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,…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…