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Spam Bulletin - February 2007

Spam Bulletin - February 2007

Editor: Helen Martin

Technical Consultant: John Hawes

Technical Editor: Morton Swimmer

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

2007-02-01

Abstract

Anti-spam news; OSBF-Lua (feature)

News

Upcoming events

Round up of this year's must-attend spam events.



Feature

OSBF-Lua

One of the top performers in the TREC 2006 spam filter evaluation was OSBF-Lua. Here, its creator Fidelis Assis describes the technology behind it.

Fidelis Assis - Empresa Brasileira de Telecomunicações - Embratel, Brazil


Virus Bulletin

Virus Bulletin - February 2007

The malware epidemic (comment); Cain and Abul (analysis); Defeating IRC bots on the internal network (feature); Web server botnets and hosting farms as attack platforms (feature); VB2007 Vienna (call for papers); Windows Vista (comparative review)



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