Spam is back!!!
December 2006
Spam doubles, finding new ways to deliver itself.
Spam is back __ in e_mail in_boxes and on everyone's minds. In the last six months, the problem has gotten measurably worse. Worldwide spam volumes have doubled from last year, according to IronPort Systems, a spam_filtering firm, and unsolicited junk mail now accounts for more than nine of every 10 e_mail messages sent over the Internet. Much of that flood is made up of a nettlesome new breed of junk e_mail called image spam, in which the words of the advertisement are part of a picture, often fooling traditional spam detectors that look for telltale phrases. Image spam increased fourfold from last year and now represents 25 percent to 45 percent of all junk e_mail, depending on the day, IronPort says. Antispam firms spotted the skyrocketing amount of image spam this summer. The filtering companies adopted an approach called optical character recognition, which scans the images in an e_mail and tries to recognize any letters or words. Spammers responded in turn by littering their images with speckles, polka dots and background bouquets of color, which mean nothing to human eyes but trip up the computer scanners.
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/06/technology/06spam.html?
Spam doubles, finding new ways to deliver itself.
Spam is back __ in e_mail in_boxes and on everyone's minds. In the last six months, the problem has gotten measurably worse. Worldwide spam volumes have doubled from last year, according to IronPort Systems, a spam_filtering firm, and unsolicited junk mail now accounts for more than nine of every 10 e_mail messages sent over the Internet. Much of that flood is made up of a nettlesome new breed of junk e_mail called image spam, in which the words of the advertisement are part of a picture, often fooling traditional spam detectors that look for telltale phrases. Image spam increased fourfold from last year and now represents 25 percent to 45 percent of all junk e_mail, depending on the day, IronPort says. Antispam firms spotted the skyrocketing amount of image spam this summer. The filtering companies adopted an approach called optical character recognition, which scans the images in an e_mail and tries to recognize any letters or words. Spammers responded in turn by littering their images with speckles, polka dots and background bouquets of color, which mean nothing to human eyes but trip up the computer scanners.
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/06/technology/06spam.html?
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