Industry Alliance Touts Authentication in Fighting Spam

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Anti-Spam Technical Alliance Publishes
Industry Recommendations to Help Stop
Spam

Anti-Spam Technical Alliance Publishes
Industry Recommendations to Help Stop
Spam 06/22/2004 09:17 AM
The Anti-Spam Technical Alliance (ASTA), whose participants include Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., EarthLink and America Online Inc., today unveiled the result of more than a year of close collaboration by presenting a host of detailed best practices and technical recommendations for the entire industry in an effort to fight the scourge of spam.

Aspace announces alliance to bolster
Crypto authentication

Aspace announces alliance to bolster
Crypto authentication 09/23/2004 08:43 AM
Computer Business Review Sep 23 2004 12:27PM GMT

Symantec Brightmail Anti-Spam v6.0
delivers next-generation spam-fighting
power, control to enterprises

Symantec Brightmail Anti-Spam v6.0
delivers next-generation spam-fighting
power, control to enterprises 07/01/2004 10:20 PM
Sunday Times South Africa Jul 2 2004 2:42AM GMT

Gorbachev Touts Russian IT Industry

Gorbachev Touts Russian IT Industry 04/12/2005 11:20 PM
The Russian economy is rebounding, following India's lead in outsourcing and taking a global perspective, according to the former Soviet Union leader.

Kerry Touts His Plans For High-Tech
Industry

Kerry Touts His Plans For High-Tech
Industry 06/25/2004 05:29 PM
BizReport.com Jun 25 2004 9:07PM GMT

Spam Battle Moving to Authentication

Spam Battle Moving to Authentication 05/28/2004 06:34 PM
New tools from Microsoft, Yahoo and others look to block unwanted e-mails at the gateway.

Sender authentication failing to block
spam

Sender authentication failing to block
spam 09/01/2004 06:16 AM
Computer Weekly Sep 1 2004 10:39AM GMT

FTC Shoots Down Spam Registry, Boosts
Authentication Scheme

FTC Shoots Down Spam Registry, Boosts
Authentication Scheme 06/15/2004 07:29 PM
The FTC on Tuesday told Congress that a proposed Do Not E-mail anti-spam registry was unworkable until a universal e-mail authentication standard was adopted.

InfraGard Membership Alliance – Metro
New York 2005 Biometric Technology
Briefing – January 18, 2005 - Biometrics
Identification and Authentication

InfraGard Membership Alliance – Metro
New York 2005 Biometric Technology
Briefing – January 18, 2005 - Biometrics
Identification and Authentication 01/06/2005 04:42 AM
The InfraGard Biometric Security Summit will be held at Ernst & Young's Times Square Corporate Headquarters in New York, NY and is presented by InfraGard’s Membership Alliance – Metro New York. Invitations to attend are extended to Government and Corporate Security Professionals and reservations for attendance can be made by visiting the InfraGard Metro New York website at www.nym-infragard.us. [PRWEB Jan 6, 2005]

Mobile industry must form alliance to
beat WAP scam

Mobile industry must form alliance to
beat WAP scam 06/02/2004 03:03 PM
newmediazero Jun 2 2004 6:33PM GMT

Planetwide Games Joins Forces with First
Data to Launch Authentication Product
for the Video Game Industry

Planetwide Games Joins Forces with First
Data to Launch Authentication Product
for the Video Game Industry 06/05/2005 10:52 PM
The "GameFREQ™" Security Card uses DataSIGN™ Solutions to protect video game players and enhance transactions. [PRWEB May 19, 2005]

New Google Spam Fighting

New Google Spam Fighting 03/11/2003 01:22 AM
WebmasterWorld: Good news about expired domains. ``We've also put more of a focus on algorithmic improvements for spam issues. One resulting improvement with this index is better handling of expired domains--the authority for a domain will be reset when a domain expires, even though dangling links to the expired domain are still out on the web. We'll be rolling this change in over the next few months starting with this index. [...] I think you'll see more emphasis at Google on scalable algorithms rather than responding to individual spam reports.'' Basically, when you buy a domain that previously expired, you won't get the PageRank the old domain's owner accrued. Neat idea....

Fighting Spam with Digital IDs

Fighting Spam with Digital IDs 12/05/2002 07:49 PM
Jon Udell on the pitfalls of permission-based spam filters: If we rule out spontaneous association then we will not have...

Fighting comment spam

Fighting comment spam 02/01/2005 08:40 PM
Jay Allen has written a very nice document on how to fight comment spam Jay Allen should know a thing or two about comment spam. Before joing Six Apart he wrote the now famous MT-Blacklist plugin for Movable Type. If...

Fighting spam on Linux

Fighting spam on Linux 07/15/2004 03:08 AM

Fighting spam: Opting out is in

Fighting spam: Opting out is in 06/23/2004 01:13 AM
Straits Times Jun 23 2004 5:26AM GMT

Fighting spam with insults?

