An email advertisement in the form of an image in the message rather than text in order to avoid detection as spam. Spam filters typically analyze words in a message, which is relatively fast, but ...

Image spam continues to be a serious problem for service providers, enterprises and others that process e-mail. Image spam continues to be a serious problem for service providers, enterprises and ...

Because image-spam messages tend to be larger than traditional spam, more network and disk use must be devoted to them. This is alarming, but there is no reason to be overly concerned by the ...

Spam, or unsolicited e-mail, is an old Internet nemesis, but spammers have come up with a new twist, and it’s causing corporate and individual users alike e-heartburn. It’s called “image spam,” and it ...

Spammers are increasingly sneaking their messages past e-mail filters by sending their pitches as images rather than text, spam experts say. The images fool some filters because they have no easy way ...

Image spam—e-mail solicitations that use graphical images of text—is not new. But its rising sophistication has made much of it invisible to spam filters so that it makes up one-third of all spam, ...

Available in software, appliance or hosted-service form, the revamped InterScan Messaging Security Suite combines antivirus, antispam, antispyware, antiphishing and heuristics behavior analysis to ...

Spammers have turned back the clock and are recycling a years-old tactic by planting their messages in images, a security researcher warned Wednesday. Image spam, which hit a peak in late 2006 and ...

Security vendors and users agree that image spam is finally on the decline, but at the same time a new kind of spam is emerging that uses an attached PDF file to trick recipients into buying stock in ...

Spammers are nothing if not clever. Realizing that the increased sensitivity threshold of filters was thwarting their attempts, they turned to a different, more elusive, spamming method: image spam.

Image Spam—an e-mail solicitation that uses graphical images of text to avoid filters—is not new. Recently, though, it reached an unprecedented level of sophistication and took off. A year ago, fewer ...

Another theme I want to talk about here on Security Levity is spammer tactics. I’m sure you remember the huge growth in image spam in 2006. At the time, it was typically used in stock kiting (or ...