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 Friday, May 30, 2008
Friday, May 30, 2008 5:54:15 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00) ( Anti-Spam | Spam | Threats )
Here's what's went on this week in the blogosphere in the anti spam world:


Backscatter

Use a service or server based anti spam system. Such systems employ measures that block spam and are hardened to large quantities of spam and will provide some protection from backscatter in and of themselves, however the spam ...


How much longer will anti-spam captchas be useful?

Luis von Ahn, an inventor of the anti-spam tool known as "captchas," talks with Jon Gordon about how much longer the squiggly line challenge-response tools will be useful.


TypePad launches new anti-spam tool for bloggers

TypePad AntiSpam is the product of the antispam technology Six Apart has been using in their TypePad hosted blogs since May 2007. Now the service, which is in beta, is available to anyone, open source, and free -- regardless of how ...


MySpace wins $230 million anti-spam judgment

Just saw this over at namepros, although I don't use myspace but I like to think that spammers (not only the ones spamming myspace) will think twice before doing spamming again Excite News - MySpace wins $230 million anti-spam judgment.


Social Networking Sites Also Popular With Spammers

Popular networking sites have become one of the latest targets in recent spam attacks. Cloudmark, an anti-spam enterprise, revealed that social networking sites have seen a huge rise in spam in the 6 months to March 2008. ...


Enjoy!

- Shaun

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