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)

Magazine


	August 2007 PDF Please register to download the PDF Comment Are you invisible? News AV market growth and predictions Security for critical infrastructures Malware prevalence report June 2007 Opinion The dark side of whitelisting Call for papers VB2007 call for last-minute papers Feature Profiling binaries for instrumentation Comparative review VB comparative review: Windows Vista x64 Business Edition Calendar Anti-malware industry events Spam Bulletin Spammers sentenced Email sender authentication: advantages and shortcomings See also Virus Bulletin archives How to become a subscriber Reprints