Spam Bulletin - February 2008


Editor: Helen Martin

Technical Consultant: John Hawes

Technical Editor: Morton Swimmer

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

2008-02-01


News

No taste for spam?

ICANN takes steps to combat domain tasting.


Spammers and scammers in court

Spammers required to pay $200,000; 419 scammers face prison sentence.


Mortgage spam rockets

Spammers take note of US interest rate cuts.


Feature

Predictions about the prediction scam

The prediction scam has yet to make it into electronic format. A group of researchers from the University of Calgary get ahead of the game and explain how they believe it will work.

Sampson Pun - University of Calgary, Canada, Eric Parsons - University of Calgary, Canada, Margaret Nielsen - University of Calgary, Canada, David Ma - University of Calgary, Canada & John Aycock - University of Calgary, Canada

Calendar

Anti-spam industry events

Must-attend events in the anti-spam industry - dates, locations and further details.


Virus Bulletin

Virus Bulletin - February 2008

Malware vs. anti-malware: (how) can we all survive? (comment); Crimea river (virus analysis); How to disable WFP using physical disk information (virus analysis); Assessment war: Windows services (feature); VB2008 Ottawa (call for papers); Windows Server 2003 (comparative review)


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