Fighting spam with insults? 06/01/2004 03:50 AM
One of my many domains have been used by spammers for a while. Unfortunately its not much I can do about it, without spending a...

DoCoMo Touts Anti-Spam Tool

DoCoMo Touts Anti-Spam Tool 11/05/2003 05:55 PM
Unstrung.com Nov 5 2003 3:48PM ET

Step one in comment spam fighting

Step one in comment spam fighting 11/14/2003 10:54 PM
One of the drawbacks to rolling your own weblog software is that any time you want to add a feature you have to do it yourself.

For instance, I’ve wished a few times that I could use Jay Allen’s MT-Blacklist plugin. It would make it easier to fight comment spam.

(I have very good reasons for sticking with my own weblog software. I’m not going to change; please don’t suggest it.)

However, my software has a feature that would be cool to see in other weblog software, so I wanted to mention it: there’s an RSS feed that shows the last n comments, no matter which post they’re in reply to.

This means that no comment spam appears, even in very old posts, that I don’t see. I still have to go to the trouble of deleting it—but it’s much better than not knowing about it.

It may be that some other weblog software packages already have this feature. If so—cool. If yours doesn’t have this feature, you might want to consider it. I totally rely on it myself (and not just for fighting comment spam).

You might say—well, my weblog software does email notifications of comments, so an RSS feed of recent comments isn’t needed.

And I’d reply—well, my software has email notifications too. I found that I hardly ever looked at them. In amongst all the other email noise, comments notifications don’t work that well.

But an RSS feed for recent comments works wonderfully.

Guide for Fighting Comment Spam

Guide for Fighting Comment Spam 01/04/2005 08:15 PM
Call it a late holiday gift or a great way to start the new year. In either case, we are...

Fighting Spam with DNA Sequencing
Algorithms

Fighting Spam with DNA Sequencing
Algorithms 08/22/2004 08:18 AM

Think Spam Is Tough? Try Fighting Spim

Think Spam Is Tough? Try Fighting Spim 06/08/2004 06:58 PM
Internet.com Jun 8 2004 9:51PM GMT

Microsoft touts 'Sender ID' to fight
spam, scams

Microsoft touts 'Sender ID' to fight
spam, scams 08/12/2004 01:23 PM
Proposed tech standard would verify senders' IP addresses to cut malicious phishing and annoying Viagra pitches.

Latest ideas for fighting spam not the
greatest

Latest ideas for fighting spam not the
greatest 03/06/2004 01:55 AM
SiliconValley.com Feb 25 2004 11:47AM GMT

Spam fighting hurts legitimate business?

Spam fighting hurts legitimate business? 04/09/2004 04:10 PM

Fractured Realities: Fighting Against
Comment Spam

Fractured Realities: Fighting Against
Comment Spam 02/01/2005 09:14 PM
In a new posting over on Fractured Realities (Davey Shafik's weblog) today, he talks more about the eternal struggle these days with that menace of weblogs everywhere - comment spam.

Do We Need A Hybrid Approach To Fighting
Spam And Viruses?

Do We Need A Hybrid Approach To Fighting
Spam And Viruses? 05/07/2004 12:11 PM
There's an ongoing battle about how to best fight threats like spam and viruses (and spyware and trojans and worms, etc...). Some think that it should be at the network level, where an ISP or a company can set up filters, while others believe it needs to be at the desktop. In an interview with the CTO for MessageLabs (makers of "managed email security products" - so you know where his bias is) he makes the compelling case for moving the protection up to the network level (of course, he means using MessageLabs' solution). His argument is that you can keep filters much more up-to-date at the network level, even to the point of updating them multiple times per day. It also removes the hassle of end-users getting anywhere near some of these malicious files - some of which use social engineering tricks to get users to do things they shouldn't. Of course, he's only telling half the story. Blocking at the network level is increasingly becoming a necessity, but it assumes that users always access the internet in the same way. These days, with laptops and things like WiFi, people access the internet from many different places, and you don't always know who's managing the network protection. You also don't know who might be connecting to your local network - and what sort of nasty stuff they've already been exposed to. It seems that a hybrid approach is going to become increasingly important. Some have said the trend needs to move from "scan and block" to "comply and connect" - which may represent the hybrid approach that things are heading towards. You allow most of the filtering to still occur on the network, but you don't allow an individual machine to connect to a network unless it's been shown to "comply" with whatever security policies have been established. While more corporate users are moving in this direction, it may be time for residential broadband service providers to look at providing similar solutions themselves. The issue, as always, is how much control people are willing to give their service providers. No one wants to be denied a connection because suddenly their ISP says they haven't complied with some weird security aspect that the user knows they have complied with. However, as these malicious attacks get worse, it's likely that we're going to move closer to a world where getting on the network is going to mean proving you're clean, while network level machines will be required to block out the nastiest attacks.

