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The Silent Killer: How Spammers are Stealing Your Email Directory

Overview Conventional appliance-based and software-based anti-spam solutions operating inside the email gateway can’t prevent directory harvest attacks or their devastating impact on your email system and users. Difficult to detect, these attacks go unnoticed by most email administrators – and older content filtering solutions are not effective in stopping them. In this paper find out how spammers are probing your email system in an attempt to identify and "harvest" legitimate email addresses from your organization and learn how you can protect your organization against the "silent killer" - directory harvest attacks.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Postini	File Format	PDF
Date Published	August 2005	Downloads	11
Format	White Papers
Topics	Anti-Virus, Spam and E-mail Marketing, Network Security

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