VB - 2007 11 Spam Bulletin - November 2007

Spam Bulletin - November 2007

Editor: Helen Martin

Technical Consultant: John Hawes

Technical Editor: Morton Swimmer

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

2007-11-01

Abstract

Anti-spam news; Evading SpamAssassin with obfuscated text images (feature)


News

Supermarket sweep

Phishers almost get away with $10m scam.



Melissa has users CAPTCHA'd

Spammers offer strip show for correctly completed CAPTCHAs.



The sound of spam

Firm reports 15 million MP3 spams in October.



Feature

Evading SpamAssassin with obfuscated text images

Battista Biggio and colleagues assess the performance of popular open source spam filter SpamAssassin against image spam with obfuscated text.

Battista Biggio - University of Cagliari, Italy, Giorgio Fumera - , Ignazio Pillai - , Fabio Roli - & Riccardo Satta -


Calendar

Anti-spam industry events

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



Virus Bulletin

Virus Bulletin - November 2007

Search engines in research and vulnerability assessment (comment); Application whitelisting (letter); Spam from the kernel (analysis); Anonymous proxies: the threat to corporate security enforcement (feature); Malware storms: a global climate change (feature); Birds of a feather (book review); ESET Smart Security (product review)




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