VB - 2007 08 Spam Bulletin - August 2007

Spam Bulletin - August 2007

Editor: Helen Martin

Technical Consultant: John Hawes

Technical Editor: Morton Swimmer

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

2007-08-01

Abstract

Anti-spam news; Email sender authentication: advantages and shortcomings (feature)


News

Spammers sentenced

Sentences for first US spammer to be convicted under CAN-SPAM and Australian mobile phone marketers.



Feature

Email sender authentication: advantages and shortcomings

Alberto Treviño and Dr J. J. Ekstrom detail the advantages and shortcomings of email sender authentication as an anti-spam technique, explaining why they consider it a useful technique in the fight against spam.

Alberto Treviño - Brigham Young University, USA & J. J. Ekstrom Ph.D. - Brigham Young University, USA


Calendar

Anti-spam industry events

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



Virus Bulletin

Virus Bulletin - August 2007

Are you invisible? (comment); The dark side of whitelisting (opinion); VB2007 call for last-minute papers; Profiling binaries for instrumentation (feature); Windows Vista x64 Business Edition (comparative review)




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