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Filtering's ding-dong fight with malicious spam
Comment Although instant messaging (IM) has been relatively free of spam, this could change in 2008 if MessageLabs is to be believed. Mark Sunner, chief security office at MessageLabs, says: "You wouldn't be expected to clean your own water - but in... [10 Dec 2007]
Spammers switching on to YouTube?
News On 17 October spammers used attached MP3 music files to try to "sneak messages past spam filters", said MessageLabs. MessageLabs has claimed that following the first spam campaign involving audio files earlier this month, which attempted to control... [30 Oct 2007]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Vendor battleground - filtering
Comment IronPort, which also started out as a vendor of spam-filtering appliances is in this game, as are BlackSpider and MessageLabs, which both now offer web filtering alongside their hosted email filtering service. [02 Mar 2006]
Microsoft enforces its anti-spam tech
Still, because some large e-mail senders such as AOL support Sender ID, about 30 percent of e-mail today carries Sender ID information, according to e-mail filtering company MessageLabs. If you receive mail forwarded through, for example, a... [23 Jun 2005]
Spammers 'tricking ISPs' into sending junk mail
This ups the ante in the need for filters," said Mark Sunner, chief technology officer for MessageLabs. Anti-spam company MessageLabs confirmed Linford's findings. Spam levels are about to skyrocket, according to experts who warned this week that... [02 Feb 2005]
Spam plateaus - but worse times to come?
News Mark Sunner, CTO of MessageLabs, said his company's own monitoring of the problem puts that figure at around 80 per cent of all email traffic, but added the simple fact that legitimate email will always exists amid the spam is one factor forcing... [02 Feb 2005]
Spammers have no sense of humour: Official
News Natasha Staley, information analyst from MessageLabs, said her company's own analysis hasn't revealed a particular increase in jokes, per se, but added that "it would make sense given spammers' tendency to include blocks of non-spam-like text... [05 Nov 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 29.10.04
Round-Up Natasha Staley, information analyst at MessageLabs, said the campaigns are largely aimed at "the chav generation" - meaning the fake-Burberry and costume jewellery-wearing 'chav' masses for whom a fake Rolex really would be the ultimate status... [29 Oct 2004]
The future's Brightmail for MessageLabs customers
News UK email security firm MessageLabs has struck a deal with security giant Symantec which will see it include Brightmail anti-spam technology in its own email filtering as it endeavours to better protect its customers from unsolicited email. [01 Sep 2004]
Bagle worm threat cools
News MessageLabs, which filters out spam and viruses from email for clients, said it has stopped nearly 150,000 copies of the Bagle virus since Sunday - about one in every 136 messages processed by the company. [21 Jan 2004]
Mail filtering firm MessageLabs blocked by AOL spam filters
News Mail filtering specialist MessageLabs has come in for criticism after it was blocked by AOL's spam filters amid allegations that it had an open relay which was pumping out spam. One customer, who contacted silicon.com anonymously, to complain about... [07 Jul 2003]
Sobig continues to clog inboxes throughout Thursday
News In the past 24 hours, the virus, known as Sobig.E, mainly has affected US computer users, according to email service provider MessageLabs. Certainly yesterday, it had everything to do with the time zone," said Mark Sunner, chief technology officer... [27 Jun 2003]
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