Archive for December, 2007

Edgetec brings managed e-mail service to SA

Monday, December 31st, 2007

Edgetec, one of South Africa’s managed e-mail security providers, with an existing 100 000 users abroad, has successfully brought the service to South Africa. … Edgetec’s Managed E-mail service has operated successfully for the past five years and gives all companies a…

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ESET launches NOD32 antivirus v3.0 and ESET Smart Security

Monday, December 31st, 2007

ESET Smart Security has hit the market. The product is a new, integrated security solution for consumers and small-to-medium-sized businesses. It includes antivirus, antispyware, antispam and firewall features, built on ESET’s heuristic ThreatSense detection system and the NOD32 scanning engine.

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Say hello to ‘bacn’

Monday, December 31st, 2007

E-mail users are all too familiar with messages in their inboxes that include MySpace friend requests, newsletters from their favorite environmental group, electronic bank statements or announcements of a special sale going on at The Gap. … Michael Hughes, 36, of…

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Hackers Take the Holidays

Monday, December 31st, 2007

Christmas, New Year’s, or St. Swithin’s Day, attackers always seem to be in a holiday mood … Hackers love holidays. It doesn’t seem to matter whether it’s Christmas, Valentine’s Day, or Halloween — if there’s a chance to fool users into opening a holiday message and…

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Example of double spam sent to mailboxes and mailing lists

Monday, December 31st, 2007

A way of double spamming - combo of spamming email users and mailing lists to get a profit: #1 Spammer sends a spam e-mail to a mailing list that doesn’t have rigorous moderating - in this case net… … A way of double spamming - combo of spamming email users and…

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Email Spam Laws

Monday, December 31st, 2007

… bulk e-mail or unsolicited e-mails we strong recommend that you read the current Federal and State laws concerned … Colorado Junk Email Law, enacted … Despite New Spam Law, Postini Reports Junk E-Mail Still Piling Up … spam can only be fought through a combination of…

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Fire-Proofing Your Network With UTM, Part 3: Layering on anti-X defenses

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

We continue our Unified Threat Management series with a guided tour of network-based virus, spyware, spam, and web defenses, demonstrating how they responded to threats during our tests. … In this series, we examined the drivers behind Unified Threat Management and…

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Spam - 90% of enterprise email

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Spam statistics from data collected during the month of November 2007 show that spam continues to represent nearly 90% of the total email volume received by large enterprises. … MP3 spam on the decline Can’t say I’ve seen many Word document spam messages coming…

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Top Security Software of 2007

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

The best antivirus, antispyware, antispam, firewall and browser this year … By: Bogdan Popa, Security and Search Engines Editor 2007 has been a busy year when it comes to computer security, with all kinds of threats aiming to be deployed on people’s computers. Have a…

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HIV-Infected Big Brother Winner Used to Infect Other People

Friday, December 28th, 2007

On the web … By: Bogdan Popa, Security and Search Engines Editor I must admit this is something new and pretty interesting for the security world, as a new spam attack has been spotted in Brazil. Jake Soriano, of Trend Micro, today reported that a new spam campaign,…

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