| New Spam Trick Mimics Newsletters
Spammers have now resorted to using legitimate newsletters and electronic advertisements from top brands such as the NFL, Amazon, Wal-Mart, eBay, ESPN, US Airways, Kohls, Verizon, and 1-800-Flowers to bypass human and software controls. The code from real company Web sites are lifted and legitimate e-mails are edited then sent through spam channels. by Josephine Roque .
Storm Worm, Symantec, and Java - The BugBlog Report 1/22/07
If you want information on the storms hitting Europe, stick to the Weather Channel. Do not open an email attachment that comes with the subject line "230 dead as storm batters Europe". If you do, you may end up with the Storm Worm Trojan Horse that opens a back door on your computer and will later steal data or send out spam. Read more at ZDnet.com.It's not quite Night of the Living Dead, but an army of remotely controlled zombie computers are targeting computers running old versions of Symantec Client Security and Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition. You can read about the details at ZDnet.com. Note that Symantec's consumer software, Norton Antivirus and Norton Internet Security, are not affected. Symantec actually patched the hole being used on 5/25/2006, so victims have had ample time to apply the fix.
Latest Cloudmark Release Lets ISPs Deliver Unprecedented Accuracy, Virtually Eliminating Spam
The latest release of Cloudmark Authority, the leading messaging anti-abuse solution for ISPs worldwide, improves on Cloudmark's current accuracy advantage to further reduce the volume of spam, phishing, and viruses impacting subscribers. Cloudmark Authority 2.0 introduces Active Scan to all but eliminate messaging abuse from the user experience. Cloudmark has also enhanced usage reporting and message classification to enable new, differentiated services. As the sheer volume of abusive messages continues to rise, now exceeding 90% of 100 billion messages sent daily, minimizing email-borne threats has become a critical factor in maintaining subscriber satisfaction and keeping operational costs under control. Cloudmark Authority 2.0 introduces powerful innovations to address key operational, customer service, and marketing challenges for service providers.
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