Image spam returns
At Computerworld, Gregg Keizer writes:
Spammers have turned back the clock and are recycling a years-old tactic by planting their messages in images, a security researcher warned today.
Image spam, which hit a peak in late 2006 and early 2007, has made a comeback, said Holly Stewart, the threat response manager of IBM Internet Security System’s X-Force team. After barely registering during most of 2008, image-based spam accounted for about 25% of all spam by the end of last month.
To combat image spam and for other security reasons, configure your email software to block images. If you need to allow images for a particular email, that is easy to do for most email readers.
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