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.
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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