VB - 2008 05

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Virus Bulletin Spam Supplement - May 2008

Virus Bulletin Spam Supplement - May 2008

Editor: Helen Martin

Technical Consultant: John Hawes

Technical Editor: Morton Swimmer

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

2008-05-01

Abstract

Anti-spam news; Delivering reliable protection against phishing websites (feature)


News

New home for The Spammers’ Compendium

Spammers' trick repository moves to VB.

Helen Martin - Virus Bulletin, UK


Feature

Delivering reliable protection against phishing websites

Sorin Mustaca describes the creation of an automated URL filtering system for protecting against phishing websites.

Sorin Mustaca - Avira, Germany


Calendar

Anti-spam industry events

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



Virus Bulletin

Virus Bulletin - May 2008

Online banking call to arms (comment); Algorithms for grouping similar samples in malware analysis (feature); Metamorphic authorship recognition using Markov models (feature); Blended malware defence (opinion); eEye Digital Security Blink Professional 4.0 (product review)




Poll

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