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- Enhancing Messaging Security
- Spam Protection You Can Trust
- Network Box: 2008 was a record year for spam and viruses says …
- McColo Gets Shut Down Spam Levels Fall to 59 Per Cent
- Do not skimp on your IT security framework even in a recession
- Cloudmark Announces Significant Traction for Cloudmark Authority …
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Enhancing Messaging Security
TMC Net CT
Quite simply the spam epidemic is only growing and these institutions recognized the need to increase their protection — without having to completely replace their existing solutions. As such it is a natural fit for university environments which not only boast large numbers of users but deploy both fixed and wireless technologies.
Spam Protection You Can Trust
MxToolbox TX
Spammers know that people are expecting mail from places like Sears and JC Penny and the spammer will use people?s trust to get to them using false addresses. This is called spoofing and can cause you all sorts of headaches. The spam protection you get with MxToolBox will stop this spam from reaching your computer so that you only get legitimate email from these companies. They have the use of a variety of anti-spam technologies that is able to recognize a message from a legitimate company and one that is from a spam site. However one of the loopholes spammers can use is created when a personal whitelist is used by the computer user. Many email programs will allow the user to whitelist an email address or a domain name which allows all the email that has been whitelisted to get straight through to the computer. This can open the door to the Whitelist Exploit.
Network Box: 2008 was a record year for spam and viruses says …
TMC Net CT
Currently spam protection has been applied using three main methods: analysis of the message content the reputation of the sender; and challenge response which works by putting the onus onto the email sender to accept a challenge from the recipient to prove who they are. Current anti-spam systems will rarely reach more than 95-98 per cent accuracy which when you consider the amount of email sent still lets through a significant number of spam emails. Challenge response systems used in isolation are notoriously unsuccessful with as little as 40 per cent of genuine email getting through the system as senders are reluctant to go through the challenge system. The difference with Network BoxA’s eMail Relationship is that it analyses and learns from behaviour of the sender and recipient of an email to give a score to the email which is applied in addition to traditional anti-spam filter analysis.
McColo Gets Shut Down Spam Levels Fall to 59 Per Cent
EFYTimes (press release) India
“With user-generated content on blogs file sharing platforms and social networks having experienced huge growth over the last few years spammers and malicious script writers are finding new ways to engage users” said Amir Lev chief technology officer Commtouch. “An increasing number of blended threats have emerged as new opportunities to infect users’ machines have arisen. These kinds of sites have become targets for new more elaborative schemes and users vendors and service providers must beware and employ protection measures. “Commtouch Recurrent Pattern Detection and GlobalView technologies identify and block messaging and Web security threats including increasingly malicious malware and phishing outbreaks.
Do not skimp on your IT security framework even in a recession
Security Park UK
Electronic attacks are now largely automated seeking out unprotected targets on the Internet finding and attacking unprotected connections within minutes. Highly sophisticated and equally automated threats lurk on websites across the Internet within e-mails and in the physical world. Data Protection Act (DPA) compliance is also a feature that affects all sizes of economic unit. And after the highly publicised failures of organisations like HMRC even the smallest organisation is now potentially in the gun-sights of the Information Commissioner. Expect to see the rate of prosecutions here increase and the number of £5000 fines. The fact is information security is an increasingly important boardroom topic regardless of local economic conditions anyway. That’s being driven by three factors.
Cloudmark Announces Significant Traction for Cloudmark Authority …
Business Wire (press release) CA
“With the amount of spam increasing for both students and faculty in the Computer Science Department we realized that we needed to enhance our existing filtering solution” said Joe Shamblin Computer Science Department Duke University. “The Cloudmark Authority plug-in integrated seamlessly into our existing messaging system requires minimal administration and has significantly reduced the amount of spam getting through to user inboxes. ur ability to enhance protection against e-mail-borne threats has also led to fewer complaints from our users about spam issues and delivers an overall improved experience for students faculty and alumni. ” Cloudmark Authority offers the industry’s fastest and most accurate spam phishing and virus protection achieving more than 98 percent accuracy with near-zero false positives. It utilizes a combination of Advanced Message FingerprintingTM algorithms and real-time corroborated feedback from the Global Threat Network system. Cloudmark Authority rapidly detects messaging abuse using an in-memory cache of verified fingerprints that updates every 45 seconds to catch the latest threat outbreaks.