Guillaume Lovet, Senior Manager at Fortinet’s FortiGuard Global Security Research Team, advises the following ‘Top Five Tips’ to avoid becoming a victim of this potentially devastating attack: 1. Beware of messages with a link inside. 2. If you do detect any such messages, ask yourself if the message you're reading is from ...

Formalization is the process of making explicit the entire deductive structure of an argument / proof, in such a way that a computer could easily* check that it follows. (*: "easily", according to the de Bruijn criterion, means that the proof checker is small. ) Note: "deductive" does not imply ...

There is no silver bullet or single solution to stop or combat spam, phishing and online deception — it takes a combination of innovative technologies, user education, effective and strong enforcement, and collaboration with industry, business, and governments. The Sender ID Framework is an example of a simple yet innovative, ...

Although spammers registered considerable success with image spam (picture, right) the anti-spam software industry had not lost the battle and quickly came out with new counter-measures to stop image spam. Realizing that filters had a problem with images, the answer was to hit spammers at source – ...

We got an ironic first-hand look at how conventional anti-spam products fail when we announced Spam Terrier (see the previous post). Agnitum distributed the news release via newswire and via personal email messages to editorial contacts. A large number of the email messages were either not delivered or blocked as junk ...