January 7th, 2011 → 7:22 am @ Ed Fisher
One feature painfully lacking in many anti-spam products is user self service. This post highlights some of the things that would make up a highly useful add on.
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January 7th, 2011 → 5:48 am @ Sue Walsh
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service, which allows companies and individuals to use crowdsourcing to get small, repetitive tasks completed for little money, appears to be a giant spam machine according to Fast Company.
The magazine took a close look at the system and found that over 30% of task requesters were offering spam related tasks. These tasks [...]
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Amazon’s Mechanical Turk Service May Be Little More Than A Giant Spam Machine
January 5th, 2011 → 2:20 am @ John P Mello Jr
Despite denials from Google, a security researcher continues to assert that the Search King’s reCAPTCHA system for protecting Web sites from spammers can be successfully exploited by Internet junk mail panderers.
Researcher Jonathan Wilkins published a paper recently that included an analysis of reCAPTCHA’s security. In automated attacks he conducted against the system, he reported he [...]
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December 31st, 2010 → 7:41 am @ Sue Walsh
The Canadian government has passed a new anti-spam law designed to keep destructive and disruptive spam out of the country. The law, called the Fighting Internet and Wireless Spam Act or FISA, is similar to the United States’ CAN-SPAM law and dictates severe penalties for offenders. Here’s a look at what the bill mandates:
Sending commercial [...]
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Canada Passes New Anti-Spam Law
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December 30th, 2010 → 3:59 am @ Sue Walsh
With 2011 just around the corner, let’s take a look at the top new year’s resolutions that can help make the new year a less spammy one:
I will use a throw away address for website and software registrations. Registering software and gadgets and signing up on websites almost always gets you on a mailing list [...]
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December 28th, 2010 → 8:10 am @ Ed Fisher
The fight against spam is fought not only on mailservers and inboxes, but in blogs too. Akismet is my weapon of choice in that fight.
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December 23rd, 2010 → 7:41 am @ Ed Fisher
Anti-spam services are an excellent alternative to keeping this burdensome task inhouse. Here are seven reasons you might consider farming this out.
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7 reasons to outsource SPAM filtering
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December 22nd, 2010 → 8:30 am @ Sue Walsh
While most ISPs hate spam as much as their customers, some lurk on the dark side, either ignoring spammers who use their service or in some cases actively soliciting their business.
ISPs that choose to ignore spam activity usually do so because they feel the cost of taking care of the problem would outweigh the benefits. [...]
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December 22nd, 2010 → 7:21 am @ Paul Mah
A few weeks ago, I penned a number of evergreen spam reduction strategies to help reduce the amount of incoming spam over the mid to long-term. I then followed up with steps that administrators can take to stymie the volume of electronic junk mails destined for their organizations.
In this final installment of the series, I [...]
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December 21st, 2010 → 7:34 am @ John P Mello Jr
Spammers must have been licking their lips after hearing about the recent data breaches at Gawker, McDonalds and Walgreen. They can’t wait for the millions of email addresses–as well as account passwords, usernames and cell phone numbers–filched by hackers to make it into their hands. Fortunately, more sensitive data, such as Social Security, bank account [...]
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Email addresses filched from Gawker, McDonald’s, Walgreen
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