Archive for October, 2008

Malicious Spam Up Eight Fold In 3Q

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

The number of malicious attachments increased eight-fold in the third quarter of 2008 over the previous quarter, according to Sophos. Between July and September, one in every 416 email messages contained a malicious attachment,…

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SpamSieve Update Improves Accuracy

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

C-Command updated its spam filtering application for Mac OS X, SpamSieve. The new version improves on several aspects of the app, including the accuracy of catching spam messages. The company said it rewrote the filesystem code…

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Phishing Maybank

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

I found these two emails in my google spam folder. Not trusting the spam function, I occasionally would browse through my spam folder to see if there is any accidental deletion by the service. Although one look at it I know…

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IDC: Most Enterprises Unprotected Against E-mail Security Risks

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

by Stephen Swoyer Given the prevalence of spam and the sensationalism that attends just about any incident of unauthorized data leakage, you’d think most shops would have taken steps to proactively protect against both threats….

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GFI Software Selects Mailshell to Provide Advanced Integrated Messaging Security

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

Mailshell a leading provider of email reputation antispam and antiphishing engines for OEMs today announced that GFI Software an international developer of network security content security and messaging software has selected…

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Amazon’s cloud services growing up, sending out spam

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

Amazon made multiple cloud announcements yesterday, just ahead of anything Microsoft might be pitching at PDC next week. The Elastic Compute Cloud is out of beta; there’s beta support for Windows 32-bit or 64-bit at $0.125 per…

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Spammers Hack Servers to Infect Legit E-Mail

Saturday, October 25th, 2008

Spammers are getting around improved filtering systems, according to Cyberoam, a division of Elitecore Technologies. The unified threat management (UTM) solutions provider said that spammers would steal legitimate e-mail…

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How to Get Off the Spam E-Mail Lists

Saturday, October 25th, 2008

Actually this is almost impossible, sorry. This is due to many reasons. Congress passed a law but it is like a lot of their laws basically for show and unenforceable. There are some things you can do to lessen your load though….

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Cyberoam Releases Latest Email Threat Trend Report

Saturday, October 25th, 2008

Cyberoam, a division of Elitecore Technologies, has announced the Q3 2008 email threat trend report. The report was prepared in collaboration with partner Commtouch. The report showed spammers’ techniques to hide their bad…

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Red Condor: A Minimalist Spam Appliance

Friday, October 24th, 2008

Red Condor provides good spam blocking, but can you live with the minimal configuration? Roger A. Grimes, InfoWorld When Red Condor sent me an invitation to review its MAG (Message Assurance Gateway) anti-spam appliance, I…

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