Report: Stopping Spam

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Stopping SPAM

Stopping SPAM 03/28/2005 03:27 AM
In the April 2005 issue of Scientific American, read an in-depth feature on what can be done to staunch the flood of SPAM email messages and the future of anti-spam technology. [PRWEB Mar 28, 2005]

Where's The Money In Spam? In Stopping
It

Where's The Money In Spam? In Stopping
It 12/02/2003 12:12 AM
I doubt this is all that surprising, but a new report suggests that anti-spam companies will bring in noticeably more revenue than the spammers themselves. Of course, creating anti-spam products actually takes some work, whereas spam is the job of lazy people who have no longterm vision, but just want money as quickly and as easily as possible. Still, when you look at the amount of money spent on both sides, it's fairly stunning just how much money moves due to spam.

Stopping spam at the source

Stopping spam at the source 08/23/2004 06:22 AM
New technology will attack spam at the source to try make it more expensive for spammers to do their dirty work.

Stopping Overseas Fax Spam?

Stopping Overseas Fax Spam? 05/10/2004 05:50 PM

Stopping Spam Patented (Again)

Stopping Spam Patented (Again) 06/02/2004 10:10 AM
Earlier this year, we noted that Postini had receive d a patent for the incredibly obvious concept of anti-spam filtering. Well, it looks like they may be in for some competition, because Network Associates/McAfee has now been awarded a patent for an idea that (sarcasm alert) no one could have possibly come up with prior to December 2002 when they applied for it: us ing a combination of methods such as "filters, paragraph hashing, and Bayes rules" to stop spam. What this really means is that there are now going to be anti-spam patent battles which will slow down the process of stopping spam, and do no one any good, other than a few lawyers who will get rich. Why can't these companies just compete in the marketplace? Still, it would be great if, at some point, AT&T finally made it clear why they patented spamming itself last year.

Microsoft Researchers on Stopping Spam

Microsoft Researchers on Stopping Spam 04/11/2005 11:55 PM

Where's The Backup Plan For Stopping
Spam?

Where's The Backup Plan For Stopping
Spam? 01/17/2004 10:47 PM
Normally, if you're trying to solve a difficult problem, you have a few different plans. If something doesn't work, you need to be ready to move onto plan B. I've been asking since the CAN SPAM bill was passed, how is the government planning to measure how successful (or not) it's been - and what's plan B? Now that it's becoming increasingly clear that CAN SPAM hasn't been even remotely successful - and has basically done nothing to slow down the rise of spam, I want to know again, what is the government's plan B? They were so proud of themselves for passing CAN SPAM, yet they included no money for enforcement, no way to measure how successful it was, and no plan B. In other words, yet another law that makes for a good press release, and a good sound bite at election time, but does nothing to solve a problem.

Panda Chooses Mailshell for Stopping
Spam

Panda Chooses Mailshell for Stopping
Spam 09/23/2004 07:47 PM
Panda Software says it's dropping its own anti-spam technology and "going with a leader" by integrating Mailshell into the full range of its products, from enterprise security appliances to desktop consumer anti-virus products.

Report from the spam/anti-spam summit

Report from the spam/anti-spam summit 04/09/2004 04:05 PM
Danny 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.

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Report: Spam

Report: Spam 09/10/2004 10:39 AM
domain name spoofing

Checking In On CAN SPAM... Still Nothing
To Report

Checking In On CAN SPAM... Still Nothing
To Report 08/05/2004 05:46 PM
You know it's a slow news day when about the most interesting story around is the fact that an anti-spam company has noticed (no, really?) that CAN SPAM hasn't actually cut down on spam. In fact it's working so poorly that spammers have even stopped pretending to comply with it. About one-half of one percent of all spam apparently now complies with CAN SPAM. Good thing we have that law, huh?

How to report spam to Google & Co

How to report spam to Google & Co 09/29/2002 10:00 AM
Stickysauce Sep 29 2002 8:38AM ET

Report: Third of spam spread by
RAT-infested PCs

Report: Third of spam spread by
RAT-infested PCs 12/03/2003 02:40 PM
About 30 percent of spam on the Web is relayed through PCs compromised by malicious programs known as Remote Access Trojans, according to a corporate spam and antivirus company.

