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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Mirapoint, the secure messaging experts, announced today that the RazorGate email security appliance protects its customers from the rising tide of image-based spam by utilizing ...

Spam volume is up 73% in the last three months, Postini reported, thanks to a one-two-three punch of a huge increase in the number of spam botnets and a major jump in the use of both image- and ...

Spam is again on the rise, led by a flood of junk images that spammers have crafted over the past few months to trick e-mail filters, according to security vendors. Called “image-based” spam, these ...