On May 22nd, 2021 with 41 comments
"The official Python software package repository, PyPI, is getting flooded with spam packages..." Bleeping Computer reported Thursday.
"Each of these...
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On January 13th, 2018 with 84 comments
There was some trouble last weekend at the world's largest package repository. An anonymous reader quotes the official npm blog:
On Saturday, January 6, 2018,...
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On February 2nd, 2008 with 25 comments
An anonymous reader writes "Spam filtering solutions are a necessary evil in today's e-mail climate. There are many different tools and systems available for...
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On January 1st, 2007 with 177 comments
rangeva writes to tell us about a twist he has developed on the common Captcha technique to discourage spam bots:
HECs encode the Captcha image into HTML, thus...
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On November 10th, 2004 with 324 comments
Shell writes "If they want to send spam, make them pay a price. Built on the widely available SHA-1 algorithm, hashcash is a clever system that requires a...
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On October 17th, 2004 with 157 comments
Nuclear Elephant writes "After four months of development DSPAM v3.2 has been released, bringing many new enhancements and filtering technologies. These...
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On October 6th, 2004 with 44 comments
CypherXero writes "I recently had to deal with a bunch of unwelcomed trolls to my blog, and it became my number one priority to stop it before it got out of...
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On September 23rd, 2004 with 20 comments
Nuclear Elephant writes "After three months of development, the first public beta of DSPAM v3.2 has been released for testing. New features include SQLite...
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On September 22nd, 2004 with 11 comments
Daniel Goldman writes "According to this post, from Ted Hardie Co-Area Director for Applications, the IETF will be closing the MARID Working Group. This...
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On July 11th, 2004 with 197 comments
jarhead4067 writes "Article snippet: "Up until recently, most researchers in the fight against spam have failed to classify it as an artificial living...
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On June 25th, 2004 with 343 comments
esj at harvee writes "Recently the Camram project released its latest version of a hybrid sender-pays anti-spam system. The project has proven that...
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On June 22nd, 2004 with 330 comments
Simon Lyall writes "A new study of antispam software shows that Spamassassin performed well in various configurations along with Spamprobe , Bogofilter and...
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On April 20th, 2004 with 42 comments
An anonymous reader submits "According to a recent mailing list post by Harry Katz who is the Program Manager of Exchange at Microsoft, they plan to submit...
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On March 23rd, 2004 with 472 comments
steve.m writes "The BBC are reporting on a new batch of top level domain names being submitted to ICANN for approval. By far the most interesting proposal is...
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On December 16th, 2003 with 105 comments
Eric S. Smith writes "SPF, previously mentioned here, is a step closer to becoming a real, live RFC. We are encouraged to publish SPF records and thus to...
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On November 12th, 2003 with 56 comments
Chirag Mehta writes "I just released a freeware service called BotBlock (barebones demo) that lets site owners copy/paste a few lines of PHP code and insert a...
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On September 24th, 2003 with 30 comments
Jacco de Leeuw writes "I was checking the website of anti-virus vendor Sophos when I noticed a press release: "
Sophos Acquires Anti-Spam Specialist...
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On September 3rd, 2003 with 21 comments
Ace Suares writes "David Harris, maker of the free e-mail software Pegasus Mail, has written a white paper on spam as part of 'an active initiative to bring...
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On July 23rd, 2003 with 321 comments
Aneusomy writes "From Activestate: 'Compiled by Dr. John Graham-Cumming, a leading anti-spam researcher and member of the ActiveState Anti-Spam Task Force, the...
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