University of Calgary researchers warn that a new wave of spam could be on the way that tricks recipients by looking like
it’s a message sent from their friends' e-mail address.
This sort of spam would bypass even those filters that currently weed out 99% of the bad stuff, says John Aycock, an assistant
professor of computer science.
Spammers are expected to start mining for familiar e-mail addresses via secretly overtaken "zombie" computers and replicating
patterns seen in messages such as common abbreviations, misspellings and signatures.
While the researchers haven't developed an answer to this problem, they are sounding the alert to anti-spam vendors and IT
customers.
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