Thursday, March 1, 2007

Here comes image spam. Here comes image spam. Image spam--e-mail solicitations that use graphical images of text--is not new. But its rising sophistication has made much of it invisible to spam filters so that it makes up one-third of all spam, according to Doug Bowers, director of antiabuse engineering at Symantec. E-mail traffic--83 percent of which was spam--rose in 2006, according to antispam company BorderWare, and researchers there expect image spam to grow. [CSO Online Data Security Briefing] 7:24:29 PM

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