“Excel is a natural progression after the recent spate of PDF spam, which itself is a natural development from basic image spam”
July 23, 2007 — Pump-and-dump stock scammers have begun using Microsoft Excel spreadsheets to deliver their get-rich-quick schemes, another in a series of moves they’ve made trying to slip past anti-spam … via ComputerWorld
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I started tracking some statistics on pdf spam this weekend. The following numbers will seem a little inflated (since spam performance metrics always appears better on weekends) but they are still interesting. Of all the messages with PDF attachments that we scanned this weekend, 85% of them were messages that contained nothing in the subject line. Also, of all the PDF attachment messages, 75% of them had SPF None in the SPF check. 5% had SPF Neutral, 5% had an SPF Hard Fail and 11% had an SPF Soft Fail. Less than 1% passed an SPF check, I’m betting those are legitimate. I’m in a bit of a quandary about how to handle mail that is not authenticated. Most domains don’t use any type of authentication, but it would be much easier to reject mail from domains that didn’t do it if they contained suspicious content (such as a PDF attachment). The thing about non-authenticated mail is that while technically we can’t make a judgement one way or the other about it, we can use sending history of mail that is not authenticated combined with other characteristics to get a reasonable guess that mail from the IP is probably spam.
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“Yes, it’s from me. It’s a picture of the new prototype.”
According to IDC, a technology research firm, it seems that spam is expected to outpace legitimate e-mail in 2007. via Fort Collins Coloradoan
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Foiled by increasingly accurate corporate spam filters, spammers have dumped pictures for PDFs in their bulk emailings, according to the latest data from security firms.
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Just weeks after we started getting PDF spam, this morning I received my very first DOC spam. The document spam talks about the usual “I am Barrister Musa Adams a Solicitor. I am the Personal Attorney to MR. Harry Edward Cook a national of your country, who used to work with CADBURY NIGERIA LIMITED, on […]
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In my last column , I spoke of how we could kill e-mail, or the “killer app,” by failing to solve the spam problem or finding the right balance between e-mail security and legitimate use. via DM News
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Cat-and-mouseFoiled by increasingly accurate corporate spam filters, spammers have dumped pictures for PDFs in their bulk emailings, according to the latest data from security firms.Original post by Dougal and software by Elliott Back
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Source: Computer World Sophos today released its global statistics naming and shaming the Dirty Dozen spam relaying countries with the United States and China sharing the number one position from April to June … via Hackinthebox.org
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Why didn’t my e-mail go through? That’s what a lot of Zoomtown and Fuse customers have been asking me in recent days. via WCPO-TV9 Cincinnati
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