Spam Blocking 360

The effects of the McColo shut down appear to be all but over. Security experts say spam has risen by 159% since November 2008. When McColo was knocked off the net after the discovery that it hosted a wide variety of child porn and malware sites, spam volumes plummeted by 75%, largely due to the [...]

Source:Spam Up 159% Since November 2008

Or, rather, can any law stop spam?
During recent years, numerous pieces of legislation have been introduced to combat spam. The US has the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 in addition to numerous state-level laws; the EU has the E-Privacy Directive, the E-Commerce Directive and various other directives in addition to numerous national laws; Australia has the [...]

Source:Can CAN-SPAM can spam?

When planning an email security solution many organizations put a lot of thought and effort into protecting their environment from external threats.  They use such measures as blocklists and content filtering to prevent spam from reaching end user mailboxes.
Despite this effort some businesses fail to also consider filtering outbound emails.  Often the outbound email path [...]

Source:The importance of filtering outgoing email in Exchange environments

Spam comes in all shapes and sizes. Besides the traditional email spam, spammers target forums, blogs, and now, for the first time I’ve seen them targeting Web 2.0 B2B sites with a variation of the old Nigerian 419 scam, this one involving advanced fee fraud. Small businesses and one-man shops should take note and beware [...]

Source:SOHO businesses beware of 419 scam

Learn about phishing and how pattern based filters are an organization’s best defense against this pervasive security threat.

Source:Phishing quickly becoming IT's number one network security threat.

Not surprisingly, spammers have begun a new attack exploiting the upcoming Valentine’s Day holiday.  New spam messages with subject lines such as “Falling in love with you”, “I belong to you”, and “I love being in love with you” have begun hitting inboxes. Security experts say the attack started on January 22nd. The body of [...]

Source:New Valentine’s Day Spam Attack Underway

AT&T appears to have made a monumental blunder. Over the past week they sent text messages to most of their customers. The messages were ads for American Idol, and urged customers to watch the season premiere. The backlash has been considerable as angry users accused the company of spamming them. Many used Twitter to express [...]

Source:AT&T Accused of Spamming Its Own Customers

Security experts have issued warnings about a new type of spam hitting inboxes across the globe. Called “piggyback spam”, it looks like the typical spam message hawking things like shady pharmacies, fake watches, loans, etc, but rather than links to websites where the products can be ordered, these spams are full of links to malicious [...]

Source:New “Piggyback” Spam Circulating Worldwide

Learn about phishing and how pattern based filters are an organization’s best defense against this pervasive security threat.

Source:Phishing quickly becoming IT's number one network security threat.