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The German courts may have just opened the floodgates. Their top criminal court ruled this week that home wireless users can be held responsible for not password-protecting their wireless connections. If the unprotected connection is used for illegal file downloads, the owner can be fined up to 100 Euros (currently $126). The ruling came aboutRead more

Maybe you wanted to promote something, contact friends or relatives you never really emailed before (at least with a normal email), send a chain letter that promised success and money or to promote a garage sale using your local hockey team email list?  Maybe you sent a message for your business using a large contactRead more

What is deep header inspection? Some anti-spam tools will actually look at the reputation of IP addresses in each of the received headers of an email.  Reputation mechanisms usually involve multiple sources, e.g., DNSBLs and Honeypot-driven reputation services. Here’s a sample header: Delivered-To: address@gmail.com Received: by 1.1.1.1 with SMTP id e5cs33412ibd; Fri, 16 Apr 2010Read more

Maybe you’ve seen more spam hitting your Inbox over the past couple of months and wondering, ‘Why am I paying for filtering? This stuff is obviously spam why can’t you guys stop it?’ The main challenges of being in the spam filtering business are dealing with clients’ expectations on the one hand, and the sheerRead more

Do you know what this is? Of course you do! This, along with some other strange stuff, has gained popularity and become part of our virtual life when browsing the web. CAPTCHAs (as they’re known) are one example of a ‘Turing test’: a challenge-response criteria that is used to determine the probability that a remoteRead more