Virus Bulletin Spam Supplement - December 2008

Editor: Helen Martin

Technical Consultant: John Hawes

Technical Editor: Morton Swimmer

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

2008-12-01

Abstract

Anti-spam news; Fighting phishing at browser level (feature)

News

Spam levels bounce back

Spam levels rise again after massive drop.

Helen Martin - Virus Bulletin, UK


Comment

Fighting phishing at the browser level

Alexandru Cosoi describes a method that attempts to deal with the phishing problem at the browser level, by combining both whitelisting and content-based solutions in a web page forgery detector.

Alexandru C. Cosoi - BitDefender, Romania


Calendar

Anti-spam industry events

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



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Poll

Do you use the same password(s) across multiple websites?
I use the same password for all sites
I have a number of passwords but use the same for some sites
I use a different password for each site
I don't sign up to any sites that require a password

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  • 7th German Anti Spam Summit 2009
  • Anti-phishing landing page: turning a 404 into a teachable moment
  • An update on spamming botnets: are we losing the war?
  • Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition SP2 x86
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