Email Security Under The Microscope

Email security firm MessageLabs has claimed that every nine out of ten emails in circulation can be categorised as spam emails although most of this fails to reach users' inboxes. According to the study conducted by the company,...

Spam and phishing attacks make up 97% of the email that is sent, according to an information security report from Microsoft. The figure is a three percent rise on the previous year.Microsoft said that 97% of the email sent around...

Identity thieves and hackers striking Windows users on all fronts, as Russia rears its head higher in the Dirty Dozen league of spam-relaying nations. IT security and control firm Sophos has released the results of its...

I was listening to the podcast version of The Bottom Line - Evan Davies' excellent radio program which is broadcast on BBC R4 each Saturday - last night and was intrigued to hear John Brigden, the executive vice president of...

Security firm Webroot released its latest research report, "State of Internet Security: Protecting Business Email" which reveals the significant impact that rapidly growing email security threats, in size and volume,...

Barracuda networks unveiled some worrying findings in its latest report about spam propagation in our mailbox. The security firm analysed over one billion emails going to its 50,000 customers and found out that between 90 to 95...

I was intrigued to read that a father-son team called Knujon (no junk spelled backwards) which has dedicated its time and energy to fighting spam, claims to have shut down more than 50,000 Web sites in the last two years that use...

Interception of email poses a real threat to UK law firms, placing the integrity of their communications at risk, according to an industry survey.  The survey, commissioned by specialist security provider Securecoms,...

Data collected by SonicWALL from its Smart Network database of over 1.3 million e-mail users shows ongoing growth in the volume of spam, virus and phishing attacks, increased use of PDF spam and the emergence of a new wave of...

SonicWALL, Inc. launched a new version of its Email Security solution that delivers powerful new performance and management capabilities to help keep organisations productive and safe from inbound and outbound email threats....

Research released by SoftScan claims to show that 88.51 per cent of all email scanned by its servers during May was found to be spam, with virus levels tailing off slightly to 1.4 per cent.The email security service provider says...

Email security statistics compiled by SonicWALL, Inc. indicate that spam volumes rose by 44.29% in Q1 2007 from Q4 2006. Overall junk email which includes spam, phishing, viruses, Directory Harvest and similar types of attacks...

Managed email security firm SoftScan says that the surge of image-based spam - which is designed to beat most anti-spam systems - has increased the size of a typical spam message by 77 per cent since September of last year.The...

Following on from Marshal's TRACE team's analysis of earlier in the week that spam is rising ever higher comes a report from SoftScan, which says it has categorised 90.3 per cent of email passing through its servers during...

MessageLabs, a leading provider of integrated messaging and web security services to businesses worldwide, made public the results of its MessageLabs Intelligence Report for October 2006.In this report, MessageLabs highlights the...