In 2003, Congress solved the problem of spam email with the CAN-SPAM Act, which authorized Federal Trade Commission lawsuits against chronic spammers.
Apparently, a lot of spam email.
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Fundmentally, this makes spam on IM a much more tractably-solveable problem than spam on email.
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The share of spam in email traffic decreased steadily throughout 2012 to hit a five year low, an unprecedented decrease.
Indeed, it seems counterintuitive to grant greater protection to new, unopened email spam than to purposefully archived emails.
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"It's worse than email spam, because it's hard to stop, " he says.
In November, 70.5% of all email was spam, down from a recent high of 92.2% in August 2010, according to security-software maker Symantec Corp.
Spam filters are now in place on just about every email system, reducing the amount of spam reaching user accounts, both personal and corporate, to a bare minimum.
Spam might show up in my inbox a few times each week, while I need to remember to check several layers of junk mail filters for false positives legitimate email marked as spam by an aggressive filter.
Try counting sometime the number of commercial messages you encounter in just a few minutes of internet surfing or sifting through your email everything from Google ads to banners, flash videos, email blasts, spam that slips through your filter, and e-newsletters you now regret signing up for.
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Further, consider using a disposable email address to prevent spam from clogging up the one you normally use.
Spamhaus is an organisation based in London and Geneva that aims to help email providers filter out spam and other unwanted content.
The newest spam in my box is an email claiming to be from the AICPA. The AICPA (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants) is a real organization with some pretty cool folks.
Social spam is growing as attacks launched via traditional email come-ons appear to be declining.
Through a series of honey pots, email accounts set up to capture spam samples, it is possible to quickly identify the sources of spam, usually infected hosts belonging to consumers with broad band access.
In many ways, access to customer data is what differentiates valued email marketing messages from irrelevant, untargeted spam.
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On the network side IPS is analogous to anti-virus for email and DDoS defense is analogous to anti-spam.
Viruses, spam and all the other evil things that could happen via email are (hopefully) controlled by the security software running at the server level.
Some free email services like Gmail already come equipped with powerful anti-spam and virus filters.
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Just 44% of marketers surveyed believe their organizations were in compliance with the CAN-SPAM act, a law that requires marketers to request permission to send email messages, disclose the messages' source and offer an opt-out function.
The percentage of emails with malicious attachments targeting U.S. email accounts went up at the same rate at which the percentage of spam originating in the U.S. increased (by 13.5 percentage points).
Some users who received the email noticed that some of their tweets had been deleted, while others said spam links had been posted without their knowledge - a typical characteristic of a compromised account.
This classification is typically in the form of requesters asking you to sign up for services, register for events, click to sites, send email or notifications to others, and other actions to pad numbers of registrations or directly spam information.
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