Spam Conference Trip Report

Spam Conference Trip Report 01/18/2003 10:48 AM
Spam Conference Trip Report Yesterday was the first ever Spam Conference and it was held at MIT. First off I have to give huge kudos to Paul Graham the organizer. In a little over a month he put together a truly outstanding conference --- and the interest level was astonishing. They expected "50 to 60" and instead 560 signed up. And since the room was basically full and it held 566 by number of seats, I'd say roughly 520 to 540 actually made it. And don't think that these were all local MIT geeks either; I sat next to a researcher from IBM Zurich, had lunch with people from Cloudmark (San Francisco), met the founder of pobox (Philadelphia), spoke with Tony Bowden at length (England) and others. Presentations came from BrightMail, Popfile, Microsoft France, MIT, Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab, ShopIP, MessageLabs and others. Most of the discussions focused on "Naive Statistical Bayesian Classifiers" such as iFile and Popfile (although many other systems were represented including other types). If I can find the papers online I'll post links to them. Otherwise Google for them from the info at the Spam Conference page. More on the conference later or tomorrow.

Gates gives progress report on fight
against spam

Gates gives progress report on fight
against spam 06/29/2004 10:44 AM
Customers of Microsoft Corp.'s Hotmail service play an integral part in the company's fight against junk e-mail, Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates said in an open letter Monday. He also dismissed the idea of generating revenue from spammers by imposing a charge for sending e-mail.

Report: China Hosts Most Spam Websites

Report: China Hosts Most Spam Websites 05/04/2004 09:15 AM

AOL members report significantly less
spam in 2004

AOL members report significantly less
spam in 2004 12/28/2004 07:41 PM
America Online has declared 2004 a "banner year" in its fight against unsolicited commercial e-mail messages, most commonly referred to as spam.

Report: Internet Users Accept Spam

Report: Internet Users Accept Spam 04/10/2005 09:52 PM
CIO Today Apr 11 2005 1:33AM GMT

Bill Gates: Progress Report on SPAM

Bill Gates: Progress Report on SPAM 06/29/2004 07:05 PM

Spam costs businesses millions every
year: report

Spam costs businesses millions every
year: report 06/28/2004 03:29 AM
ZDNet Australia Jun 28 2004 7:54AM GMT

Rising tide of spam, viruses ruining
internet for middle Britain says report

Rising tide of spam, viruses ruining
internet for middle Britain says report 10/31/2003 02:43 AM
PublicTechnology.net Oct 31 2003 1:53AM ET

Spam, spam, spam, spam ... Canada
targets unwanted email (AFP)

Spam, spam, spam, spam ... Canada
targets unwanted email (AFP) 05/12/2004 04:17 AM
AFP - Canada unveiled a new action plan to combat unsolicited commercial e-mail, nicknamed spam, which jams inboxes and clogs Internet traffic worldwide.

Stopping the Internet tax

Stopping the Internet tax 11/13/2003 01:46 AM
Washington Times Nov 13 2003 0:51AM ET

Stopping short

Stopping short 02/01/2005 10:02 PM
A U.N. report says that the crisis in Darfur, Sudan, constitutes "crimes against humanity," but not genocide.

There's No Stopping eBay

There's No Stopping eBay 05/19/2004 05:43 PM
Fortune May 19 2004 9:31PM GMT

No Stopping Starbucks

No Stopping Starbucks 07/22/2004 11:10 AM
The appetite for Starbucks shows no sign of abating.

Stopping Hillary before she starts

Stopping Hillary before she starts 04/12/2005 10:56 AM
Although the senator denies any interest in the presidency, she's becoming the No. 1 target of the right's attack machine.

Stopping Malware Before It Hits

Stopping Malware Before It Hits 11/16/2003 06:14 PM
SpudGunMan writes "John Lockwood, Ph.D, an assistant professor of computer science at Washington University, and the graduate students that work in his ...

I'm stopping the bl0gging thing for a
while

I'm stopping the bl0gging thing for a
while 10/30/2003 08:17 PM
And I'll miss it. I am moving poorbuthappy.com to a new server. I have managed to make the colombia section work, with all its functionality and mod_rewrite crazyness. I haven't been able to install MT. I also haven't been able...

Maddux Wins No. 299 by Stopping Brewers
(AP)

Maddux Wins No. 299 by Stopping Brewers
(AP) 07/27/2004 11:07 PM
AP - Greg Maddux moved within one win of No. 300, and Sammy Sosa homered and doubled in a run in the Chicago Cubs' 7-1 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Tuesday night.

