New type of image spam hides in e-mail wallpaper

A new type of image spam found this week is able to bypass many filters by presenting a message as wallpaper within an e-mail, according to the vendor Secure Computing.

Image spam uses text embedded in an image to foil traditional spam filters that catch spam by scanning messages for key words and by using other text-based techniques.

» LinuxWorld - Jon Brodkin - 14-06-2007

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