Spam Bulletin - May 2007

Editor: Helen Martin

Technical Consultant: John Hawes

Technical Editor: Morton Swimmer

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

2007-05-01

Abstract

Anti-spam news; MIT Spam Conference 2007 (conference report)

News

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VB stops spammer in his tracks.



Feature

MIT Spam Conference 2007

John Graham-Cumming provides a roundup of the papers and presentations at the fifth MIT Spam Conference.

John Graham-Cumming - Independent author, France


Calendar

Anti-spam industry events

Must-attend events in the anti-spam industry - dates, locations and further details.



Virus Bulletin

Virus Bulletin - May 2007

Securing the Web 2.0 (comment); ANI-hilate this week (analysis); Beyond Virtu(e) and evil (analysis); Nirbot: targeted attacks get personal (analysis); Covert zombie ops (feature); Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security 2007 (product review)



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