Porn Spam Down, FDA Scams Up
May 18, 2007
| 11:09 AM
Microsoft online safety expert Craig Spiezle told a Direct Marketing Association conference on Friday that he has witnessed an evolution in the "three V's" -- volume of e-mail, vectors of attack and velocity of change. "It's not just unscrupulous marketers. We're seeing botnets, image-based spam and phishing," he said.
Bulk commercial e-mail containing pornography and sex-related offers has dropped a great deal in 2007, Spiezle said, but scams are on the rise. "We're seeing a tremendous amount of spoofed mail purportedly coming from the FDA," he said. Greater efforts to implement e-mail authentication could help diminish that threat, he added.
Read more about the DMA summit in Technology Daily's PM Edition.
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