| Spammers' new MP3 trick may be short-lived
Securities and Exchange Commission and said his company has nothing to do with the spam run. “I am very distraught by this," Dion said. Dion said only about 100 shares have been traded so far, so the scam hasn't been successful. The messages are more annoying than harmful. But there are a variety of defenses e-mail administrators and security companies can employ to stop it, Graham-Cumming said. Spam filters can be configured to cull messages with MP3s, since most companies don't have a business use for the file type, Graham-Cumming said. Administrators can also change their e-mail server settings to slow down the speed at which they receive messages with MP3 attachments, he said. That method has been proven to frustrate spammers, who typically shut down the connection if the spam isn't going through quickly enough since the delay consumes valuable bandwidth, Graham-Cumming said.
Antispam group targets transactions, not messages
"E-mail and the spammers are the least interesting part of the problem. We want to stop the transaction, to take down those platforms" from which consumers are buying fake luxury items and phony drugs -- or worse yet, having their identity stolen, says Garth Bruen, the son in this two-man operation, who is based in Boston. The organization runs a Web site with 2,000 registered members and roughly 2,000 unregistered, casual users, the younger Bruen says. These users report spam to KnujOn by forwarding unwanted messages to e-mail accounts run by the group, which then compiles information about the Web sites that the URL embedded in spam points to. By collecting and analyzing this information – to date the group has received 3 million to 4 million spam messages – Bruen says he can go after illicit sites where the crimes are being committed.
SECNAP Network Security Solution Protects South Florida School
BOCA RATON, Fla., Dec. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- The King's Academy, a private school in West Palm Beach, recently partnered with SECNAP(R) Network Security to stop spam throughout the school's internal network. "We were experiencing a spam problem, and needed a better alternative to reduce the incidence of unwanted emails and spam," said Rob Danley, Director of Information Technology at The King's Academy. "During our research, SpammerTrap was recommended to us, and we were really impressed when we checked it out." SpammerTrap is an anti-spam software solution created by SECNAP Network Security. It employs a combination of email firewall, auto-learning anti-spam system, and built-in enterprise-level anti-virus filter to effectively block spam and malware. The King's Academy is responsible for the physical safety and cyber security of more than 1,400 students.
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