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Wireless Spam

ALSO CALLED: Pager Spam, Cell-phone Spam, Push Messaging, Mobile Phone Spam, Cell Phone Spam, SMS Spam, Mobile Spam, and Cellphone Spam
DEFINITION: Drive-by spamming is a variation of drive-by hacking in which the perpetrators gain access to a vulnerable wireless local area network (WLAN) and use that access to send huge volumes of spam. Using the drive-by method allows spammers to save themselves the considerable bandwidth  … 
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Machine Learning to Beat Spam Today...and Tomorrow
sponsored by Proofpoint, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how Proofpoint MLX evolves to counter emerging threats, ensuring that the corporate infrastructure is secure against today's spammers as well as tommorrow's.
Posted: 02 Jan 2009 | Published: 31 Dec 2008
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McAfee Initiative to Fight Cybercrime
sponsored by McAfee, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Fighting Cybercrime requires a three-pronged approach: technology & innovation, education, and legal frameworks.
Posted: 15 Dec 2008 | Published: 15 Dec 2008
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Block Evolving Spam, Secure Your Network
sponsored by MessageLabs
WHITE PAPER: Read this whitepaper for valuable insights into the most prominent spamming techniques used during 2008, as well as why stopping these threats at the internet layer via a managed service is the only way to combat new evolving spam attacks.
Posted: 04 Dec 2008 | Published: 04 Dec 2008
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Institutional Identity Theft: How the Identity Theft of Your Customers Leads to the Erosion of Your Company's Profits and Good Name
sponsored by Perimeter eSecurity
WHITE PAPER: Read this whitepaper for a look at the real losses sustained by organizations whose customers experience identity theft and best policies, procedures, and solutions to reduce your organizations risk.
Posted: 04 Dec 2008 | Published: 04 Dec 2008
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Should You Install Messaging Security Software on Your Exchange Server?
sponsored by Sunbelt Software
WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the pros and cons of installing third-party software on the Exchange Server, and information on Sunbelt Software's Ninja Email Security.
Posted: 24 Nov 2008 | Published: 06 Aug 2008
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Comparing Email Management Systems that Protect Against Spam, Viruses, Malware & Phishing Attacks
sponsored by Sunbelt Software
WHITE PAPER: In this whitepaper, Sunbelt Software engaged Osterman Research to survey organizations that are using five different email management systems in order to understand different perceptions about various email management systems.
Posted: 24 Nov 2008 | Published: 06 Aug 2008
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Total E-mail Security
sponsored by Sunbelt Software
WHITE PAPER: Malware is becoming ever more sophisticated every day. Only through effective tools that incorporate fast responses against all categories of malware will organizations be able to maintain the health of their critical business systems.
Posted: 11 Nov 2008 | Published: 11 Nov 2008
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Email as Part of a Business Continuity Strategy
sponsored by Mimecast
WHITE PAPER: This white paper is targeted to those wanting to eliminate email downtime and keep employees productive with access to email during any circumstances.
Posted: 10 Oct 2008 | Published: 10 Oct 2008
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Stopping Online Spam before It Can Impact Your Business
sponsored by Azaleos Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines the many threats, challenges, and risks businesses experience from online spam, It also presents the advantages of Azaleos ProtectXchange e-mail security services and how they can be deployed.
Posted: 19 Sep 2008 | Published: 19 Sep 2008
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Global Best Practices in Email Security, Privacy and Compliance
sponsored by Proofpoint, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: A new generation of email security solutions is needed to meet the challenges of growing message traffic, rapidly-evolving security threats and increasingly complex data protection and privacy regulations. This paper examines such a solution.
Posted: 06 Aug 2008 | Published: 06 Aug 2008
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Oracle Database Security: Preventing Enterprise Data Leaks at the Source
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the growing internal threats to business information, the impact of government regulations on the protection of data and how enterprises must adopt database security best practices to prevent sensitive customer data.
Posted: 15 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Feb 2008
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Regulations Shift Focus on Outbound Email Security
sponsored by Proofpoint, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Outbound email and other electronic communications pose a significant risk for data loss or leakage. This white paper will examine the new email security and compliance challenges and ways to address them.
Posted: 10 Jul 2008 | Published: 10 Jul 2008
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Effectively Securing Your Network
sponsored by CDW Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This white paper shows you how to effectively protect your company's network perimeter from threats like spam, malware, bots, viruses and other attacks.
Posted: 20 Mar 2008 | Published: 20 Mar 2008
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22 Things a Domino Administrator Needs to Know About Spam - An Interview with a Spammer
sponsored by MayFlower Software
WHITE PAPER: Spam has become more than just clutter in the inbox; it's now the leading way to facilitate computer crimes. In this eGuide, read the answers to over 20 questions SearchDomino.com members asked a reformed spammer.
Posted: 09 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2007
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Filtering Technologies in Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam™ 6.0
sponsored by Symantec Corporation
WHITE PAPER: A spammer's chief obsession is evading antispam filters. Spammers are escalating the battle with new filter evasion and dissemination techniques.
Posted: 20 Feb 2005 | Published: 30 Aug 2004
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WIRELESS SPAM DEFINITION (continued): …  costs required to send that many messages legitimately, and makes it very difficult for anyone to trace the spam back to its source.

A drive-by spamming incident starts with war driving: driving around seeking insecure networks, using a computer equipped with a wireless Ethernet card and some kind of an antenna. A wireless LAN's range often extends beyond the building housing it, and the network may broadcast identifying information that makes access simple. … 
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