Gmail Shows “Never Send It To Spam” Filter

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Google’s webmailer Gmail has an apparently* new filter function named “Never send it to Spam”. Ticking this should ensure that a certain email – with criteria you define, like by entering your friend’s name in the “From” field – will not be accidentally sorted into the spam folder. It’s a ...

Blogspot.com is number one host for malware

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

New research by IT security and control firm Sophos has identified Blogger (www.blogspot.com) as the leading host for malware. The popular blogging service now accounts for 2 percent of all of the world's malware hosted on the web. Attacks on Blogger involve hackers either setting up malicious blogs on the service, ...

Web Form Spam Alive and Kicking

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

Spammers have never balked at using Web forms as a way of sending out spam messages–anything to expose their wares. Basically they will look for a public Web server that allows them to provide feedback or information to a certain company. These Web forms require them to fill up certain ...

Google Mail has more spam

Monday, July 21st, 2008

Roaring Penguin Software says its research shows that the proportion of email coming from Google Mail accounts that is spam has almost quadrupled, from 7 to 27 per cent. This means that more than one email message in four coming from a Google Mail account was classified as spam, which ...

DNS blacklist for weak SSL keys

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Working closely with the German hosting company – manitu, heise is making available with immediate effect a realtime DNS-based blacklist service for identifying weak SSL keys. The provider already runs the Realtime Blacklist for the iX spam filter NiX Spam, which enables mail servers to identify and filter spam.The principle ...