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What is an email bomb? An email bomb is the act of sending copious amounts of e-mail in an attempt to overflow a mailbox or crash the mail server.  It can also be used to describe an e-mail message with an attached ZIP file that contains another ZIP file, which contains yet another ZIP, andRead more

The US Open tennis tournament is done, the kids are back in school, hurricanes are racing up the eastern U.S. coastline, you have already expended the positive benefit from your recent vacation and Walmart has put out the Halloween stuff: good grief, summer must be over! Looking back at some of the major events andRead more

My last article was on stopping and getting rid of Comment and Registration spam on WordPress. Today, I’d like to cover another Social Spam topic: Twitter. You can bet all social networks are a target, and Twitter is no different. Here are a couple tips to minimize and get rid of the Twitter spam suchRead more

There have been some excellent blog posts about how ‘One size does _not_ fit all’ with spam, including this one by Paul Cunningham. Your anti-spam solution should not only be able to adapt to the most common spam and malware out there, it should also be adaptable enough to protect you from the very specificRead more

The hot topic of the past few years certainly has been Social Networking and the Web 2.0! So, you started a blog on your own domain, have spent a lot of time writing relevant quality content, performing SEO, integrating into social networks to distribute your news. Now, your site is starting to get decent exposureRead more