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Websense - Spammers Abusing Microsoft Services

by Marianna Schmudlach Oct 27, 2008 7:53AM PDT

10.27.2008

Spammers' efforts to reach their prospective customers continue today with increased creativity and complexity. From a spammer's perspective, it is a challenge to figure out the ways to defeat security mechanisms that are being used and constantly improved by service providers to combat abuse of their services. This is clearly a long-term battle between service providers and spammers which we have been aware of for quite some time.

More: http://securitylabs.websense.com/content/Blogs/3219.aspx

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