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- The French Ministry of Culture and Communication Deploys …
- When viruses come out to play
- Get Better Spam Filtering With Thunderbird
- EPA Launches Protection Team to Explore Widespread Bee Deaths
- Court rules against Simon & Schuster in text spam case
- Bynari Selects Commtouch Messaging Security Solutions
- Cloudmark® Introduces Comprehensive Solution for Combating Growing …
The French Ministry of Culture and Communication Deploys …
SYS-CN Media (press release)
5 million emails a day 97 percent of which consistsof spam the messaging infrastructure of the French Ministry of Culture andCommunication was regularly saturated provoking up to one-hour delays inemail delivery. The server solution in place caused serious maintenance andefficiency issues and quickly became obsolete. At the end of last year theministry’s IT network department decided to look for a dedicated hardwaresolution that would offer robust anti-spam protection and allow for aturnkey deployment as well as a greater efficiency both in terms ofsecurity and management. After considering solutions from the main market-leading security vendorsincluding Ironport the French Ministry of Culture and Communicationselected Fortinet and its FortiMail-2000A email security platform becauseof its superior technology accuracy of detecting spam and ease of use. “We used to receive regular complaints from users about the amount of spamthey were receiving and the impact on their productivity. It was thereforecritical for us to find an email security solution that would effectivelyeliminate spam without of course stopping valid emails or slowing downnetwork traffic” said Jean-Séverin Lair CI at the French Ministry ofCulture and Communication. “Not only does FortiMail address thoserequirements but it also offers unique advantages such as centralizedadministration high availability and the fact that key filters areincluded at no additional cost.
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When viruses come out to play
BusinessDay.com.au
The free ZoneAlarm firewall (zonelabs. com) is also highly efficient and many users prefer it. That may be a good recommendation for Zone Labs’ ZoneAlarm Security suite ($US60) which adds anti-virus phishing and spam protection website filtering privacy protection and instant-messaging security. In terms of value for money however it’s hard to go past Trend Micro’s PC-cillin Internet Security 2005 from the Japanese company that makes available at housecall. com a free web-based anti-virus checker called House Call that is a particular favourite of ours. For $US49 it’s fast and efficient and goes well beyond standard features such as anti-virus protection personal firewall spam and spyware protection: parents can use it to control how much time children spend on the internet and which sites they can access.
Get Better Spam Filtering With Thunderbird
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This can be frustrating not to mention create security problems since rather than block legitimate messages your provider takes the risk and you end up with a bit more spam. I see users delete spam messages [.
EPA Launches Protection Team to Explore Widespread Bee Deaths
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Court rules against Simon & Schuster in text spam case
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Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco unanimously overturned a lower court decision to rule that text messages are under the purview of the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act which makes it unlawful to make automated calls to wireless handsets. The court based its ruling on a prior interpretation by the Federal Communications Commission: “The FCC has explicitly stated that the TCPA’s prohibition. ‘encompasses both voice calls and text calls to wireless numbers including for example short message service (SMS) calls.
Bynari Selects Commtouch Messaging Security Solutions
PR.com (press release)
Commtouch’s technology will work through a real-time connection to its global data centers which analyze large volumes of Internet traffic and identify new spam virus and phishing outbreaks based on mass distribution patterns. As a result emerging outbreaks are identified moments after they are introduced into the Internet. “Commtouch’s advanced spam and virus protection technology was a natural choice for Bynari” said Hyun Kim Bynari president. “Its solutions are completely integrated with our email server offering extensive spam and zero hour virus protection to our customers. ”In addition to being incorporated as part of Bynari’s neonInsight product the Commtouch solutions will also be available as an add-on to the standard neonInsight™ on-premises software offering. NeonInsight™ is a Linux-based email server providing messaging and collaboration solutions including standards-based access to e-mail contacts calendar tasks and notes-sharing from a wide variety of clients including mobile. “Commtouch’s sophisticated messaging security solutions are seamlessly integrated enabling Bynari to focus on its core business” said Avner Amram Commtouch executive vice president and general manager Americas.
Cloudmark® Introduces Comprehensive Solution for Combating Growing …
Business Wire (press release)
with over 400% growth in the number of Trojans seen in the wild for Symbian and Windows Mobile alone. ” MobileAuthority™—Reducing Costs Increasing Security and Improving Service Quality Cloudmark’s new MobileAuthority solution leverages actionable sender data and advanced content filtering combined with Cloudmark’s team of security experts to deliver the highest levels of protection against spam phishing and virus attacks and reduces the risk of service disruption thereby enhancing the trusted mobile environment. The MobileAuthority solution also replaces the need for organizations to build on-site teams for messaging monitoring and management and drives operational efficiency. MobileAuthority™ combines three vital components to defend operator networks against messaging abuse and threats: Cloudmark Sender Intelligence™—Leveraging real-time sender reputation data Cloudmark Sender Intelligence technology enables mobile operators using the MobileAuthority solution to detect and block spammers either within the operator’s network or from a partner network. Advanced Mobile Content Filtering—MobileAuthority precisely identifies malicious content and stops mobile messaging abuse by using Cloudmark’s Advanced Message Fingerprinting™ and real-time feedback from Cloudmark’s Global Threat Network™. Cloudmark MobileAuthority provides approximately 99 percent filtering accuracy of spam phishing and virus attacks.