Available in software, appliance or hosted-service form, the revamped InterScan Messaging Security Suite combines antivirus, antispam, antispyware, antiphishing and heuristics behavior analysis to ...

Spam, or unsolicited e-mail, is an old Internet nemesis, but spammers have come up with a new twist, and it's causing corporate and individual users alike e-heartburn. It's called "image spam," and it ...

Security vendors and researchers are reporting a marked increase in image-based spam, including a couple of new exploits designed to bypass currently available anti-spam applications. Image spam, in ...

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 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, ...

Image spam continues to be a serious problem for service providers, enterprises and others that process e-mail. Image spam continues to be a serious problem for service providers, enterprises and ...

Image Spam—an e-mail solicitation that uses graphical images of text to avoid filters—is not new. Recently, though, it reached an unprecedented level of sophistication and took off. A year ago, fewer ...

Now, spam accounts for three of every four e-mails sent, according to another anti-spam firm, MessageLabs. Image spam is a big part of the resurgence of unwanted e-mail. By using pictures instead of ...

Security vendors and users agree that image spam is finally on the decline, but at the same time a new kind of spam is emerging that uses an attached PDF file to trick recipients into buying stock in ...

So-called “image spam” is on the rise once again — as clever hackers try to sneak by spam screening software that tests messages for spam based on keywords. After declining steadily throughout 2005 — ...

Spammers have turned back the clock and are recycling a years-old tactic by planting their messages in images, a security researcher warned Wednesday. Image spam, which hit a peak in late 2006 and ...

Another theme I want to talk about here on Security Levity is spammer tactics. I’m sure you remember the huge growth in image spam in 2006. At the time, it was typically used in stock kiting (or ...