I had a discussion with Vircom’s CEO about the problems the e-mail security vendor is encountering with spam that contains only an image of an advertisement or other message with little or no ...

This variant on traditional spam, which can evade common anti-spam solutions, is on the rise and causing problems, according to government and industry security experts. Security experts warn agencies ...

We’ve discussed recently the growing problem with image-based spam. Today, we have some interesting findings from Commtouch, an e-mail security vendor regarding this growing problem: * Toward the end ...

Spam sucks. We all know that. There is no better way of putting it -- especially if your company has ever been hit with 10,000 pieces of spam in a single day. It's not too far-fetched a scenario: ...

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 ...

Barracuda Networks Wednesday announced downloads for its e-mail security appliances designed to help fend off the growing nuisance of image spam. Image spam is unwanted e-mail in which text is ...

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 ...

The disruption began Saturday (5am Pacific time, Jan .24) affecting approximately 1.8 billion Gmail users worldwide with widespread email misclassification. Image generated by Google Gemini Gmail’s ...

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 ...