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Spam and SPIM: A Growing Threat to Messaging Systems

whitepaper Spam has been a serious problem for email administrators and users alike, growing from one in six emails in 2002 to approximately three out of four emails today. After five years of dealing with spam and throwing significant resources at the...

Tags: network security

[11 May 2008]

Technology Consultancy Avoids Spam and Viruses Easily With E-Mail Security Solution

whitepaper With the rise in spam and e-mail viruses, Perot Systems sought an effective way to safeguard its own - and its customers' - messaging systems. Perot Systems turned to Microsoft Antigen for Exchange for assistance in protecting company e-mail...

Tags: anti-virus

[11 May 2008]

Stop Spam, Viruses and Spyware: Endpoint and Perimeter Malware Guide

whitepaper Additional layers of protection at the perimeter are essential to combat the sheer volume of this increasing threat and to prevent networks from being clogged by spam. IT systems are under constant, increasingly sophisticated attack.

Tags: anti-virus

[11 May 2008]

The Changing Face of Online Fraud

whitepaper Not that long ago some officials were declaring the war against spam all but won. The Federal Trade Commission as recently as December 2006 published a "State of spam" report, citing research indicating spam had leveled off or even dropped during...

Tags: network security

[11 May 2008]

Symantec Threat Report Documents Increasingly Sophisticated Attacks

whitepaper It also assesses trends in phishing and spam activity. The Symantec Internet Security Threat Report provides a six-month update of Internet threat activity. It includes analysis of network-based attacks, a review of known vulnerabilities, and...

Tags: network security

[11 May 2008]

Ensuring Complete Protection of Your Microsoft Exchange Environment

whitepaper The webcast will highlight how together Symantec Mail Security and Symantec Backup Exec deliver complete protection of Exchange: stop spam before it enters the network, and reduce the total email volume by up to 50 percent while still ensuring the...

Tags: back-up

[11 May 2008]

Securing Your Messaging Environment From External and Internal Threats

whitepaper Messaging technologies have become the communications life-blood of organizations today and their increased use has left them vulnerable to external attacks like malware, spyware and spam and internal threats like data leakage.

Tags: network security

[11 May 2008]

State of Internet Security Report: Protecting Business Email

whitepaper The report finds that close to 80% of U.S.businesses surveyed experienced a spam attack last year while half also experienced spyware, virus and phishing attacks. Business dependence on email is greater than ever before and the volume of threats...

Tags: anti-virus

[11 May 2008]

Cloud computing: Silver lining…

Comment Others are services to the IT department such as email spam-filtering, for example. Since so many people are talking about cloud computing, it really wouldn't hurt to know what it is. Step forward David Tebbutt of Freeform Dynamics with some answers.

Tags: saas, data centres, cloud computing

[09 May 2008]

USA.NET Microsoft Exchange Hosting: The Business Case

whitepaper Typically this solution comprises Microsoft Exchange 2007, SharePoint Services 3.0, mobile messaging, anti-spam / anti-virus, and other enhanced services. Today's businesses, large or small, need the productivity gains that come with a feature rich...

Tags: microsoft exchange, mail, hosted, exchange

[08 May 2008]

2008 Annual Google Communications Intelligence Report

whitepaper The number of electronic messages increased in 2007, with spam still a huge issue for most organizations. At the end of 2007, Google conducted an annual online survey of messaging professionals. The survey highlighted the major communications...

Tags: middleware

[08 May 2008]

Warning: The Storm still rages on

News The original Storm worm code, which appeared on 19 January 2007, derived its name from the fact the first spam linking to the malware coincided with a severe winter storm in Europe. The two possible avenues of attack are spam with links to the as...

Tags: malware, botnet, storm

[07 May 2008]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: Tighten content security

Comment With the problem of spam in check rather than cured, focus has shifted to data leaks. These specialist solutions identified and eliminated spam but also targeted its sources and cut them off. Before spam became a big problem, there were still...

Tags: filtering, spam, content

[02 May 2008]

Microsoft Online Services Customer Story: Bryant University

whitepaper The centerpiece of the solution is Windows Live Hotmail that includes five gigabytes of storage space per account, as well as features like calendar sharing, contact management, access to e-mail through mobile phones and POP, and improved spam...

Tags: storage management

[02 May 2008]

TechNet Webcast: Implementing Exchange Hosted Filtering (Level 200)

whitepaper Exchange Hosted Filtering incorporates multiple filters to actively help protect businesses' inbound and outbound e-mail from spam, viruses, phishing scams, and e-mail policy violations. The presenter of this webcast explains the steps involved in...

Tags: network security

[01 May 2008]

Security+: The Foundation for Solid Network and Information Security

whitepaper New ways of hacking systems have resulted in viruses, spy ware, malware, e-mail bombs, worms, Trojans, spam--the list goes on! This whitepaper introduces the Security+ certification and the foundation for a career in Information security and data...

Tags: network security, viruses, networking, list

[30 Apr 2008]

Are we losing the security war?

Comment Back in the distant past of 2003 the threats were different - viruses, spam, hackers, SQL Slammer and so on. Now security experts admit traditional approaches can't keep pace with the growth in malware.

Tags: security, e-crime, cyber crime

[29 Apr 2008]

Security threat: One web page infected every five seconds

News The US remains the top contributor of spam, followed by Russia, Turkey, China including Hong Kong and Brazil. In addition, there has been a rise in spam-related web pages - a daily average of 23,300 such pages were tracked during the first three...

Tags: malware, email, web, security

[24 Apr 2008]

Facebook under attack: The spam and phishing threat

News This was identified as being the prelude to a spam or phishing attack and the attack was traced to a Seattle hosting service. The popular social-networking site Facebook is coming under increased attack by spammers and phishers, the company's...

Tags: phishing, spam, facebook

[23 Apr 2008]

Configuring Mail Flow in a Single Exchange Server 2007

whitepaper In this white paper the author explains how to configure a single Exchange Server 2007 to send and receive messages and also how to install the Anti Spam Transport Agents that allow the Exchange Administrator to add anti spam transport agents to...

Tags: application servers

[23 Apr 2008]

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