January 22nd, 2010 10:21am
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We all know how tricky it can be to stay ahead of spammers, and their “always-evolving” methods. I know that our CudaMail.com specialists are constantly adapting and tweaking rules and filters to stay ahead.
Here’s a story from the Register about how modern spam filtering has forced a long-time Canadian publication to have to change it’s name. It’s a good thing that Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewalls are easy to tweak and adjust!
Spam filters stuff Canadian Beaver
Venerable magazine to adopt less suggestive title
By Lester Haines
Posted on theRegister.co.uk 13th January 2010 14:41 GMT
Publisher Deborah Morrison explained to AFP: “The Beaver was an impediment online. Several readers asked us to change the title because their spam filters at home or at work were blocking it. I’ve even had emails bounce back because I had inadvertently typed the term in the heading."
She added: “Nearly a century ago, it probably seemed the perfect name for a magazine about the fur trade and Canada’s northwest frontier. There was only one interpretation for the word then. But you’re likely to find a lot of [porn] sites now if you search for the title of our history magazine online.”
The 90-year-old title will, after the Feb/March issue, be known as Canada’s History.
Other Beavers of note which can be found online are the newspaper of the London School of Economics Students’ Union, a Toronto restaurant offering a range of tongue-tingling delights and a film starring Mel Gibson and Jodie Foster. ®
The original story from TheRegister.
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Continue Reading December 15th, 2009 02:00pm
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On Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 06:20 (GMT), Project Honey Pot achieved a
milestone: receiving its 1 billionth spam message.
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Continue Reading October 16th, 2009 11:33am
Shaun
Users of email security and archiving service Postini were frustrated last week when the service began experiencing significant delivery problems.
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Continue Reading June 26th, 2009 03:46pm
Shaun
A lot of GMail users have been angered by a lot more spam reaching their inboxes, than they were used to.
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Continue Reading April 27th, 2009 05:37pm
Shaun
US-CERT is aware of public reports of email scams circulating related to the Swine Flu. The attacks arrive via an unsolicited email message typically containing a subject line related to the Swine Flu. These email messages may contain a link or an attachment. If users click on this link or open the attachment, they may be directed to a phishing website or exposed to malicious code.
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Continue Reading April 9th, 2009 12:17pm
Shaun
US-CERT is aware of public reports of malicious code circulating via spam email messages related to bogus terror attacks in the recipient’s local area.
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Continue Reading March 3rd, 2009 02:06pm
Shaun
Malware called Tigger/Syzor which is a safe mode rootkit password stealing Trojan that targets day traders.
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Continue Reading February 19th, 2009 02:57pm
Shaun
The Internet Storm Center is reporting that several AV vendors have confirmed that the recently patch IE 7 vulnerability (MS-09-002 Uninitialized Memory Corruption) has been reverse engineered by the malware writers (so quickly!)
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February 6th, 2009 08:09pm
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US-CERT Current Activity
IRS Stimulus Package Phishing Scam
Original release date: February 6, 2009 at 10:03 am Last revised: February 6, 2009 at 10:03 am
US-CERT is aware of public reports indicating that phishing scams are circulating via fraudulent U.S. Internal Revenue Service emails offering users stimulus package payments. These emails include text that attempts to convince users to follow a link to a website or to complete an attached document. The website and document request that the user provide personal information.
US-CERT encourages users to do the following to help mitigate the risks:
* Do not follow unsolicited web links received in email messages.
* Refer to the Recognizing and Avoiding Email Scams (pdf) document
for more information on avoiding email scams.
* Refer to the Avoiding Social Engineering and Phishing Attacks
(pdf) document for more information on social engineering attacks.
Relevant Url(s):
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This entry is available at: http://www.us-cert.gov/current/index.html#irs_stimulus_package_phishing_scam
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Continue Reading January 26th, 2009 04:41pm
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It took less than 3 months for the Spammers to ramp up their production to 90% of where it was pre-McColo takedown in November 2008 according to a number of reports and graphs available online.
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