Spam Bulletin - January 2007


Editor: Helen Martin

Technical Consultant: John Hawes

Technical Editor: Morton Swimmer

Consulting Editor: Ian Whalley, Nick FitzGerald, Richard Ford, Edward Wilding

2007-01-01


News

Government agencies take anti-phishing action

Spear-phishing awareness training and testing for staff.


UK anti-spam victory for Microsoft

Lawsuit won against UK spammer.


Feature

The TREC 2006 Spam Filter Evaluation Track

The 15th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2006) took place in November 2006. For the second time, TREC included a spam track, whose purpose was to create realistic standardized benchmarks to measure spam filter effectiveness in a laboratory setting. Gordon Cormack reports on the results.

Gordon Cormack - University of Waterloo, Canada

Virus Bulletin

Virus Bulletin - January 2007

Déjà vu all over again (comment); Do the macarena (analysis); The great prepender: W32/Nubys-A (analysis); The real motive behind Stration (feature); From immunology to heuristics (insight); VB2007 Vienna (call for papers); Sophos Enterprise Security (product review)


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