The News Review:
- Two Weeks Out Spam Volumes Still Way Down
- Hosted Service delivers outsourced anti-spam protection.
- Santa Thinks IT Security This Christmas
- Facebook Wins Massive CAN-SPAM Award Vows to Collect
- Accounting Firm Caps Spam and Risky Email With Websense “In the …
- Walsh to Tout CA’s ‘Most Wanted’ Malware
- AtMail Mail Server Software Review
Two Weeks Out Spam Volumes Still Way Down
Washington Postnbsp;United Statesnbsp;
Adam O’Donnell director of emerging technologies at Cloudmark an e-mail security company in San Francisco said those who did not see a drop in spam from the McColo shutdown likely subscribe to an Internet service provider that already does an effective job blocking 99 percent of junk e-mail. “People who had really good systems in place probably didn’t benefit from this while those who had more marginal spam filter protection likely saw a significant drop off in spam” O’Donnell said. By Brian Krebs | November 25 2008; 9:22 AM ET.
Hosted Service delivers outsourced anti-spam protection.
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“Small companies want to focus on their business – not on fighting spam. Our goal was to develop an anti-spam solution that was customizable yet easy to setup and maintain and one that would fit a small company budget. With Hosted CanIt small organizations can now enjoy anti-spam protection and options previously only available to large enterprises. Hosted CanIt is a software as a service solution (cloud computing) hosted by Roaring Penguin Software. The client points their MX Record at the Hosted CanIt server and their spam problems disappear. Hosted CanIt is available through Value Added Resellers (VARs) and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) for their Small and Medium Business customers in North America. Hosted CanIt pricing starts at $1.
Santa Thinks IT Security This Christmas
eWeeknbsp; NYnbsp;
Kaspersky Mobile Security
The Kaspersky product includes a number of features to protect users
in the event that their mobile phone is lost or stolen including the
ability to send an SMS (Short Message Service) message to the phone to
block access without a password. McAfee VirusScan Mobile
McAfee VirusScan Mobile includes malware scanning and protection at
multiple entry and exit points including e-mail instant messages
attachments SMS Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Norton Smartphone Security
Symantec’s product targets SMS spam by blocking short text and
multimedia messages from unknown senders while also offering
protection against malware. It supports both the Windows and Symbian
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There is also a free version of this product available but the paid
version includes a number of features not in the free edition such as
rootkit detection and “Safe Surf” technology. Eikon and Eikon to Go
UPEK’s fingerprint scanner which works for Macs and Windows PCs
allows users to swipe their finger for access to the desktop and from
there load usernames and passwords for online accounts.
Facebook Wins Massive CAN-SPAM Award Vows to Collect
E-Commerce Timesnbsp;
They have an arsenal of tactics that makes it very difficult to capture and prosecute them much less collect substantial court awards. Many spammers operate from countries in the Caribbean and Central America where it’s tougher to seize assets and easier to hide them Dozier said. Yet spammers don’t have to operate outside of U. borders to garner protection he noted. Many simply move to states such as Florida Texas and Nevada all of which have laws that make it difficult to prosecute them. “Many commercial e-mailers are located in Florida because it has laws that protect judgment debtors in the form of homestead exemptions” Dozier said.
Accounting Firm Caps Spam and Risky Email With Websense “In the …
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After we deployed the
on-demand security service from Websense we reduced spam saved time
and employees no longer had to deal with inappropriate images and
content. ”
“Hosted services are quickly becoming an attractive platform of
choice in the messaging security market” said Brian Burke security
program director for IDC. “This hosted software-as-a-service
security model represents a great opportunity to deliver multi-tier
protection from security threats with reduced deployment and
management time. ”
“Deployment was easy” added Gregory. “We rolled out the solution in
less than an hour. Administration and management of the system is
extremely easy and intuitive. While we haven’t had to call on them
much we’ve experienced great levels of support both through our
solution provider and through Websense technical support.
Walsh to Tout CA’s ‘Most Wanted’ Malware
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Silent running
In addition CA has added what it calls silent protection a feature that automatically analyzes a program’s behavior and determines whether that program should be allowed or denied access to the user’s computer. CA Internet Security Suite Plus 2009 automatically detects updates and alerts users and customers will get free upgrades daily protection updates and 24 x 7 online technical support. Finally CA offers buyers of the Internet Security Suite Plus 2009 a total of up to $10000 in identity theft coverage and coverage against damage to their computers caused by a computer virus. The identity theft coverage safeguards data on one PC with Mobile Lifeline software with identity theft protection worth up to $5000 if the customer’s identity is compromised.
Related from Managementmonster: CA to Buy Role-Based Identity Management Vendor Eurekify
AtMail Mail Server Software Review
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The product supports a whole host of tools to help you fight the SPAM that plagues everyone using email today. AtMAIL supports DNSBL pattern matching technology message redirection full blacklist and white list; both domain and user Group and user filtering is also available. The web interface even allows users to define their own level of anti-spam protection. The system even supports Bayesian filtering all built into the install. For those administrators that have to support the smart devices and mobile users; this worked out of the box for us. With this module the mail synch is working on all of our devices without any issues. The access your mail anywhere from the phone or mail device was very easy to get up and running.