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Clyton (exe): Clyton is an email client with advanced security and spam filtering features. The spam filter is highly configurable and supports DNS blacklist checking DNSBL. Expect 85% of spam to be eliminated with the default configuration. Email that is suspicious but not obviously spam can be quarantined for 24 hours and...; Tags: Spam Filtering, Spam Filter, Gammadyne, Clyton, E-mail, Spam, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing; Software downloads 2007-11-21
Non Intrusive Learning Patterns (NILP): The Intelligent Spam Filtering Technology of the Future: Spam menace is one of the biggest issues that cripple email traffic on the Internet today. The immediate impact of spam can be measured by way of huge bandwidth loss, usage of network and computer resources and the wastage of productive time, both at system and human levels. Non Intrusive...; Tags: Spam Filtering, MicroWorld Technologies, Cyberthreats, Spam, E-mail, Phishing, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications; White papers 2007-07-30
Promising antispam technique gets nod: Promising antispam technique gets nodI allow two customers to "relay"through my mail server. Even though the sender's email address domain is differrent than the mail server that is sending it, my mail server's domain and IP show up in the header. This can easily be checked to see...; Tags: Cyberthreats, E-mail servers, Viruses and worms, Nothing, spam filtering, technique, anti-spam, spam, e-mail, DomainKeys, e-mail server, body part, server, phishing, POPFile; Discussion threads 2007-05-23
Learn how spam filtering works: Explore tokenization, the building blocks of spam: Learn how spam filtering works and how language classification and machine learning combine to produce remarkably accurate spam filters in Ending Spam: Bayesian Content Filtering and the Art of Statistical Language Classification. The book describes, in depth, how statistical filtering is being used by next-generation spam filters to...; Tags: Spam Filtering, Bayesian, Spam Filter, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing; Book chapters 2007-05-17
Spam Filtering: Building a More Accurate Filter: The growth of spam has become such a problem that the US Congress has passed laws prohibiting unsolicited email and yet spam continues to proliferate. This white paper discusses the many problems spam creates for organizations and why controlling spam is an important issue for businesses of all sizes. The...; Tags: Spam Filtering, White Paper, St. Bernard Software, E-mail, Spam, Security, Viruses And Worms, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing; White papers 2006-11-01

Spam Monitor: Spam Monitor is easy to install and manage but don't be fooled by its perceived simplicity, behind the scenes is a world-class spam filtering technology continuously protecting your Inbox. If you have tried other spam filters and found them too complex or ineffective you should try Spam Monitor. Spam Monitor...; Tags: Monitor, Spam Filtering, PC Tools, Spam Filter, Plug-in, Spam Monitor, Spam, Microsoft Outlook, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software; Software downloads 2006-10-17
ISP Spam filtering: Spam costs businesses both directly and indirectly. In order both to provide a service to customers - and reduce their own business costs - what are the options for ISPs to offer an effective spam filtering solution?; Tags: Spam Filtering, BlackSpider Technologies, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Internet, Spam And Phishing; White papers 2006-03-29
How URL Spam Filtering Beats Bayesian/Heuristics Hands Down: The evolution and sophistication of spam and spammers has sparked much debate as to which spam filtering methods are the most accurate. This whitepaper addresses issues and problems associated with Bayesian and Heuristic filtering solutions and argues that URL ("click me" link) filtering is the most accurate and predictable method...; Tags: Spam Filtering, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing; White papers 2005-09-28
Microsoft pushes spam-filtering technology: Microsoft pushes spam-filtering technologySpam filter wars?Could this be the start of a major war between companies for spam filtering?Similar to the browser wars of the 1990's.Mandating SPF, not Sender IDHotmail is mandating the use of [url=http://spf.pobox.com/]the Sender Policy Framework[/url] not SenderID.SenderID adds proprietary MS Purported Responsible Address PRA technology to...; Tags: Spam, E-mail, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, E-mail providers, SECURITY, OPEN SOURCE, SPF, Microsoft Corp., SenderID, spam filtering; Discussion threads 2005-06-22