Messenger Spam Senders Fighting Back
Against FTC

Messenger Spam Senders Fighting Back
Against FTC 12/09/2003 05:03 PM
Last month the FTC decided that it was time to crack down on the issue of Windows Messenger spam - which had been getting some attention lately. Messenger spam has nothing to do with instant messaging, but with the Windows Messenger product that is used by network admins and such to alert computer users of important things ("our network is going down for five minutes" or something like that). Most home computers (and many work computers) have no need to have this feature turned on - but many still do and spammers were exploiting that. When the FTC decided to crack down they took action against one company that had been known to send the messages every ten minutes in some cases. It turns out the company is run by two college kids who are now (surprisingly) fight ing back against the FTC. Part of the claim against them was that their spam messages were touting software that could block these messages. As someone points out, it's a bit like "vandals throwing bricks through windows to sell home-security systems." The defense from the kids is that (a) they weren't doing anything illegal by sending out these spam messages (b) the messages did no damage and (c) the software they were selling actually did block those messages. Thus, they say that using messenger spam was actually a good way of targeting customers who needed their software. Of course, they leave out is that you don't actually need any software to turn off the Messenger feature. Their lawyer is also painting them as "good kids" who would never do anything harmful. They might have a case. As much as I believe they knew exactly what they were doing in annoying the hell out of a lot of people, it is questionable whether or not it was illegal.

Microsoft spam-fighting proposal
rejected

Microsoft spam-fighting proposal
rejected 09/19/2004 09:40 AM
CNEWS Sep 19 2004 2:14PM GMT

AOL buys Mailblocks in spam-fighting
effort

AOL buys Mailblocks in spam-fighting
effort 08/04/2004 12:59 PM
America Online Inc. (AOL) has snapped up Web-based e-mail company Mailblocks Inc. in an effort to bolster its own e-mail services with greater antispam protection, mail management, and interface improvements, it said Wednesday.

Microsoft Details Spam Fighting Plans

Microsoft Details Spam Fighting Plans 05/05/2004 03:35 PM

Alliance turns up heat on spam

Alliance turns up heat on spam 06/22/2004 03:30 PM
The Anti-Spam Technical Alliance, which includes AOL and other major ISPs, releases a set of best practices. Among their recommendations: Kill the "zombies."

Other News: Anti-Spam Alliance

Other News: Anti-Spam Alliance 06/23/2004 11:01 AM
The Anti-Spam Technical Alliance issues a new set of guidelines.

Community Spam Fighting Effort Faces
Heat

Community Spam Fighting Effort Faces
Heat 12/19/2004 03:37 PM

Politicians form transatlantic spam
alliance

Politicians form transatlantic spam
alliance 03/29/2005 02:11 AM
ZDNet Australia Mar 29 2005 6:14AM GMT

Microsoft Scores Points Against
Competitors With Spam Fighting
Initiative

Microsoft Scores Points Against
Competitors With Spam Fighting
Initiative 04/27/2004 01:15 PM
ZDNet Apr 27 2004 5:20PM GMT

Symantec Buys Brightmail - A Step
Towards Hybrid Spam Fighting

Symantec Buys Brightmail - A Step
Towards Hybrid Spam Fighting 05/19/2004 05:48 PM
We've talked in the past about how the ways to fight all that ails your computer are converging. Symantec is realizing this, and has decided to to buy anti-spam firm Brightmail for $370 million. Symantec was already an investor in the company and owned approximately 11%. However, it does demonstrate that a single approach to fighting things like spam no longer makes sense. You can't just have a network level protection system or a desktop level protection. Increasingly, computer security requires something of a hybrid model - and this acquisition supports that idea.

Have People Lost A Fighting Spirit
Against Spam Or Is Pew Faking The Data
Again?

Have People Lost A Fighting Spirit
Against Spam Or Is Pew Faking The Data
Again? 04/11/2005 05:58 AM
According to the folks at Pew (who are suffering from a credi bility hit these days), people are growing accustomed to spam. It still annoys people to no end, but it's just become so common that people have given up thinking about it or fighting against it, and just think of it as an annoying fact of life, like traffic. Of course, it's not really clear that the data actually says this. Basically, this conclusion appears to be driven by two stats: (1) people trust email less but (2) they're not reading less email -- sort of. The study actually says 22% of people say they are spending less time on email because of spam, which is down from 29% the year before. However, it's a bit of a stretch to conclude from this one data point that people are resigned to spam. It could mean that email simply has become more important in other aspects. Or, it could mean that most of the people who were really annoyed by spam decreased their email usage last year instead of this year. The problem with the data is that you can't really compare the rate of change this year to last year, because (obviously) they're starting from a different position. Most importantly, this could just be an indication that spam filters have become more effective. It wouldn't be surprising to find out that many people have become resigned to spam -- but the data shown here doesn't actually seem to prove that at all.

Fighting comment spam, linking without
google juice and other reasons to use
the new href attribute

Fighting comment spam, linking without
google juice and other reasons to use
the new href attribute 02/01/2005 08:40 PM
Fighting blog spam, allowing linking to people you don't like without giving them Googlejuice. The new link attribute has many applications. Most like it, but some think its a bad idea.
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