News About Spam Protection

The News Review:

- … For Domino Edge Server to Strengthen Gateway Protection for…
- Abaca Launches Abaca Email Protection Gateway EPG 3000
- Spam levels remain steady in March
- Anti-virus software isn’t the only computer security tool
- Secure Computing Announces New TrustedSource Alliance: Makes TrustedSo…

… For Domino Edge Server to Strengthen Gateway Protection for…
sys-con.com – Apr 8, 2008
It means IT managers in an IBM Lotus Notes environment will have more free time to handle other IT issues, and benefit from improved bandwidth, disk space, responsiveness and security,” said Alyn Hockey, Director of Product Management for Clearswift. In addition to filtering spam, viruses and malware before they hit the internal network, the Edge Server provides a safe and trusted connection for confidential communications between an organization and its business partners through the use of transport layer security (TLS) encryption. The Edge Server will help make a company’s servers more reliable, the networks faster and free up email storage from unwanted information. The Edge Server features a secure Linux core and provides multiple layers of spam protection at the boundary, including spam reputation services, spam filters and anti-virus, to optimise email boundary hygiene. “The Edge Server is a logical extension of Clearswift’s vision for policy enforcement, which is the key for any Internet and email security strategy. The service allows us to address all email hygiene issues in a single location outside the network while freeing the content engines to focus on content security and policy enforcement,” Hockey said.

Abaca Launches Abaca Email Protection Gateway EPG 3000
IT News Online – Apr 8, 2008
A message is considered more likely to be spam when sent to recipients that typically receive a higher percentage of spam than average. Conversely, a message is considered more likely to be legitimate if it is sent to recipients that typically receive a lower percentage of spam than average. By using the receiver’s reputation to determine the likelihood that incoming messages are legitimate or not, ReceiverNet enables Abaca’s Email Protection Gateway to effectively block a minimum of 99% of spam, along with viruses and phishing attacks. With the ReceiverNet Service, members gain the rating power of the entire Abaca network.

Spam levels remain steady in March
VNUNet.com – Apr 8, 2008
com, 08 Apr 2008 Spam accounted for 96. 63 per cent of all email scanned in March, making itthe third consecutive month that junk mail levels have remained steady. However, security experts at SoftScan noticed a sudden 40-45 per cent drop inthe amount of spam stopped at the first level of protection, the reputationfilter, in the last few days of March.
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Anti-virus software isn’t the only computer security tool
USA Today – Apr 8, 2008
That’s not necessarily so. Fraudulent e-mail and tainted websites are more prevalent than ever. Spam, much of it pitching fake drugs and financial scams, accounts for 80% of all e-mail, says Symantec. The number of new strains of malicious programs increased fivefold in 2007 over 2006, and about 20,000 new malicious programs are unleashed on the Web each day, says AV-Test Labs. Yet most consumers are in a fog about the array of tech security tools they can — and probably should — use to protect themselves, tech security analysts say. Craig Spiezle, Microsoft’s director of security and privacy, says his own wife couldn’t tell anyone which security tools they really ought to be using. “The big challenge we’re dealing with is the volume and velocity of new threats,” says Spiezle… Programs such as AVG’s LinkScanner, ScanSafe’s Scandoo, Trend Micro’s TrendProtect, McAfee’s SiteAdvisor and Finjan’s SecureBrowsing grade Web pages as safe, unsafe or questionable. Web scanners aren’t perfect. But they provide a layer of protection against what has become cybercrooks’ favorite way to spread malicious programs: via the Web. “The more layers you have, the safer you are,” says Roger Thompson, AVG chief research officer. •Browser security tools. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 and Mozilla’s Firefox 2, the most widely used Web browsers, both offer anti-phishing filters that alert users if they try to click to bogus websites set up to fool them into typing passwords and other sensitive data. Microsoft distributes IE7 with this feature disabled, so users must choose to turn it on.
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Secure Computing Announces New TrustedSource Alliance: Makes TrustedSo…
Maketwire – Maketwire (Communiqués de presse) – Apr 8, 2008
com, MarkMonitor, RiverbedTechnology and Webroot. Secure Computing’s TrustedSource adds an essential layer of protection toguard against today’s most advanced threats, including insidious Web-bornemalware, morphing viruses, targeted phishing attacks and more, whileeliminating as much as 90 percent of incoming spam before it enters thenetwork gateway, saving significant bandwidth. It is the most precise andcomprehensive Internet host reputation system in the world. It works byaccumulating data from over 7000 sensors in 82 countries, creating areal-time profile of all suspicious activity and content, and then watchingfor deviations based upon expected behavior. The system turns thisinformation into “reputation scores” that enable it to quickly andproactively identify and accurately reject or quarantine unwanted trafficfrom illegitimate or “suspect” sources. The TrustedSource Alliance is a partnership amongbest-of-breed original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), software and serviceproviders… They are making the Internet safer by leveraging theTrustedSource global intelligence system to provide proactive real-timeprotection for networks. “Secure Computing was quick to realize the need for reputation services asa way to enhance and differentiate its technology,” said Charlotte Dunlap,senior analyst, Enterprise Security at Current Analysis. “The continualincrease in spam attacks has prompted infrastructure providers to includereputation services as part of their solutions. We believe enterprisecustomers should consider reputation services an important buying criteriafor these solutions. As partners join the TrustedSource Alliance, the reputation systemcontinually expands its knowledge base about the various types of Internettraffic. As partners continue to deploy solutions that integrate orinteroperate with TrustedSource, the global sensor network increasesallowing TrustedSource to both gather and disseminate additional knowledgeand insight about the latest threats. The additional knowledge provided byTrustedSource enables appliances and services to block attacks quicker andoffer a higher level of proactive protection for electronic communicationsand transactions between people, companies and countries.

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