Archive for January, 2012
Facebook and Google Team up to Form DMARC: How to Fight email Spam
What's DMARC if not a new super-league of tech companies including Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and ten others to fight email spam? Though the companies compete on many levels, one thing they can agree on is email phishing scams are not excellent for people who use their products (except, of course, the spammers themselves – [...]
Customers And Their ISPs | HemArbeta.se
But there is another level of spam filtering that is actually creating email deliverability a much tricker road to travel if you are using chilly emails and mass mailings to large groups of customers. That is spam filtering at the ISP level.
Bayesian Spam Filters Explained | ÇakırTürk
The spam filtering features in AOL Communicator and AOL 9 are, to be honest, impressive. consider what you will of … The nice folks at Qualcomm have designed an brilliant e-mail client that also has built in Bayesian spam filtering. I've used …
Spam filtering | Kristján's cosmic percolator
For the past montsh this blog has been completely overwhelmed with comment spam. I've finally had a solution installed (Akismet) and cleaned up the thousands of pending comments. I'll be able to contribute stuff again!
TV junk-food ads do boost kids' appetites: Study
A study from the University of Liverpool found that a DVD featuring commercials for quick food and junk food seemed to whet children’s appetites for sweet and high-fat fare.
Spam filtering | Kristján's cosmic percolator
For the past montsh this blog has been completely overwhelmed with comment spam. I've finally had a solution installed (Akismet) and cleaned up the thousands of pending comments. I'll be able to contribute stuff again!
Space-junk collection has loads to teach scientists
The Center for Orbital and Re-entry Debris Studies provides technical advice to the military, NASA and other customers about space junk: how it affects satellites in orbit, what hazards it poses when it re-enters the atmosphere, when it might crash to Earth.
McAfee Patches Spam Relay Flaw in SaaS Total Protection Service
McAfee has fixed issues in its Total Protection service that allowed attackers to take over computers to send out spam. A bug in McAfee's hosted anti-malware service was being exploited by spammers to turn computers into a spam proxy to send out large volumes of spam, David Marcus, director of security research at McAfee Labs [...]
CanIt 8.0.12 adds Monitoring for Unexpected Errors
New feature detects configuration problemsOTTAWA , Jan. 26, 2012 /CNW/ – Roaring Penguin Software Inc., the email filtering experts, makers of the acclaimed CanIt-PRO, CanIt-Domain-PRO, CanIt Archiver …
Many mobile workers burdened by e-mail
There was a time, not all that long ago, when many in the job force looked on the advent of email and cell phones as a source of liberation.
