PDF spam back with a vengeance; Spammers employ stripper to crack CAPTCHAs

Antispam News Alert This newsletter is sponsored by Blue Coat Get the latest on Web Acceleration Tools Discover how to significantly improve document delivery times for users that are physically away from your centralized data center. A document that takes 80 minutes to delivery to a user across the globe could be delivered in three minutes with Web acceleration. Learn how your IT organization can benefit from this technology. Listen to this Webcast now. Network World's Anti-spam News Alert, 11/02/07 PDF spam back with a vengeance, 10/31/07: PDF spam, the summertime nuisance that flooded inboxes in early August and then quickly disappeared, is back and worse than ever. Storm worm pulls Halloween hoax, 10/31/07: The latest Storm-backed spam campaign invites e-mail recipients to visit a Halloween-themed Web site where they can download a dancing skeleton. What gets downloaded instead is a version of the Storm malware. Spammers employ stripper to crack CAPTCHAs, 10/31/07: Spammers are using a virtual stripper as bait to dupe people into helping criminals crack codes they need to send more spam or boost the rankings of parasitic Web sites, security researchers said Tuesday. Improve App Performance with Web Acceleration Find out how to improve the delivery of Web applications to geographically dispersed users with Web acceleration tools. Learn, in this webcast, how to shop for these products and the best and worst applications to accelerate. View this Webcast now. Researchers dig for hidden links in spam, 10/31/07: Filtering spam messages is a thankless job for software. Security experts blast New Jersey AG, 10/26/07: Security experts are saying that a well-intentioned effort by the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General to combat phishing may backfire. FTC: More spyware-fighting tools needed, 10/29/07: Organizations and law enforcement agencies fighting spyware are making progress, but new tools in an antispyware bill stalled in the U.S. Congress could improve the efforts, a member of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Monday. Editor's note: Starting Tuesday, Nov, 13, the Unified Communications newsletter will be merged with the Antispam News Alert and will be named the "Unified Communications Alert." Subscribers to the HTML version of this newsletter will notice some enhancements that will provide you with access to more resources relevant to unified communications. You will receive Michael Osterman's analysis of this market, which you will be able to read in its entirety online at NetworkWorld.com, along with links to relevant news headlines of the day. We hope you enjoy the enhancements and we thank you for reading Network World newsletters.

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