Image spam doubles spam file size.(Security News and Products)

Database and Network Journal;  April 1, 2007 ;     320 words ......attributes the enlargement of file size to the noticeable rise in image spam in recent months and warns...comments SoftScan. The growth in file size combined with the increasing...bandwidth are affected. Email file size is going to become a...fool scanning techniques. ...

mcafee inc. helps customers to better understand image spam

Al Bawaba;  May 29, 2007 ;     465 words ......today announced the availability of "Image Spam, the New Email Scourge," a whitepaper designed to explain how image spam has evolved, why it is more difficult...com/us/threat_center/ default.asp. Image spam accounted for up to 50 percent of...

U.S., French Inventors Develop Digital Color Image Processing Method

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 9, 2006 ;     332 words ......losslessly compressing the error diffused image to produce a compressed image having a particular file size, comparing the file size to a maximum file size and if less than the maximum file size, transmitting the digital image to the display; if the...

Beware of new image spam on Internet

The Hindustan Times;  November 18, 2006 ;     295 words ......edition of New Scientist. "The level of image spam has increased dramatically this year...company here. According to estimates, image spam accounted for only 18 percent of unsolicited...researcher at Sophos: "We see a lot of image spam and we know which computers are sending...

BitDefender issues new whitepaper on fighting image spam; Report finds...

M2 Presswire;  March 16, 2007 ;     375 words ......BitDefender issues new whitepaper on fighting image spam; Report finds that new techniques used by spammers lead to an increase in image spam by almost 40 percent(C)1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS...of a new whitepaper entitled Fighting Image Spam. The whitepaper details the sharp ...

Spammers Turn to Images to Fool Filters

AP Online;  June 28, 2006 ;     281 words ......filters. Until last year, the use of image spam has been in decline as anti-spam filters...IronPort has seen a 40 percent increase in image spam sent to so-called "honeypot" accounts...IronPort and CipherTrust both say that image spam now accounts for 15 percent of all spam...

Image spam dramatically reduced for customers.(Security)(Brief article)

Database and Network Journal;  August 1, 2006 ;     340 words ......capabilities that capture 98 percent of image spam--junk email primarily composed of pictures...span immediately. Customers See Drop in Image Spam Vircom customers like WebToolset in Atlanta...ago, our clients aren't calling about image spam, said Jeff Wood, chief executive officer...

Secure Computing Wages War Against Image Spam.

PR Newswire;  October 31, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Research Confirms 200 Percent Jump in Image Spam; Traditional Anti-spam Techniques Ineffective...today announced it is waging war against image spam, where spammers hide messages in image...200-percent increase in the amount of image spam, which today accounts for 30 percent...

Spam levels unlikely to drop anytime soon; SoftScan releases spam and...

M2 Presswire;  June 1, 2007 ;     442 words ......Robert Soloway and claims this month that image spam is on the decrease, SoftScan does not...SoftScan also believes that stories of image spam being replaced by links to picture websites...of the more complex and sophisticated image spam seen today. Although it does perhaps...

Spam expected to rise to 95% of emails

The Press;  January 9, 2007 ;     259 words ......the end of 2007. Much of this will be "image spam", the type which caused the problems...about one in three spam emails was now image spam, double that of six months ago. Thom...Auckland anti-spam specialist SMX, said image spam was "really problematic" for most filters...

Spam and Virus Statistics for November from SoftScan.

M2 Presswire;  December 4, 2006 ;     481 words ......marginally up from last month's 89.07. Image spam, reportedly on the increase, is also...America: 5.36 5 South East Asia: 4.73 Image spam used to just contain straight text on...messages look almost professional. Some image spam might be going through undetected by...

Marshal's TRACE team claims image spam has reached new levels.(Threat...

Telecomworldwire;  January 24, 2007 ;     208 words ......January 2007-Marshal's TRACE team claims image spam has reached new levels(C)1994-2007 M2...solutions provider, has revealed that image spam has reached new levels, representing...present. TRACE said the growing amount of image spam coincides with a fall in the amount of...

Dinosaurs Magazine: Put out to graze after 60m years.(Features)

The Mirror (London, England);  February 26, 2000 ;     507 words ......the way a bird holds its wings. FACT FILE Size: Up to 2.5 metres long Weight: Up to...Europe, China and Southern Africa. FACT FILE Size: Up to 12 metres long Weight: Up to 7...can still be found in the Pacific. FACT FILE Size: Ranged from one centimetre long to the...

BorderWare Delivers Patent-Pending Technology To Defeat Image Spam.

PR Newswire;  November 13, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Analysis technology specifically designed to detect and block image spam. In the last six months, spam rates have tripled and image spam accounts for nearly 35 of overall traffic(1). Image spam is the latest tactic for bypassing current anti-spam technology...

Marshal's TRACE team claims image spam has reached new levels

Internet Business News;  January 24, 2007 ;     198 words ......solutions provider, has revealed that image spam has reached new levels, representing...present. TRACE said the growing amount of image spam coincides with a fall in the amount of...to 96% in 2004. It also confirmed that image spam volumes have increased 175% since 1 September...