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News to know: 'Spam king' dead; Microsoft's cloud; Dell;: Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide CBS Denver Video: 'Spam King' Inmate Dies Along With Wife, Daughter Mary Jo Foley: Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC,...; Tags: Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide: Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicideGood riddance to bad rubbish.Too bad he took others with him.Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicideThis is very sad. There was no reason for him to take other people's lives.Much sadder then you think. Much SadderAs an avid computer enthusiast, owning...; Tags: INTERNET, apparent murder-suicide, Escapee, murder-suicide, Spam King; Discussion threads 2008-07-24
Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide: Convicted spammer Eddie Davidson, who escaped from federal prison over the weekend, killed his wife and 3-year-old daughter before killing himself in what is being described as a murder-suicide. Colorado's 9News.com said the tragic end of the man known as the "Spam King" was confirmed by the...; Tags: Prison, Sheriff, Internal Revenue Service, Attorney, Healthcare, Ryan Naraine; Blog posts 2008-07-24
News to know: DNS flaw; Amazon; Microsoft shakeup; Facebook: Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Researchers borrow from Google PageRank for network defense service Attack code published for DNS flaw Nate McFeters: |)ruid and HD Moore release part 2 of DNS exploit 'Spam King' escapes from federal prison iPhone vulnerable to phishing,...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Facebook, DNS, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, Flaw, Game Players, Domain Names, Networking, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Internet, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-24
Live Webcast: Mid-Year Report: Malware, Spam and Web Threats in 2008: What's NOT happening in 2008? The web continues to be a vector for cyber threats. Incidents of spear-phishing continue to dupe users, and botnets are increasing in popularity amongst growing economies across the globe. Complex polymorphic viruses as opposed to the more mundane Trojan horses are getting...; Tags: Web, Webcast, Sophos Plc., Malware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Channel Management, Security, Marketing; Webcasts 2008-07-24
'Spam King' escapes from federal prison: 'Spam King' escapes from federal prisonNow he'll be doing a longer stintWhen they find him. Double-dumbass on him.RE: 'Spam King' escapes from federal prisonWhat the f**k kind of prison are the Feds running these days?? He just drove away?? I hope he spams the shit out of the warden...; Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam King, federal prison; Discussion threads 2008-07-23
'Spam King' escapes from federal prison: [ UPDATE: Davidson was found dead, involved in an apparent murder-suicide that involved his wife and 3-year-old daughter. ] Edward "Eddie" Davidson, a notorious e-mail spammer who was sentenced to jail time in April, has escaped from a federal prison camp in Florence, Colorado. Davidson...; Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Restitution, Davidson, Federal Prison Camp, E-mail, Security, Online Communications, Ryan Naraine; Blog posts 2008-07-23
Inside the mind - and config - of Terry Childs: Inside the mind - and config - of Terry ChildsGuilty of Incompetency in Office Politics, Being a JerkThe word is that Childs was the sole keeper of the passwords for months if not years, and management was aware of the situation during this period.The new director of security took a...; Tags: Workforce management, IT Field, Terry Childs; Discussion threads 2008-07-23
COPA is unconstitutional: The Third Circuit has upheld a lower court decision that the Child Online Protection Act is unconstitutional, AP reports. In its ruling Tuesday, the federal appeals court concluded that the Child Online Protection Act is unconstitutionally overly broad and vague. The court also ruled that...; Tags: Child Online Protection Act, Parental Control, Third Circuit, Regulations, Government, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-07-23
News to know: Yahoo; VMware; Apple; DNS vulnerability: Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Vulnerability disclosure gone awry: Understanding the DNS debacle RIM ships fix for BlackBerry code execution bug Dancho Danchev: Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackers 75% of online banking sites found vulnerable to security design...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, DNS, Yahoo! Inc., Vulnerability, Dana Blankenhorn, Health Care, Apple Inc., VMware Inc., App Store, Banking, Vertical Industries, Domain Names, Benefits, Healthcare, Security, Financial Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Human Resources; Blog posts 2008-07-23
Twitter anti-spam efforts go overboard: Twitter anti-spam efforts go overboardLarge services such as this can not...are too big to manage. Managing this type of technology with technology will time after time result in mismanagement. Just like Gmail and other that are spamming the Internet.Networks require real human intervention to manage properly. Anything less is...; Tags: Spam, Twitter, anti-spam, anti-spam effort; Discussion threads 2008-07-22