Chris Kraft, senior security analyst at Sophos, has worked in the security industry since the mid-1990s. Prior to ActiveState's acquisition by Sophos, Chris was ActiveState's Director of product management for PureMessage. Chris is an expert on security and has contributed to a variety of articles and stories covering the spam, authentication, and security markets. He holds a BA degree in economics from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Co.
Spammers are making money exploiting other people's systems and no one is
immune. This article examines the implications for organizations and for
Linux caused by the spam/virus convergence, and details the level of
protection necessary to minimize organizational impact and risk.
The spammer's goal is simple: to make money by selling to (or defrauding)
e-mail users. But as more and more organizations deploy spam-filtering
solutions, accomplishing this goal has become increasingly complex.
As individual, organizational, community, and governmental efforts to block
spam cut into their revenue, the spammers' response is to innovate and
overwhelm: send more mail, from more locations, with more permutations, using
more tricks.
With their servers and Web sites blocked at every... (more)
Chris Kraft, senior security analyst at Sophos, has worked in the security industry since the mid-1990s. Prior to ActiveState's acquisition by Sophos, Chris was ActiveState's Director of product management for PureMessage. Chris is an expert on security and has contributed to a variety of articles and stories covering the
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