{"id":20,"date":"2010-03-08T02:25:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T07:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonpr.com\/?p=20"},"modified":"2010-03-27T21:53:59","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T02:53:59","slug":"techrepublic-the-unwelcome-return-of-image-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wilsonpr.com\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":"TechRepublic: The unwelcome return of image spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brien Voorhees, co-founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redcondor.com\" target=\"_blank\">Red Condor<\/a>, was recently interviewed by Michael Kassner from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\" target=\"_blank\">TechRepublic<\/a> about image spam.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.redcondor.com\/resources\/whitepapers\/image-based-spam-100107.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Image spam<\/a> has been around for many years, having  spurts of popularity when spam filters get good at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redcondor.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium  wp-image-8\" title=\"RedCondor logo red (sm)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wilsonpr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/RedCondor-logo-red-sm-300x101.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"101\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonpr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/RedCondor-logo-red-sm-300x101.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wilsonpr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/RedCondor-logo-red-sm.jpg 535w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>detecting normal  types of spam. Each resurgence has seen image spam increase in  sophistication. To try and understand image spam, I started talking to  the people at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redcondor.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Red  Condor<\/a>, a well-known spam filtering service. Brien Voorhees, one of the founders of Red Condor was kind enough to  answer my numerous questions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.techrepublic.com.com\/security\/?p=3248&amp;tag=content;col1\" target=\"_blank\">TechRepublic.com<\/a> to read the entire interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brien Voorhees, co-founder of Red Condor, was recently interviewed by Michael Kassner from TechRepublic about image spam. &#8220;Image spam has been around for many years, having spurts of popularity when spam filters get good at detecting normal types of spam. Each resurgence has seen image spam increase in sophistication. To try and understand image spam, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonpr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonpr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonpr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonpr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonpr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonpr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonpr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonpr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonpr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonpr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}