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Thursday, April 16, 2009

The state of spam 2009, Part 3

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The state of spam 2009, Part 3

M. E. Kabay By M. E. Kabay
Cloudmark CTO Jamie de Guerre continues his response to the question of what has changed in the battle against spam in the last year, discussing free content-hosting services, compromised accounts at Webmail providers and new-media spam. Read full story

M. E. Kabay, PhD, CISSP-ISSMP, specializes in security and operations management consulting services. CV online.

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