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Symantec Buys Brightmail - A Step
Towards Hybrid Spam Fighting
Symantec Buys Brightmail - A Step
Towards Hybrid Spam Fighting
05/19/2004 05:48 PMWe'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.
Symantec to Buy Anti-Spam Firm
Brightmail
Symantec to Buy Anti-Spam Firm
Brightmail
05/19/2004 08:48 PMSecurity software maker Symantec announced Wednesday it is acquiring
the anti-spam firm Brightmail in a cash deal valued at about $370
million.
Symantec to acquire anti-spam firm
Brightmail for $370 million
Symantec to acquire anti-spam firm
Brightmail for $370 million
05/20/2004 01:21 AMSiliconValley.com May 20 2004 4:54AM GMT
Symantec to Buy Anti-Spam Firm for
$370M (AP)
Symantec to Buy Anti-Spam Firm for
$370M (AP)
05/19/2004 06:05 PMAP - Security software maker Symantec Corp. announced Wednesday it is
acquiring the anti-spam firm Brightmail Inc. in a cash deal valued at
about $370 million.
Symantec to buy anti-spam company
(SiliconValley.com)
Symantec to buy anti-spam company
(SiliconValley.com)
05/20/2004 08:47 AMSiliconValley.com - Symantec, seeking to broaden its software
technology to battle the growing flood of junk e-mail, announced
Wednesday that it is paying $370 million in cash for anti-spam
company Brightmail.
Symantec buys anti-spam router maker
TurnTide
Symantec buys anti-spam router maker
TurnTide
07/13/2004 07:07 AMSymantec Corp. has snatched up six-month-old router vendor TurnTide
Inc. for an undisclosed sum.
University of Delaware Chooses Roaring
Penguin Software’s CanIt-PRO, Gives
End-Users Control Over Fighting E-Mail
Spam
University of Delaware Chooses Roaring
Penguin Software’s CanIt-PRO, Gives
End-Users Control Over Fighting E-Mail
Spam
07/06/2004 03:36 AMPositive experience using robust MIMEDefang software leads networking
and systems group to upgrade to commercial product. [PRWEB Jul 6,
2004]
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 AMThe 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.
Anti-spam activists targets of
spam-spawning virus
Anti-spam activists targets of
spam-spawning virus
12/06/2003 09:45 AMCanadian Press Dec 6 2003 9:11AM ET
Anti-Spam Legislation Makes Spam More
Malicious
Anti-Spam Legislation Makes Spam More
Malicious
04/29/2004 01:28 PMAren't unintended consequences wonderful? Now that anti-spam
legislation is becoming popular, one result is that spammers aren't
wasting time with just spamming mortgage offers and ways to buy
Viagra. Instead, now that they realize they're definitely on illegal
ground, they're
moving more towards malicious attack spam, including phishing
attacks and trojan horse attacks. In other words, if they're going to
break the law with spam, they figure they might as well go all out.
MessageLabs taps Brightmail in war on
spam
MessageLabs taps Brightmail in war on
spam
09/02/2004 11:37 AMRage against the junk mail tsunami
Brightmail leaks other user's spam
Brightmail leaks other user's spam
07/02/2004 06:13 PMThomas Springer (Jul 01 2004)
Report from the spam/anti-spam summit
Report from the spam/anti-spam summit
04/09/2004 04:05 PMDanny O'Brien has written up one of the first summits between spammers
and spam-fighters for the Guardian. It's a great piece.
Surprisingly, no such shootings occur. It's oddly intimate, watching
the spammers and the anti-spammers mill around each other like this.
It feels like a temporary ceasefire in a vicious war that to most of
us seems to be a stalemate...
Over the past year, though, a series of meetings arranged by a trusted
figure in the American anti-spam community, Anne Mitchell, have been
slowly bringing the two sides together. These mini-conferences, held
under the banner of the Institute for Spam and Internet Public Policy,
have mostly been between the highest-ranking ISPs - MSN, AOL - and
commercial email marketers of the most squeaky clean kind. Initially
in secret, these days the meetings are more public.
Link
(
via Oblomovka)
Brightmail partners to fight instant
spam
Brightmail partners to fight instant
spam
06/08/2004 01:47 PMSpam, spam, spam, spam ... Canada
targets unwanted email (AFP)
Spam, spam, spam, spam ... Canada
targets unwanted email (AFP)
05/12/2004 04:17 AMAFP - Canada unveiled a new action plan to combat unsolicited
commercial e-mail, nicknamed spam, which jams inboxes and clogs
Internet traffic worldwide.
Spam vs. Anti-Spam: the war escalates!
Spam vs. Anti-Spam: the war escalates!
