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Nexusguard takes a closer look at the Spamhaus incident and finds that the bandwidth flooding was the least of their problems. (PRWEB) May 24, 2013 In March, non-profit anti-spam organization Spamhaus was the victim of a DDoS attack, which grew to have more than 300 Gbps flood traffic sent to their servers. The attack was widely reported in international media as the largest attack in the history of the Internet. However, the real focus should not be the scale of the attack, but rather...

GFI Software(TM) report reveals SMB employees regularly read email during weddings, funerals and other family events CARY, N.C., May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The conventional, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., five-day work week is a thing of the past for the overwhelming majority of workers at small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs), according to a new survey on work-related email habits. Due to the widespread availability and use of smartphones and tablets, email is more accessible than ever and, as...

M3AAWG Encourages Member Companies to Work Together To Develop Best Practices for Reducing and Preventing Spam and Malware VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Comm100, the leading global provider of enterprise-level customer service and communication solutions, announced today it joined the Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group (M(3)AAWG) as a supporter. M(3)AAWG is where the industry comes together to work against bots, malware, spam,...

IceWarp has discovered a new sophisticated Spam delivery method hackers use to bypass most anti-spam defenses and attack computers worldwide, the global messaging and collaborations solutions provider announced today. According to the company’s security experts, the following pattern has emerged: hackers steal email addresses and passwords from the outside nodes, and use this combo to break into a corporate email system. Springfielld, Virginia (PRWEB) May 13, 2013 -- Global messaging...

100 billion spam and 1 billion malware emails daily - Pump and dump spam returns with a vengeance MCLEAN, Virginia, May 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Unwanted and dangerous email increased dramatically in the first quarter of 2013, according to a Q1 Internet Threats Trend Report issued by Commtouch(R) (NASDAQ: CTCH), a leading provider of Internet security technology and cloud-based services. During the first quarter of 2013, an average of 97.4 billion spam emails and 973 million...

GLASGOW, Scotland, April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Scottish Building Society uses cloud services for unified threat protection The world's oldest building society, Scottish Building Society [http://www.scottishbs.co.uk ], says email filtering [http://www.iomartcloud.com/media/pdf/case-studies/scottish-building-society-case-study.pdf ] from iomartcloud has ensured that the trust placed in it by its customers is reflected in the way it operates. (Logo:...

SAO PAULO, April 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br - Comite Gestor da Internet no Brasil) is presenting the first assessment of the Port 25 Management adoption in Brazil. One of the results is the country's exit from the top of the list of countries that send spam, according to the CBL (Composite Blocking List - http://cbl.abuseat.org/country.html) statistics, which on a daily basis updates data on IPs that have sent spam in the last 10 days....

Commtouch On-Premise Email Security utilizes Eleven eXpurgate technology McLEAN, Virginia, April 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Commtouch(R) (NASDAQ: CTCH), a leading provider of Internet security technology and cloud-based services, today announced that NetCologne Gesellschaft fuer Telekommunikation mbH, one of the leading regional Internet and telecommunication service providers in Germany, is now protecting its email inboxes against spam, malware and phishing using the Commtouch...

Businesses can now extend Web browsing policies and filtering protection outside of the corporate network CARY, N.C., March 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- GFI Software(TM) today announced GFI WebMonitor(®) 2013, the latest version of the company's Web security and filtering solution targeted at small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). This new version enables IT managers to deploy a roaming Web filtering agent on laptop and notebook devices. With this new agent, businesses can extend...

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Giovane Cesar Moreira Moura, a researcher in Holland, believes the Internet and the real world have something in common: Both have certain areas where crime is prevalent. After scanning the traffic of more than 42,000 Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Moura found that nearly 50 percent of the world’s junk mail originates from only 20 different ISPs. Moreover, these ISPs are located in different areas of the world which have...