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The dark side of whitelisting

Dr Vesselin Bontchev shares his views on whitelisting and why conventional anti-virus scanners will be around for a long time to come.

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Email sender authentication: advantages and shortcomings

Alberto Treviño and Dr J. J. Ekstrom detail the advantages and shortcomings of email sender authentication as an anti-spam technique, explaining why they consider it a useful technique in the fight against spam.

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Lions and tigraas

Peter Ferrie describes TIOS/Tigraa, a virus that runs on Texas Instruments calculators.

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Vilo: a shield in the malware variation battle

Andrew Walenstein (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
Arun Lakhotia (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)

Michael Venable and colleagues explain how program-matching techniques can help in triage, in-depth malware analysis and signature generation.

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Conference report: EU Spam Symposium

Sorin Mustaca provides a roundup of this year's EU Spam Symposium.

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France’s anti-spam database

John Graham-Cumming has the details of France's new national anti-spam service, Signal Spam.

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Product review: Avira Premium Security Suite

John Hawes takes a detailed look at Avira's home-user internet security setup.

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HaTeMaiL email!

Martin Overton explains why he thinks HTML email is inherently bad.

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The wild WildList

'The WildList is more pertinent than ever - particularly given today's threat landscape.' Mary Landesman, About.com.

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The scourge of blog spam

Jessica Baumgart, an active blogger since April 2003, has contributed to a variety of weblogs on at least seven different platforms, helps lead a support group for bloggers, and eagerly deletes spam. In this article she describes the lesser-known,…

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