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- GFI Releases the new GFI MailEssentials anti spam filter.
- INTERNET TELEPHONY Magazine Recognizes Cloudmark for Spam Protection
- Cloudmark Receives 2008 Internet Telephony Excellence Award for …
- Beware of E-mail With Malware
- A Parent’s Guide to Safe, Simple, Kid-Friendly E-Mail
- Sophos: Malicious spam being sent eight times more often
GFI Releases the new GFI MailEssentials anti spam filter.
BigNews.biz (press release), MA
GFI MailEssentials can detect and block phishing emails as well as add email management tools to the mail server: disclaimers, mail monitoring, Internet mail reporting, list server, server-based auto replies and POP3 downloading. It also ships at a price that is 35% cheaper than any of GFI’s competitors. The latest version, GFI MailEssentials 14, ships with SpamRazer, an additional anti-spam engine that provides a second layer of protection and highly effective filtering out-of-the-box. It has been designed to be very simple to use and because it is frequently updated, the latest spam attacks such as NDR spam, CNN spam, MSNBC spam and many more are caught without the need to tweak or train the product. With SpamRazer filtering, IP reputation filtering, Bayesian and other advanced anti-spam technology modules, an ultra high capture rate is obtained as well as a market-leading low rate of false positives thereby ensuring that good and important emails are not classified as spam. To further improve the overall performance of the Microsoft Exchange Server where GFI MailEssentials is installed, Version 14 hooks into the Exchange Server at the SMTP protocol level. This means that Exchange will not have to download every single email before GFI MailEssentials can reject it as spam.
INTERNET TELEPHONY Magazine Recognizes Cloudmark for Spam Protection
TMCnet
Hugh McCartney, CEO of Cloudmark, said the company continues to achieve success in its aggressive fight against e-mail spam, phishing and viruses and looks forward to continue serving Internet service providers (ISPs). Cloudmark delivers real-time spam, virus and phishing protection for fixed, mobile and social networks. The company recently launched its Multi-Point Security solution, an end-to-end messaging security suite that protects all points in the messaging infrastructure, from the network through to the user mailbox. Don’t forget to check out TMCnet’s.
Cloudmark Receives 2008 Internet Telephony Excellence Award for …
Market Wire (press release)
The publication’seditorial staff evaluates each submission of demonstrated customer supportand selects those with impressive project results. About CloudmarkCloudmark, Inc. is a global leader in carrier-grade messaging security,delivering the most accurate, high-performance and comprehensive real-timespam, virus and phishing protection for fixed, mobile and social networks. Cloudmark patented solutions combine Advanced Message Fingerprinting™technology based on innovative, highly efficient algorithms and the GlobalThreat Network™ system consisting of trusted reporters in every countryacross the globe to provide security intelligence and filtering at allpoints of the messaging infrastructure. Cloudmark solutions protect morethan 700 million mailboxes for the world’s largest service providernetworks, including over 75 percent of major ISPs in the United States andJapan. Cloudmark’s customers include Swisscom, EarthLink, Comcast, Tele2,Thus, NTT OCN and XS4ALL (KPN) as well as leading hosting providers,Mailtrust, domainFACTORY, Intergenia and others. Cloudmark is a privatelyheld company headquartered in San Francisco with offices in London, Tokyo,Beijing and Hong Kong.
Beware of E-mail With Malware
The Ledger, FL
Wednesday, and increased dramatically in the early-morning hours after that. “In the first two hours (after the subject lines started appearing) we saw almost 1 million of these messages,” said Masiello. Patrik Runald, chief security adviser at F-Secure, told The Washington Post that various anti-virus protection programs were ill-prepared for the attack. According to a scan of the malware at Virustotal. com – which scans any submitted files against three-dozen anti-virus products – only 14 out of 36 products detected the file as hostile. Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant for Sophos PLC, a security firm based in the United Kingdom, told ComputerWorld that the Obama-linked spam probably accounted for 60 percent of the malware spam on the Internet at the time. “This is taking advantage of ‘Obama mania,’” said Cluley.
A Parent’s Guide to Safe, Simple, Kid-Friendly E-Mail
NetworkWorld.com, MA
Either way, you’ll land at the Family Safety settings
page, where you can add one or more children and, if desired, another parent. (Why should you have all the fun?) This is also
the place to create a trusted-contacts list, one that dictates who’s approved to send e-mail to your child as well as who
your child can e-mail. That gives Windows Live a slight edge over AOL, which offers only inbound protection. What happens if Junior wants to contact, say, a new school friend who isn’t on the contact list? He can visit the Family Safety
site and ask your permission via e-mail or even instant message. When you receive the request, you can hop onto the Family
Safety site and–if the new kid checks out–give your digital blessing on the spot. If there’s a drawback to giving your child a Family Safety-protected Windows Live Hotmail account, it’s that the Web interface
lacks KOL’s kid-friendliness. It isn’t complicated by any means, but younger users may find it intimidating.
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Sophos: Malicious spam being sent eight times more often
Neoseeker
E-mail service providers such as Google and Yahoo also acknowledge that nobody likes spam and does the best they can to keep it out of your inbox where you can focus on the truly important messages from your friends, coworkers, or even those little reminders to yourself to make sure Buddy gets that bath he’s been needing when you get home from work. Unfortunately, those behind the spam e-mails get smarter and things slip through from time to time. Worse still, not everybody is lucky enough to have (working) spam protection and so get many e-mails every day.