Archive for September, 2008

Comment Spam Filter Comes To Rescue Akismet

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

Fighting Comment Spam on a WordPress blog is a never ending battle. Since I provide DoFollow options and use 2 plugins that reward commenters even more: CommentLuv and KeywrodLuv - I get a LOT of comment spam. Ever since I…

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ECO and Bizanga to Provide a Common Platform for ISPs to Share Information in Real Time for…

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

ECO and Bizanga to Provide a Common Platform for ISPs to Share Information in Real Time for Combating Spam SAN MATEO, California and COLOGNE, Germany, September 25 /PRNewswire/ — - Bizanga to Integrate eco’s Certified…

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Barracuda opens up spam blocking list

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

Barracuda has announced it is opening up its spam blocking list for companies to use for free. The Barracuda Reputation Block List (BRBL) is a dynamically updated list of known spam servers that can be used to block spam…

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Kaspersky: Worry About Trojans, Mobile Phone Worms

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

Russian security giant Kaspersky Lab on Wednesday released its mid-year report on current trends in malware along with a report on spam trends. The upshot? Trojans continue to dominate the threat radar, and mobile-phone…

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Skype spam on the rise

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

For those who regularly use instant messaging services like Yahoo! Instant Messenger and Microsoft’s MSN Messenger, you know that IM spam arrived long ago and shows no signs of leaving. Yesterday, however, I received my…

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Commtouch and AXIGEN to Launch Integrated Email Security Product

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

AXIGEN (http://www.axigen.com), a leading messaging solution provided by Gecad Technologies, and Commtouch® (NASDAQ:CTCH) (http://www.commtouch.com), a provider of email and web security technology, today announced the…

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Websense Makes Web and Email Security a Smooth Ride for Metro St. Louis

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

SAN DIEGO, CA–(Marketwire - That’s when Metro turned to Websense for email and Web security protection. “We’re well aware of the threats to our network that come from the Web, Web 2.0 applications and through email,” said…

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Six of One, Half Dozen of Another

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

Posted on: Wednesday, 24 September 2008, 03:00 CDT By Kaser, Dick OK, “they” tell me email is mostly spam now. Day in and day out, messages that are unrelated to my current work assignments or job responsibilities come…

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Spam evolution: January-June 2008

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

This year may see a seasonal fall in spam. Percentage of spam in mail traffic In the first quarter of 2008, the share of spam on the Russian internet averaged 85% of all mail traffic. HTML messages tend to range from 1 to…

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Deconstructing Diggboss

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

Posted on 23 September 2008 by Brian Cuban The social site application of scripts and bots have been around as long as their have been social sites. The Digg Application Programming Interface (API) has been created to let…

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