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In Today’s API World, IT Needs to Assume A Breach and Marketers Need to Be Security Conscious

When Message Systems’ Mike Hillyer (director of solution engineering) and Dave Lewis (CMO) set out to write the recently published white paper Safeguarding Message Streams for Enterprises and Email Service Providers -Technology Principles for Architecting a Secure Messaging Environment the authors quickly realized that they could not write about inbound message streams without talking about outbound message streams, they could not write about marketing without ta

Published November 30, 2011

What's the Harm If I Get What I Pay For? End-to-End Analysis of the Spam Value Chain

by Stephanie Jordan

Have you ever wondered what would happen if you actually responded to an online offer for an herbal supplement or an enhancement drug? As any active emailer knows, there is a relentless tide of spam...

National Internet Safety (and Security?) Month, MAAWG, and Passwords

by Stephanie Jordan

The United States Senate passed a resolution in 2006 stating that June is National Internet Safety Month, the idea is to prompt Internet safety discussions between parents and kids—but why not...

Eye on Messaging

China-U.S. Effort to Fight Spam Previewed at MAAWG General Meeting

by Stephanie Jordan

There are a handful of groups that I always follow closely and one of them is MAAWG (Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group). The organization held its 21st General Meeting Feb. 22–23 in Orlando, FL. At...

We're All Sheriffs in the Land of the Walking Dead: The Botnet Fight

by Michael O’Reirdan -- Chairman; Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG)

“Wake up!” Or so one might want to shout at those enterprise network operators and IT managers who consistently act as if their operations were islands unto themselves. These are the mavericks that...

What Can Users Do to Protect Themselves from Bots?

by Michael O’Reirdan -- Chairman; Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG)

Every day there are news stories about bots and all the harm they cause. Bots are pieces of software, often called malware, which criminals surreptitiously install on computers to inflict harm, such...

Eye on Messaging

Messaging Industry Comes Together Against Common Foes

by Stephanie Jordan

This week Philadelphia hosts two important groups in the messaging industry as the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) and the Online Trust Alliance (OTA) both hold meetings there. MAAWG’...

Eye on Messaging

MAAWG Offers Botnet Guidelines

by Stephanie Jordan

This month our friends at Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) published new best practices to help ISPs deal with bot infections on customer computers. While these guidelines are targeted at...

Malware Outlook: Stormy

by Stephanie Jordan

Last fall saw the takedown of Atrivo/Intercage and McColo Hosting Solutions, two known hosts of botnets. Botnets are the most pervasive method being used today for sending spam campaigns. According...

On Message

Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group General Meeting in January

by Ben Gross

The 9th General Meeting of the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) will be held in San Francisco, California from January 29 through January 31, 2007. January 29 sessions are reserved for...