thunderbird, Microsoft Windows, Beta, Mozilla Corp., E-mail Clients, Software

Software downloads 2009-09-22

Mozilla Thunderbird 3 beta 4 (Mac)

Get the latest Mozilla Messaging beta release of Mozilla Thunderbird. Thunderbird makes e-mailing safer, faster, and easier with such features as intelligent spam filters, a built-in RSS reader, add-ons, themes, and quick search.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Mozilla Thunderbird, Beta, Mozilla Corp., E-mail Clients, Software

Software downloads 2009-09-22

Music execs crying about royalties again; Time for a start-over

Once Upon a TimeWhen we had music stores and vinyl discs and LPs were premium items, stores had listening booths for people to check the recording out. Since that was a performance in commercial context, publishers and songwriters could have asked for performance rights back then. They didn't because it...

Tags: Performance management, Advertising & Promotion, media cartel, U.S. Congress, start-over, performance, RIAA

Discussion threads 2009-09-17

How did Craigslist manage to become the king of classifieds?

Kijiji?Never really looked at it but isn't it's goal to unseat Craigslist.RE: How did Craigslist manage to become the king of classifieds?"Who in the heck made craigslist the king of all classified ads?"Anyone would doesn't want to pay a single cent for a classified - that's who.Simple: It's free and...

Tags: Craigslist, advertisement, classifieds

Discussion threads 2009-09-17

A-Z Organizer 3.2.2.11 (Windows)

All-in-one, multi-functional information manager to plan your daily tasks and schedules, manage your business or/and personal contacts database and many other miscellaneous information more effectively. Main features: ** Customizable day planner with audio and pop-up reminder; ** Advanced schedules/tasks management tools with graphical illustrations; ** Business/personal contact information manager by...

Tags: Database, Password Protection, Microsoft Windows, JosyTal

Software downloads 2009-09-16

US cyberwarriors a reluctant crew

US cyberwarriors a reluctant crewRelated problemThere's a related problem ... once they start using [b][i]any[/i][/b] offensive cyberwarfare, anyone could do anything anywhere and blame it on the U.S.Say, for instance, individual Israelis started hacking Iranian computers or vice versa, or Taliban sympathizers started attacking Pakistani systems or Indian systems. ...

Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, reluctant crew, attack, cyberattack

Discussion threads 2009-08-02

Botnet awakes in further South Korean attack

Botnet awakes in further South Korean attackLets ban Windows and go hard core Linux.Because we know that the hackers will give up instantly if everything was Linux. They would simply give in and go out and get real jobs.NOT.Whats the difference, Windows today, Linux tomorrow, in the long run...

Tags: SECURITY, Operating systems, Hacking, attack, Linux, hacker, Microsoft Windows, computer

Discussion threads 2009-07-10