Heart-stopping sandwich of the year

Heart-stopping sandwich of the year 08/23/2004 06:36 AM
Cory Doctorow: Maxim Magazine has selected its sandwich of the year: the Fat Darrell (invented by Darrell Butler during his sophomore year at Rutgers University) contains chicken fingers, mozzarella sticks and french fries. Maxim lauds it for its "drunken ingenuity."

"So, I'm standing there eating it, and all of a sudden the guy standing behind me says, 'That thing that guy's eating looks pretty good, can you make me one of those?' And, it was like a movie scene, the next 10 people order the same thing. So, I'm like, 'Whoa!' like I think I might be onto something. And the guy is like, 'Hey, man, this is cool.'"

That guy who assembled the sandwich was Abdul Eid, working in an R.U. Hungry food truck, parked in a campus lot in New Brunswick, catering to beer-soaked undergraduates with the late-night munchies.

Eid now runs R.U. Hungry Grill & Pizza, a store he was able to open in part due to the success of the $4.75 Fat Darrell, the flagship of R.U.'s "Fat" line.

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Mozilla still champ when it comes to
stopping popups

Mozilla still champ when it comes to
stopping popups 02/11/2003 08:33 AM
Well, that's easy to correct: go to toolbar.google.com, and download Google Toolbar, which brings all of the most useful features of Google--plus a couple of ...

New IT Strategy: Stopping Viruses at the
Gate

New IT Strategy: Stopping Viruses at the
Gate 03/20/2003 01:05 PM
In the past, many companies relied on desktop antivirus software to protect against malicious code. Antivirus firm Trend Micro champions a different strategy: The company aims to filter out viruses at the corporate gateway, before they ever reach the desktop. How does this approach fit into the overall enterprise security picture?

Stopping Computer Viruses Before They
Reach You

Stopping Computer Viruses Before They
Reach You 11/12/2003 01:33 PM
Roland Piquepaille writes "The Washington University in St. Louis (WUSL) announced that one of its computer science teams has developed a new technology to stop computer viruses and worms before they reach your system. John Lockwood and his team didn't use software. Instead, they created an open platform that augments a network with reprogrammable hardware, called the Field-programmable Port Extender (FPX). "The FPX can scan each and every byte of every data packet transmitted through a network at a rate of 2.4 billion bits per second. In other words, the FPX could scan every word in the entire works of Shakespeare in about 1/60th of a second," said Lockwood. Real products based on the technology should appear soon. More excerpts and references are contained in my blog which also includes a photograph of an FPX module." I'm a little confused as to what the big deal is about this. It's basically doing two things: put antivirus protection at the network level instead of the end client, which isn't a new idea at all and using an FPGA hardware solution instead of software (which they seem to be saying is faster). Am I missing something, or is this not that big of a deal?

Comcast Thinks About Stopping Zombies

Comcast Thinks About Stopping Zombies 05/24/2004 08:21 PM

stopping discrimination, part
5,394--Money Talks

stopping discrimination, part
5,394--Money Talks 12/24/2003 04:53 PM
"It's good policy and good business." NYC's Employees Retirement System (5 funds managing $78.6 billion in holdings) is targeting Fortune 500 companies to adopt policies that specifically bar discrimination based on sexual orientation. One of them, CSX Corp., didn't even wait for their shareholder meeting, but immediately amended their policy in response. These funds recently had great success after a decade-long battle with Cracker Barrel Restaurants--infamous for firing gay and lesbian employees because they don't ā€œdemonstrate normal heterosexual values." Here's wishing an especially happy holiday to employees of those companies that have stopped discriminating and hopes for many more to join in. More info on this "shareholder activism" at The Equality Project.

A Benefit To Driving While Yakking:
Bullet Stopping

A Benefit To Driving While Yakking:
Bullet Stopping 06/07/2004 01:56 PM
Joe Schmoe writes in with a link to a story that shows that there may be some additional benefits to driving while yakking (though, in fairly unique circumstances). In South Africa, a man talking on his mobile phone while driving a truck was attacked by gunmen who shot at him. The bullet ripped through his hand, but was stopped from entering his head by the mobile phone. Next thing you know they'll need to start offering Kevlar-based phones.

BT Child Porn Filter Stopping 23,000
Attempts a Day (Reuters)

BT Child Porn Filter Stopping 23,000
Attempts a Day (Reuters) 07/20/2004 06:30 AM
Reuters - BT Group is blocking over 23,000 attempts each day to access child pornography Web sites, the company said on Tuesday, offering a rare glimpse of the extent of demand for such sites.

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 PM
The 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.
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