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Articles tagged with: Spam and Sms Spam
Australian Firm Warned to Stop Sending Spam SMS
..with the Spam Act by SMS marketers has been integral to raising awareness of SMS spam amongst the general public and the business community," said Chris Chapman, ACMA Chairman. In other recent outcomes relating to SMS, ACMA has issued infri more
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Pakistani Operator Blocking Spam SMSs
..Mobilink GSM, has deployed TekelecĂ's TekMedia AntiSpam Firewall Solution to try and block SMS spam messages being sent to its subscribers. "SMS spam is a growing problem around the world and itĂ's directly affecting our customers today," said more
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China Mobile Clamps Down on SMS Spam
..will block marketing SMSs from seven advertising companies following a recent outcry about SMS spam in the country. It was recently claimed that 80% of all SMS spam originated from just the one company, Focus Wireless, a subsidiary of US listed more
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One Company Accused of Sending 80% of Chinese Spam SMS
Some eighty percent of SMS spam in China is sent by just one company reports the Beijing Morning Post citing China Central Television's (CCTV) televised World Consumer Day ceremony. Focus Wireless, a subsidiary of US listed Focus Media has acquired several small companies in preparation for a separate stock listing and the loosely controlled subsidiaries may be responsible for the spam, explained Focus Wireless vice president Ji Hairong. more
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Mobile Operators Brace for Global Surge in Mobile Messaging Abuse
..ing abuse trends in Asia, North America and Europe which point to a precipitous rise in mobile spam, phishing and virus attacks in 2008. In the past year, Cloudmark has worked closely with leading mobile operators across the globe to help them a more
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SMS As Business Tool on the Rise in South Africa
..usiness emails per week - note that most PC's have spam filters installed, while most mobile phones do not.61% of respondents were happy to receive business communications via e-mail, and 50% of respondents were happy to receive business communicatio more
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Enhanced Spam Filtering Could Block Independent Ringtone Suppliers
.. is launching a Spam Control Centre product, which directly addresses a fundamental mobile phone spamming issue, by allowing operators to automatically detect and block all types of unwanted content and harmful SMS and MMS traffic from any foreign ne more
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Ericsson Offers Mobile Antivirus Solution
..icsson Mobile Device Antivirus provides centralized control over antivirus and SMS spam protection for smartphones running Symbian and Microsoft operating systems. It will be available as a separate product, as part of a packaged mobile data solution more
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Jinny Software has launched SMS and MMS spam blocker for operators. The Jinny spam Control Centre offers spam filtering to reduce the occurrence of message spamming and helps maintain the required reputation of an Operators' Network. The Content filtering functionality blocks value added content like pictures and ring-tones from non-network partners and protects the Operators revenues. Operators can also apply key word filters to all network traffic enabling the censorship of messages or the possibility, if required, to track threatening messages. more
Anti-virus experts at Sophos have identified a new Trojan horse which attempts to send spam messages to mobile phone users. The Troj/Delf-HA Trojan horse downloads instructions on which spam campaign to run from a Russian website, and can plague owners of cellphones by sending them unsolicited junk SMS text messages. more
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