About 500 programmers, researchers, hackers and IT administrators gathered ay the Massachusetts Institute of Technology earlier this month seeking not just to slow the relentless onslaught of spam but to destroy its business model completely.
Technology solutions rather than legal ones appear a more promising answer to New Zealand organisations’ growing spam problem, users say.
Will 2003 be the year in which we begin to win the war on spam? If George Bush would only get his mind off Iraq, he could devote some attention to laws that would knock the platoons of US-based spammers on the head. Fat chance.
The advent of the holiday season has brought with it a more than 20%t increase in the volume of spam traffic, according to a statement released by Brightmail.
Spam is nearing a crisis point for email users and administrators. But we don't have to accept it as an inevitable force of nature. The first step in the fight against spam is to dispel the notion that users are powerless against the onslaught. There is an expanding array of anti-spam tools we can deploy throughout our messaging infrastructures.
A new study has found that 11.7% of messages that were requested by an email subscriber never reached the recipient's inbox. Six percent were incorrectly routed to a junk mail folder, and 5.7% never arrived in any form.
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and 12 state and local law enforcement officials have launched an initiative to fight fraudulent spam and internet scams.
We’ve proved it. As long suspected and advised by many internet users, “unsubscribing” from spam mailing lists usually just buys you more trouble.
Three consumer groups have launched a petition drive to ask the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to stop deceptive and unsolicited commercial junk email, or spam, from filling the in-boxes of internet users.
The Ministry of Social Development takes a fairly tolerant attitude to spam that does no active harm to processors or infrastructure, says infrastructure chief Neil Miranda.
Part of solving the spam problem is penetrating the spam’s probably disguised point of origination, so more permanent remedies than filtering can be taken. The question of vulnerable servers that unknowingly pass on spam and disguise its origins is pertinent here.
At least you have some protection against viruses. But unsolicited email — spam — keeps on coming. And it’s set to exponentially increase, as Asian junk-marketeers get into the game. How can you fight back?
US states are raising the price of sending spam, while the New Zealand government – having a hard time even declaring hacking illegal -- has not even considered putting spam under the law yet.
Telecommunications provider Sprint is embroiled in a legal battle over unsolicited email allegedly sent out by the company in Utah, where state law prohibits spam.
Paul Vixie, an internet pioneer and the primary developer of BIND, will air his views on the bane of the email age – spam – at Uniforum’s annual conference.