02.02.04China takes action against spam

Xinhua, China writes:
China has launched a campaign to fight junk e-mails, or "spam", during the first half of 2004, reported the China Police Daily last Saturday.

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# | 01.21 | | No comments yet

04.02.04Fighting spam by proxy: UK joins global effort

Out-law.com writes:
The UK government yesterday backed a global anti-spam initiative that will advise businesses around the world on how to secure their servers to prevent them automatically forwarding unsolicited commercial e-mail, or spam.

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# | 06.08 | | No comments yet

06.02.04Stop the Cash Flow, Kill the Spam

The Wired News relates:
The experts don't agree on how spamming might end, but most say the answer isn't in sophisticated tracking technology. It's in what's dear to the hearts of spammers and the people who hate them: money.

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# | 04.27 | | No comments yet

09.02.04US anti-spam law fails to bite

BBC News relates:
Current internet technology allows spammers to hide their identity, such that spam can only be fought through a combination of technology and laws

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# | 01.30 | | No comments yet

12.02.04Spam seen as security risk

News.com writes:
Traditionally, spam has been thought of more as an inconvenience, requiring workers to sift through and delete dozens and sometimes hundreds of e-mail messages per day. There has been a debate over how much of this sifting and deleting affects employee productivity. While some companies have found this to be a sufficient reason to invest in antispam products, others have looked for more compelling reasons.

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# | 02.58 | | No comments yet

18.02.04E-mail viruses blamed as spam rises sharply

Seattle Times relates:
Unsolicited e-mail, or spam, more than doubled to 700 billion messages in January as home personal computers were taken over by viruses.

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# | 06.56 | | No comments yet

20.02.04China publicizes list of 656 spam servers

People's Daily, China writes:
The Internet Society of China (ISA) publicized on February 18 a blacklist of 656 spam servers across the world, and set a deadline for them to stop sending junk mail.

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# | 01.55 | | No comments yet

23.02.04As spam gets tougher, so does filter software

The Daily Times writes:
As senders of junk e-mail grow more cunning in their quest to clog mailboxes with unsolicited ads for mortgage loans and Viagra, makers of filtering software are becoming similarly sophisticated in their efforts to thwart such unwanted mail, or ‘spam’.

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# | 01.37 | | No comments yet

24.02.04Want To Stop Spam? Multiple Techniques in Unison Is the Answer

E-Commerce Times relates:
To fight spam effectively today, organizations must employ a multi-layered approach, which combines a broad set of techniques to turn spam's own objectives, characteristics, and defenses against itself.

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# | 03.13 | | No comments yet

27.02.04Spam villains: named and shamed

The Register relates:
The US sends out more spam than the rest of the world put together according to inbox defenders at Sophos. Also, Sophos believes that a large percentage of spam actually originates in Russia, with spammers using hijacked PCs in the US to distribute their delightful messages.

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# | 07.24 | | No comments yet

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