06/22/2004 02:47 AMEvery time someone introduces a new anti-spam technique, some wily
spammer devises a workaround. This myriad of actions and reactions is
going to tie our e-mail system in knots. The only real solution to
unsolicited mail is to eliminate the problem altogether by stopping
spam at the source. To this end, the folks at ImagineNation have
proposed an eMstamp solution and have set out to publicly answer the
many questions that the proposal has raised. [PRWEB Jun 22, 2004]
Will the new anti-spam legislation cut
spam?
Will the new anti-spam legislation cut
spam?
12/18/2003 02:16 AMNow the CAN SPAM legislation has passed into law, will it actually cut
spam?
Ref:
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/3
67866, Jul 1 2004 1:19PM, Subj:
Brightmail leaks other user's spam
Ref:
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/3
67866, Jul 1 2004 1:19PM, Subj:
Brightmail leaks other user's spam
07/14/2004 10:08 AMSym Security (Jul 14 2004)
Finance Spam Passing Drug Spam While
Porn Spam Is Washed Up
Finance Spam Passing Drug Spam While
Porn Spam Is Washed Up
05/24/2004 05:37 PMThe latest study on spam trends appears to show that
financial spam is outpacing pharmaceutical spam
- though, honestly, so much of both is coming out that it's really
hard to imagine that this matters at all. Meanwhile, it seems that
porn spam is increasingly less interesting to spammers as the numbers
have been on a noticeable decline for quite some time. No matter
what, though, it appears that CAN-SPAM has done absolutely nothing to
slow down the amount of spam sent.
Fighting spam: Opting out is in
Fighting spam: Opting out is in
06/23/2004 01:13 AMStraits Times Jun 23 2004 5:26AM GMT
Fighting spam with insults?
Fighting spam with insults?
06/01/2004 03:50 AMOne of my many domains have been used by spammers for a while.
Unfortunately its not much I can do about it, without spending a...
Fighting comment spam
Fighting comment spam
02/01/2005 08:40 PMJay 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 with Digital IDs
Fighting Spam with Digital IDs
12/05/2002 07:49 PMJon Udell on the pitfalls of permission-based spam filters: If we rule
out spontaneous association then we will not have...
New Google Spam Fighting
New Google Spam Fighting
03/11/2003 01:22 AMWebmasterWorld: 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 on Linux
Fighting spam on Linux
07/15/2004 03:08 AMSymantec to buy spam-blocker
Symantec to buy spam-blocker
05/20/2004 04:13 AMZDNet UK May 20 2004 8:21AM GMT
Guide for Fighting Comment Spam
Guide for Fighting Comment Spam
01/04/2005 08:15 PMCall it a late holiday gift or a great way to start the new year. In
either case, we are...
Step one in comment spam fighting
Step one in comment spam fighting
11/14/2003 10:54 PMOne 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.
Think Spam Is Tough? Try Fighting Spim
Think Spam Is Tough? Try Fighting Spim
06/08/2004 06:58 PMInternet.com Jun 8 2004 9:51PM GMT
Fighting Spam with DNA Sequencing
Algorithms
Fighting Spam with DNA Sequencing
Algorithms
08/22/2004 08:18 AMOlive Powers Hosting Services with
Anti-virus & Anti-spam
Olive Powers Hosting Services with
Anti-virus & Anti-spam
09/04/2004 03:04 AMOlive Web Hosting, a full-service division of Olive e-Business, offers
a state-of-the-art anti-virus cover, an anti-spam gateway, plus a
suite of other features one needs most for robust, secure and
hassle-free hosting. [PRWEB Sep 4, 2004]
Copyrighted Haiku Delivers Spam Through
Filters
Copyrighted Haiku Delivers Spam Through
Filters
01/19/2004 05:00 AMLatest ideas for fighting spam not the
greatest
Latest ideas for fighting spam not the
greatest
03/06/2004 01:55 AMSiliconValley.com Feb 25 2004 11:47AM GMT
Messenger Spam Senders Fighting Back
Against FTC
Messenger Spam Senders Fighting Back
Against FTC
12/09/2003 05:03 PMLast 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.
AOL buys Mailblocks in spam-fighting
effort
AOL buys Mailblocks in spam-fighting
effort
08/04/2004 12:59 PMAmerica 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 spam-fighting proposal
rejected
Microsoft spam-fighting proposal
rejected
09/19/2004 09:40 AMCNEWS Sep 19 2004 2:14PM GMT
Microsoft Details Spam Fighting Plans
Microsoft Details Spam Fighting Plans
05/05/2004 03:35 PMFractured Realities: Fighting Against
Comment Spam
Fractured Realities: Fighting Against
Comment Spam
02/01/2005 09:14 PMIn 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.
Spam fighting hurts legitimate business?
Spam fighting hurts legitimate business?
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