Note
Access to this page requires authorization. You can try signing in or changing directories.
Access to this page requires authorization. You can try changing directories.
Discussing Internet security in (mostly) plain English
Safety first! Right?
I've been checking around some other anti-spam solutions and one of the selling points that they...
Author: tzink Date: 05/07/2007
Virus outbreak: April 30 - May 2
Just a note to all my readers out there, in the past three days (April 30 - May 2) we are seeing a...
Author: tzink Date: 05/03/2007
EU Spam Symposium: Vienna
The European Spam Symposium is coming up this year in three weeks on the 24th and 25th of May, being...
Author: tzink Date: 05/03/2007
Becoming the best: Measure everything
I was reading some of my other trading blogs and I came across a post over at TraderDNA that...
Author: tzink Date: 05/01/2007
Pre-emptive filtering
An idea that has been floating around in my head for several months is the idea of using probability...
Author: tzink Date: 04/27/2007
Note to MessageLabs... a little help?
This post is for any of my MessageLabs readers. I tried to send an email to my travel company today...
Author: tzink Date: 04/25/2007
What constitutes a good sender?
Lately, I have tasked myself with the enormous challenge of the automation (or partially automation)...
Author: tzink Date: 04/18/2007
Strange new spam
There's a new spam going round that we started seeing last Friday. The subject line consists of a...
Author: tzink Date: 04/16/2007
Buy stuff from Apple
Before being bought out by Microsoft, a lot of my co-workers bought stuff from Apple (mostly mac...
Author: tzink Date: 04/13/2007
Can a computer fight spam better than a human, part II
Leaving aside the question of email authentication for the time being, is it possible for a computer...
Author: tzink Date: 04/12/2007
Can a computer fight spam better than a human?
In this blog, I sometimes try to point out the similarities between stock trading and spam...
Author: tzink Date: 04/09/2007
Can spam be used as a leading stock market indicator?
I was going over some of my stock charts last night when I thought to myself "Could the amount of...
Author: tzink Date: 04/04/2007
The top anti-spam blogs
I read a few other anti-spam blogs. There really are some good ones out there so I thought I'd share...
Author: tzink Date: 04/01/2007
Using my Mac to write posts on this blog
I was unable to find compatible blogging software for my Mac to post on my MSDN blog (ie, this...
Author: tzink Date: 03/30/2007
How to hack weak passwords
I was doing my daily stock market research when I happened to come across this article on the...
Author: tzink Date: 03/30/2007
The cost of in-house vs hosted services
I was reading in another blog post about the cost of doing a messaging service in-house vs farming...
Author: tzink Date: 03/27/2007
Spammers going to sleep?
I'm taking a timeout from recollecting my memoirs of my trip to Spamatopia to examine the current...
Author: tzink Date: 03/22/2007
A trip to Spamatopia - Part 3
As I was saying in my previous post, after my sojourn in Virus Valley during my stopover in...
Author: tzink Date: 03/18/2007
Bordering on the ridiculous, but it's still kind of fun
One of the things I do here at work is write a bi-weekly (ahem) newsletter summarizing what is going...
Author: tzink Date: 03/07/2007
Thursday, March 1 - is anyone out there?
This past Thursday (March 1, 2007) seems to be a bit of an anomaly. I say this because overall...
Author: tzink Date: 03/02/2007
Upcoming webcast on Hosted Services
In case anyone is interested, on Thursday, March 8 there is going to be a webcast entitled Messaging...
Author: tzink Date: 02/28/2007
Cool Pepsi commercial
A reader sent me this link, it's a video of a new Pepsi commercial where they turn the city of San...
Author: tzink Date: 02/28/2007
Small time anti-spam company to a big time one
One of the challenges of going from a small anti-spam company (like Frontbridge) to a big one (like...
Author: tzink Date: 02/23/2007
The Jademaster
This is a story I adapted from The New Market Wizards, by Jack Schwager. One cold winter morning a...
Author: tzink Date: 02/21/2007
How long does the average spam outbreak last?
Ever since July, I have noticed that when spam outbreaks occur, they last for a couple of days and...
Author: tzink Date: 02/20/2007
Anti-spam blogging slowly down as of late
It has not escaped my notice that my anti-spam blogging has slowed down over the past two weeks, as...
Author: tzink Date: 02/14/2007
Spammers flipping around types of images
During the past week, I haven't blogged very much. The reason is that I have been busy doing a...
Author: tzink Date: 02/12/2007
Interview with the spampire
I had to modify the contents of this post. Move along, move along.
Author: tzink Date: 02/07/2007
The Merits and Hazards of Two-Point Filtering
In my previous post, I defined Two-Point Filtering as the process of using an end-user feedback loop...
Author: tzink Date: 01/30/2007
Two-Point Filtering
According to Wikipedia, Web 2.0 is a phrase coined by O'Reilly Media in 2004, and refers to a...
Author: tzink Date: 01/29/2007
New Year's Resolution Update - Learning Unix better
Earlier this month I made a New Year's Resolution, that I'm going to learn to use unix a little bit...
Author: tzink Date: 01/26/2007
Sometimes you have to trust my Jedi instincts
One of the things that annoys me a little bit about the Microsoft revolution is the desire for...
Author: tzink Date: 01/24/2007
New type of spam - Blogspot
This morning I ran across a new type of spam; spammers are creating blogspot accounts and when you...
Author: tzink Date: 01/23/2007
Spammers quick on the draw
One of the techniques that spammers use is to borrow a headline from the news and use it as a...
Author: tzink Date: 01/22/2007
IronPort's Virus Threat Level
I was just checking out IronPort's virus threat level available on their web page, and the three...
Author: tzink Date: 01/20/2007
Phishing and spam - similar correlations
I went to the anti-phishing working group web page and they have a nice bar chart on the number of...
Author: tzink Date: 01/19/2007
What percentage of network traffic comes from botnets?
I was recently asked what percentage of our network traffic can be attributed to botnets and if 60%...
Author: tzink Date: 01/17/2007
Are there any anti-spam conferences coming up?
I was reading an article by Neil Schwartzman, brought to my attention by John R. Levine on the...
Author: tzink Date: 01/15/2007
More on daily trends
In my previous post, I noted the number of times volume on a specific day of the week exceeded the...
Author: tzink Date: 01/12/2007
Daily spam trends - is there a pattern?
A couple of months ago, I posted on daily historical spam trends wherein I examined whether or not...
Author: tzink Date: 01/12/2007
Spam level hits 94%... but you heard it here first
I see on Spamroll that they came across an article on techweb that lets us know that spam hit 94% of...
Author: tzink Date: 01/12/2007
Top Ten Ways to Eliminate Spam from Your Inbox
I came across the article from ITsecurity, The Top Ten Ways to Eliminate Spam from Your Inbox. I...
Author: tzink Date: 01/11/2007
The case for outsourced message management
I was recently asked to review this whitepaper that argues that building your messaging system costs...
Author: tzink Date: 01/10/2007