Spam Bulletin - September 2007

Editor: Helen Martin

Technical Consultant: John Hawes

Technical Editor: Morton Swimmer

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

2007-09-01

Abstract

Anti-spam news; Fighting spam using tar pits (feature)

News

Sender authentication checks on the rise

SPF records creep into top ten content triggers checked by ISPs.



Feature

Fighting spam using tar pits

Tobias Eggendorfer describes how both SMTP and HTTP tar pits offer interesting ways of helping to get rid of spam.

Tobias Eggendorfer - Independent researcher , Germany


Calendar

Anti-spam industry events

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



Virus Bulletin

Virus Bulletin - September 2007

AV is alive and well (comment); The life cycle of bots (feature); Friendly whitelisting and other innovations: a response (opinion); Viva Las Vegas! (conference report); OpenOffice security and viral risk (technical feature); BitDefender Total Security 2008 (product review)



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