Virus Bulletin Spam Supplement - May 2009

Editor: Helen Martin

Technical Consultant: John Hawes

Technical Editor: Morton Swimmer

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

2009-05-01

News

Indictment for university spammers

Spammers whose campaign targeted over 2,000 educational institutions face up to ten years imprisonment.

Helen Martin - Virus Bulletin, UK

Feature

Mail authentication with Domain Keys Identified Mail – part two

John Levine discusses the ways in which a DKIM-authenticated domain fits into a mail-handling system, and looks at related technologies that build on DKIM to help recognize good mail senders and deter phishing.

John Levine - Taughannock Networks, USA

Comparative review

Anti-spam comparative review May 2009

After months of consideration, internal and external discussion, trials and retrials, the results of VB's first live anti-spam comparative review are in. Martijn Grooten has the details.

Martijn Grooten - Virus Bulletin, UK

Calendar

Anti-malware industry events

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

Virus Bulletin

Virus Bulletin - May 2009

One man's spam (comment); Anti-unpacker tricks - part six (technical feature); Case study: the TDSS rootkit (feature); Comodo Internet Security (product review)

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