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 ...

Because image-spam messages tend to be larger than traditional spam, more network and disk use must be devoted to them. This is alarming, but there is no reason to be overly concerned by the image ...

There is no hard evidence that PDF spam exposes users to any security risks, claims the company Written by Lynn Tan @ Redhat, Contributor Aug. 16, 2007 at 2:52 a.m. PT ...

Image spam is big. It takes up a lot of bandwidth on its way to where ever it ends up; it takes time to inspect at filters; it takes up lots of storage space, no matter if it’s stored in an ...

Anti-spam vendors are unable to squash the spam because their technology is only detecting a link to a legitimate photo-sharing site. “It can’t be blocked outright,” Alperovitch said.

SEATTLE, Dec. 14, 2021-- RealNetworks ®, a leader in AI-powered digital media software and services, today unveils KONTXT ® for Images to identify and stop scam images sent via text messages.

Following my discussion with Vircom about the problems the e-mail security firm is finding with image-based spam (as reported in last week's newsletter), I spoke with IronPort about the issue.

The once ubiquitous image spam has fallen significantly in recent months, while overall spam levels remain steady, according to Symantec’s study, “The State of Spam: A Monthly Report July 2007 ...

No hard evidence that PDF spam exposes users to security risks, claims the company, which nonetheless recommends user caution. Written by Lynn Tan @ Redhat, Contributor Aug. 15, 2007, 11:34 p.m. PT ...