Spam Bulletin - March 2006

Editor: Helen Martin

Technical Consultant: Matt Ham

Technical Editor: Morton Swimmer

Consulting Editor: Ian Whalley, Nick FitzGerald, Richard Ford, Edward Wilding

2006-03-01

Abstract

Anti-spam news; fighting spam with data compression models (feature)


News

Dutch police arrest Nigerian scammers

419 scamming ring uncovered.



China to crack down on spam

China toughens up its anti-spam regulations.



Vigilant staff avert phishing scam

Scammers halted in their tracks.



Feature

Fighting spam with data compression models

Andrej Bratko describes a spam filtering technique that treats email as a sequence of characters, rather than a collection of words.

Andrej Bratko - Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia


Virus Bulletin

Virus Bulletin - March 2006

View from the cheap seats (comment); Proxies for the underworld: I-Worm.Locksky.AS (virus analysis); IM_a nuisance - W32.Imav.A (virus analysis); How can a web filter add proactive security? (feature); Improving proactive detection of packed malware (feature); Changes to the VB test sets (comparative update); Solving the metamorphic puzzle (technical feature)



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