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- Spam a massive carbon polluter: McAfee
- Iron Mountain Enhances Portfolio with Hosted Email Management and …
- Symantec: Security holes malware spike in 2008
- Trend Micro(TM) InterScan Security Virtual Appliances Are VMware …
Spam a massive carbon polluter: McAfee
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According to McAfee the energy saved in the ensuing lull before spammers rebuilt their sending capacity equated to taking 2. 2 million cars off the road that day proving the impact of the 62 trillion spam e-mails that are sent each year. r perhaps we should all just switch to Gmail with Google’s astonishingly effective antispam. What do you think? Is this a ruse by McAfee to sell more software based on bogus figures or does the correlation between massive spam volumes and wasted energy ring true with you? Related stories.
Iron Mountain Enhances Portfolio with Hosted Email Management and …
PR Newswire (press release)
Users can search archives from their desktops getting results in less than a second. Email continuity service – Complete access to email even during outages and disasters. Email spam protection and email antivirus protection – A spam filtering solution stops 99 percent of spam and has a perfect track record for stopping viruses. Data Leak Prevention – Allows administrators to set policies to detect and prevent key confidential or restricted information within emails and attachments from leaking to unauthorized persons. Retention policies are suspended to prevent destruction if a legal hold is declared. Full forensic audit trails are maintained on every search and every access to retained emails.
Symantec: Security holes malware spike in 2008
CNET News
Most data breaches that could lead to identity fraud were in the education sector while the financial sector was the top industry for identities exposed. Theft or loss of equipment accounted for nearly half of data breaches that could lead to identity fraud and for 66 percent of identities exposed. SpamThe most common type of spam detected was related to Internet- or computer-related goods and service. Spam volumes rose nearly 200 percent in 2008 to nearly 350 billion messages in 2008. Botnets were responsible for distributing about 90 percent of all spam e-mail. Malware spikesSymantec detected nearly 1. 66 million malicious code threats which represent 60 percent of the 2.
Trend Micro(TM) InterScan Security Virtual Appliances Are VMware …
PR Newswire (press release)
InterScan Messaging Security Software Virtual Appliance (IMSVA) delivers comprehensive protection against email-based threats such as spam viruses malware and botnets today’s most rapidly growing source of spam. By incorporating Trend Micro’s in-the-cloud Email Reputation Service up to 80 percent of spam can be dropped at the connection level freeing up bandwidth and storage. Also incorporated within IMSVA is Trend Micro’s in-the-cloud Web Reputation which can block access to malicious Web sites in real time. InterScan(TM) Web Security Software Virtual Appliance (IWSVA) delivers comprehensive timely protection against Web-based threats such as spyware and bots. By incorporating Trend Micro’s in-the-cloud Web threat protection as an additional layer of defense IWSVA includes real-time Web reputation content scanning and URL filtering capabilities to secure organizations against today’s latest Web threats.
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