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Russia overtakes China as king of malware producers
News Russia is also known as a hotbed for junk email, known as spam. Russia has passed China to become the largest generator of spyware and other malicious code, according to a report set to be released tomorrow. [21 Feb 2008]
Email Defense Requirements: For Small and Medium-Sized Businesses
White Paper Industry data shows that SMBs receive a disproportionate amount of spam, with each SMB user logging more junk email than employees in larger enterprises. Email threats? spam, worms and viruses, and coordinated email attacks? [19 Feb 2008]
Revisiting and Reinventing Email
White Paper Spam is unsolicited junk mail sent to mail server. X-Spam for Exchange 2000-2003 (X-Spam) is a highly adaptive Anti-Spam Software that protects the Microsoft Exchange 2000-2003 servers from Spam. X-Spam uses advanced regular expressions and meta... [19 Feb 2008]
Spammers switching on to YouTube?
News Mark Sunner, chief security analyst for MessageLabs, said: "The MP3 spam tactic is a natural progression for cyber criminals following runs of image, PDF and Excel junk mail earlier this year. Email security company MessageLabs has warned that... [30 Oct 2007]
Sophos Case Study: RE/MAX Allegiance
White Paper The company has installed Sophos PureMessage at the email gateway and runs Sophos Anti-Virus on its endpoint computers, blocking malware at all points, keeping inboxes free of junk mail, and improving the productivity of users and IT staff. [11 Jul 2007]
Junked: Is this the end of spam and spoof email?
News It's called DomainKeys Identified Mail, and it promises to give internet users the best chance so far of staunching the seemingly endless flow of fraudulent junk email. Also, it does not do anything to flag junk email sent by a legitimate company... [23 May 2007]
4 Essential Considerations for Intelligent Email Archiving
White Paper Business, Personal, Junk, etc). Coping with the massive growth in email and other information has pushed the budgetary limits for IT. IT managers are struggling to effectively store, manage and discovery information. [23 May 2007]
Freecycle Diaries: Am I falling out of love?
Comment In short: it's basically junk. I have just such a box that I no longer need, so I fire off a quick email. In the third instalment of the Freecycle Diaries, Natasha Lomas finds herself falling out of love with the web giveaway service - after... [23 Apr 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 09.03.07
Round-Up Example one: Imagine the Round-Up's surprise when, perusing its junk mail folder in Outlook, it discovered an email that wasn't actually a piece of spam had ended up in there. But when an email from Microsoft appears on the cyber horizon Outlook... [09 Mar 2007]
Porn spam going down, says Symantec
News The top spam categories are healthcare or other general product ads, which combined account for 48 per cent of all junk email, Symantec said. Of all junk messages, eight per cent is fraudulent or part of a scam such as phishing, it said. [07 Mar 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Report from spam hell
Comment Sure enough, bit-by-bit, my email efficiency has been eroded year-on-year by the growing spam menace. From the first time I used email up to the present it has been one of my primary business tools. It all started with an occasional spurious email... [19 Feb 2007]
UK companies 'flouting spam laws'
News The ICO tends to pursue enforcement actions when it receives complaints about unsolicited junk email. The regulations state companies should only send unsolicited sales messages via email to non-customers if they have actively agreed they want to... [08 Jan 2007]
Businesses struggling with fatty spam
News At the same time 150 per cent more junk emails are circulating on the internet compared to last year, according to online security company Postini. The average spam email has swelled to 4.5 times the size it was 12 months ago thanks to the... [07 Dec 2006]
Microsoft cuts licensings cords on Sender ID
News Microsoft has been pushing the technology for a couple of years as a partial solution to junk email. Microsoft's Sender ID email authentication technology can now be used without fear of the software behemoth's intellectual property lawyers. [24 Oct 2006]
Spamhaus beats off the lawyers
News Spamhaus provides lists of known spammers to businesses, enabling them to block junk mail in their incoming email traffic. It was taken to Court by e360 Insight, an email marketing company, which Spamhaus had added to its spam blacklist.e360 told... [23 Oct 2006]
