Latest antispam news.
‘Spam king’ arrested in Seattle, 05/30/07: A Seattle man was arrested Wednesday morning for illegal spamming activities.
Has the image spam flood dried up?, 05/29/07: According to new spam stats from McAfee, the amount of aggravating spam sent as embedded e-mail images plunged recently.
Stealthy antispam system behind massive book digitization effort, 05/24/07: You know those pesky but necessary CAPTCHA boxes whose squiggly letters and digits you need to retype to make use of certain parts of sites such as Yahoo, Wikipedia and PayPal?
Q&A: Why spammers are like dogs, 05/24/07: In January, Cisco announced plans to acquire IronPort Systems, maker of communications security appliances, citing synergies between Cisco’s threat mitigation, communications, policy control, and management products and IronPort’s messaging and Web protection products. This acquisition won’t be like most of the ones Cisco makes, says Scott Weiss, the founder and CEO of IronPort, because IronPort won’t be integrated into the networking giant but operated instead as a separate unit.
Podcast: Why are we still getting spam?, 05/24/07: How does e-mail security fit in the greater scheme of networking? Scott Weiss, founder and CEO of e-mail security appliance maker IronPort Systems, talks about e-mail security, why spam is on the rise, and what Cisco will and won’t do with his company following the networking giant’s January announcement to acquire it (19:19).
New antiphishing, antispam specifications unveiled, 05/23/07: Specifications for a new e-mail authentication tool to help fight against phishing and spam were published yesterday by the IETF, opening the way for software vendors and e-mail service providers to find better ways to protect e-mail recipients.
