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Last Updated: Apr 07, 2003

Spam, no longer just a prank, is a serious threat to security and a real headache for infosec professionals. Find out the latest developments in the war against spam.
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Researcher chews fat on spam and security

(07 Apr 2003)

Paul Judge is the chairman of the Internet Engineering Task Force's new Anti-Spam Research Group. In this one-on-one with SearchSecurity.com, Judge talks about the overwhelming problem spam poses to IT infrastructures, whom should address it in the enterprise and whether spam is an IT security issue.

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NEWS:
>>	Spam filters a hit with hackers, not enterprise IT (SearchCIO.com) 20 Jan 2003
>>	Secure Guardian upgrades spam and intellectual property defenses (Internet Week) 14 Oct 2002
>>	Quick Takes: Anyone for some spam filtering? (SearchSecurity.com) 20 Aug 2002


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