Anti-spam refers to services and solutions that focus on blocking and mitigating the effects of illegal emails – or spam – on email users. To achieve this objective, different types of anti-spam systems have been integrated with the email systems of many email and Internet service providers ...
Every Internet user knows the word ‘spam’ and sees it in their inbox quite often. But not everyone knows that years ago the word ‘spam’ had nothing to do with…
And while phishing attacks that cast a wide net are a type of spam, they usually have more nefarious goals — such as fraud, identity theft, and even corporate espionage. The email shown below is an example of the infamous advance-fee “Nigerian prince” phishing scam. A browser with anti...
That is why a few years ago an Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) was established which included both the companies that the phishers target, and anti-phishing/antispam software vendors. APWG holds information sessions to try to inform users about the problem. In addition APWG members inform...
Email spoofing is a synonym for a phishing attack. It has been an issue since the ‘70s, and it started with spammers using it to bypass email spam filters. Over 3 billion spoofing emails are sent per day and this is a major cyber security threat. In this article, we will get into ...
However, the term "unsolicited messages" is open to debate, and as such what is considered spam varies widely. In the strictest sense, spam is any email advertisement, other than those specifically requested by the receiver. However, even this strict definition is debatable, as very often ...
Spamhaus's anti-spam blocklist, the SBL, used by more than 1 Billion Internet users, is based on the internationally-accepted definition of Spam as "Unsolicited Bulk Email". Therefore anyone sending UBE on the Internet, regardless of whether the content is commercial or not, illegal or...
FREE ANTIVIRUS What is computer spam? What comes to mind when you think of spam? Miracle pills from Internet pharmacies, requests for money from “princes” of other countries, or perhaps the food, Spam? This article is all about spam with a lowercase “s.” While many people enjoy the ...
A spam trap is an email address that's used to identify and monitoremail spam. It's also a type ofhoneypotbecause it uses a fake email address to bait spammers. Internet service providers (ISPs), antispam organizations, blocklist providers and corporations use spam traps to monitor and redu...
Runbox does not provide “Challenge-Response” anti-spam filtering, because it isn’t particularly effective, it misplaces the burden of spam management on the sender (which is often not the spammer due to forged messages), and several other problems. See for instance this article for more info...