Government agencies take anti-phishing action

Spear-phishing awareness training and testing for staff.

UK anti-spam victory for Microsoft

Lawsuit won against UK spammer.

The TREC 2006 Spam Filter Evaluation Track

The 15th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2006) took place in November 2006. For the second time, TREC included a spam track, whose purpose was to create realistic standardized benchmarks to measure spam filter effectiveness in a laboratory setting. Gordon Cormack reports on the results.

Virus Bulletin - January 2007

Déjà vu all over again (comment); Do the macarena (analysis); The great prepender: W32/Nubys-A (analysis); The real motive behind Stration (feature); From immunology to heuristics (insight); VB2007 Vienna (call for papers); Sophos Enterprise Security (product review)