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Monday, September 14, 2009

Bouncing spam rises by 2000 percent

When you send an email to an address that doesn’t exist or to a server that is having trouble delivering it, you get a Non-Delivery Report back. Spammers have been exploiting these bounce messages for a while now, as a way to get around spam-filtering measures. However, last month saw NDR spam hit an all time high with 20% of all spam messages using the trick.
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Co-founder of IT Security Thing Ltd, Davey Winder is a three time winner of the Information Security Journalist of the Year award (2006/2008/2010) and received the prestigious Enigma Award for his lifetime contribution to information security journalism in 2011.



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