Virus Bulletin Spam Supplement - August 2008

Editor: Helen Martin

Technical Consultant: John Hawes

Technical Editor: Morton Swimmer

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

2008-08-01

Abstract

Anti-spam news; Evading CAPTCHA (feature)

News

Prolific spammer jailed

Robert Soloway to remain behind bars for 47 months.

Helen Martin - Virus Bulletin, UK


Comment

Evading CAPTCHA

Martin Overton looks at the use of CAPTCHAs in web security and at how cybercriminals are making increasing attempts to evade them.

Martin Overton - Independent researcher, UK


Calendar

Anti-spam industry events

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



Virus Bulletin

Virus Bulletin - August 2008

The secret life of old malware (comment); 'Yet another Rustock analysis...' (rootkit analysis); The case for AV for Linux: Linux/Rst-B (feature); Improving heuristics (feature); VB100 on Windows XP SP3 (comparative review)



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