Microsoft Researchers on 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]

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.

Stopping Overseas Fax Spam?

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

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.

Report: Stopping Spam

Report: Stopping Spam 09/13/2004 10:32 AM
SPF (Sender Policy Framework) is definitely worth a look for mail administrators.

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.

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.

Microsoft Patents Borg Technology June
23 - 9:06 PM ET Researchers at Microsoft
have devised a technique to as

Microsoft Patents Borg Technology June
23 - 9:06 PM ET Researchers at Microsoft
have devised a technique to as 06/23/2004 10:35 PM
BetaNews Jun 24 2004 2:04AM GMT

Microsoft researchers dream big

Microsoft researchers dream big 06/09/2004 06:56 PM
From "band-aids" for fresh security holes to software that will read your news for you, Bill Gates' think tank is on it.

Microsoft shifts researchers to Windows
unit

Microsoft shifts researchers to Windows
unit 08/03/2004 02:37 PM
About 70 workers may be on Longhorn for the long haul as the software giant works up its next version of Windows.

Researchers defend study that Microsoft
had paid for

Researchers defend study that Microsoft
had paid for 03/28/2005 08:39 AM
Seattle Times Mar 28 2005 12:24PM GMT

Microsoft researchers thumb noses at
digit's limits

Microsoft researchers thumb noses at
digit's limits 04/18/2005 06:16 PM
CNET News.com Apr 18 2005 9:49PM GMT

Microsoft calls for outbound spam
filtering against spam

Microsoft calls for outbound spam
filtering against spam 06/04/2004 10:42 AM
Computer Weekly Jun 4 2004 2:14PM GMT

Eight New CAN-SPAM Suits: Microsoft
Microsoft has filed eight lawsuits
against suspected spammers under the co

Eight New CAN-SPAM Suits: Microsoft
Microsoft has filed eight lawsuits
against suspected spammers under the co 06/11/2004 10:34 PM
AVN Online Jun 12 2004 2:04AM GMT

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.

No Stopping Starbucks

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

There's No Stopping eBay

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

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...

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 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?

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 ...

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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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?

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.

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 “demonstrate 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.

Slowing and Stopping E-Mail Viruses in
an Exchange 2003 Environment

Slowing and Stopping E-Mail Viruses in
an Exchange 2003 Environment 05/09/2004 10:39 PM
This document provides you with recommendations on how to fortify an Exchange environment against e-mail transmitted viruses and worms. Resources for the implementation details related to the recommendations are included. Suggestions are given on what to do when a virus attack occurs.

Mobile Technology Key To Stopping U.S.
Slide From Tech Preeminence, Intel Chief
Says

Mobile Technology Key To Stopping U.S.
Slide From Tech Preeminence, Intel Chief
Says 04/09/2005 05:20 PM
Information Week Apr 9 2005 9:37PM GMT

AOL, Microsoft Spar on Spam

AOL, Microsoft Spar on Spam 09/17/2004 12:29 PM
America Online disses Microsoft's SenderID.

Spitzer, Microsoft vs. spam

Spitzer, Microsoft vs. spam 12/18/2003 03:21 AM
USA Today Dec 18 2003 2:53AM ET

Spam: Microsoft to the rescue

Spam: Microsoft to the rescue 12/22/2003 12:40 PM
Microsoft takes spam seriously. Not only does the newly released version of Outlook -- part of the company's new Office System 2003 upgrade for the ubiquitous suite of Office desktop productivity tools -- contain a remarkably effective in-computer spam filter, but now it has joined forces with New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer in a lawsuit against one of the world's top spamming operations.

The company has been investigating spam operators for the last six months, according to sources, and recently announced that it was a plaintiff in six anti-spam lawsuits against operators that may be responsible for as much as 90 per cent of the spam tide ordinary users will have seen in recent months.

Put Up Or Shut Up Time For Microsoft on
Spam

Put Up Or Shut Up Time For Microsoft on
Spam 07/25/2004 09:08 AM
eWeek Jul 25 2004 1:12PM GMT
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