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E-mail spam is a subset of spam that involves sending nearly identical messages to thousands (or millions) of recipients. Perpetrators of such spam ("spammers") often harvest addresses of prospective recipients from Usenet postings or from web pages, obtain them from databases, or simply guess them by using common names and domains. By popular definition, spam occurs without the permission of the recipients.
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The Guard E/N is an e-mail management appliance with both capture and retrieval functionality. It is an open solution that supports any mail system; is easy to use; easy to deploy; requires no third-party software, and costs just a few pounds per user.
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Juniper Networks offers a robust set of enterprise-class network security solutions for small businesses and branch offices alike. These include the Juniper Networks NetScreen-5GT, NetScreen-5GT ADSL, NetScreen-5GT Wireless and NetScreen-5XT appliances. These cost-effective, remote office security products are fully capable of securing a small remote office, retail outlet, or broadband telecommuter.
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Whether you are at home or on the go, Trend Micro Internet Security Pro safeguards your online transactions, identity, and irreplaceable files with the most comprehensive protection available. Get all the benefits of our proven Internet security plus enhanced identity theft protection, Wi-Fi validation, data theft protection, and system recovery.
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Trend Micro Internet Security 2008 makes it easy to protect your home network, personal identity, and online activity. It guards against present viruses, spyware, and identity theft as well as the web threats of tomorrow. Confidently e-mail, shop, bank, or share photos online, knowing your privacy and files are well protected.
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Protect your Windows-based environment 24x7 against multiple Internet threats - including spam, spyware, viruses, phishing and inappropriate content - with easy-to-install, easy-to-manage solution that safeguards PCs, notebooks and servers, including Microsoft Exchange servers. Trend Micro Client Server Messaging Security for SMB is a Worry-Free™ security solution that provides your business with automatic threat detection and removal, offering protection against increasingly sophisticated threats to protect your network and employee productivity. It's like having a virtual security team.
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Protect your Internet gateway, mail servers, file servers, and mobile and desktop PCs with Trend Micro NeatSuite. An easy to manage solution, NeatSuite defends against hackers, viruses, worms, spam, spyware, bots, phishing attacks and inappropriate content. It delivers automatic threat prevention, protection and cleanup and supports other Trend Micro solutions for outbreak prevention and damage cleanup.
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Protect your Internet gateway, mail and network servers, desktops and laptops with Trend Micro™ NeatSuite™ Standard, a fully integrated, centrally managed security suite designed to stop Web-based attacks, viruses, spyware, spam, and blended threats. NeatSuite Standard is designed for mid-sized businesses with limited IT resources in need of an integrated, all-in one security solution that is easy to manage and deploy.
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Spam, viruses, spyware, phishing, and inappropriate content can disrupt business operations and reduce productivity. Hidden in email and enabled by Web connections, these rapidly evolving threats consume network resources, drive up support costs, and endanger confidential information, employee privacy, and compliance efforts. Trend Micro™ InterScan™ Gateway Security Appliance is an all-in-one dynamic security platform that stops threats before they can damage your network.
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Win the battle against email threats with Trend Micro’s InterScan Messaging Security Suite. It protects your network by integrating award-winning antivirus with zero-day protection, powerful anti-spam, and anti-phishing along with content filtering for compliance and data security. This flexible software solution is delivered on a single, highly scalable platform with centralized management for easy, comprehensive email security at the gateway.
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Attack Internet threats at the gateway before they attack your network and data. Trend Micro InterScan VirusWall provides complete protection against all Internet-borne threats from the leader in gateway antivirus solutions. Consolidate your infrastructure and reduce total cost of ownership through single-vendor support and maintenance, fewer support calls, improved network availability and increased employee productivity.
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Stop spam and email-borne threats before they reach the desktop with Trend Micro ScanMail for Lotus Domino. The top product in its class over the past five years, ScanMail for Lotus Domino provides a highly reliable, scalable, available and manageable security solution that delivers proven protection with minimal impact on your email infrastructure and administrators.
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Stop viruses, spyware, spam, phishing, and inappropriate content at the mail server—the central point of inspection for internal communications plus inbound mail beyond the gateway. ScanMail for Microsoft Exchange delivers industry-leading mail server security with new technologies to combat zero-day threats, image spam, and spyware. ScanMail is optimized for all versions of Exchange, including Exchange Server 2007, minimizing server impact and IT cost. Tighter integration with the Microsoft platform and management tools help streamline administration.
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Protect your desktops, laptops, and network servers with OfficeScan™, comprehensive security against today’s complex, blended threats and Web-based attacks. New Web Reputation protects your clients - on and off the network - by blocking access to and from malicious sites. OfficeScan also delivers improved virus and spyware protection, new anti-rootkit, variant detection, plus malware and remnant removal.
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Trend Micro Email Reputation Services stop up to 80 percent of spam at its source—before it can hit the gateway and flood the messaging infrastructure. As the only email reputation service to offer an administration console, these services offer access to real-time global spam reports with the option to actively manage spam and blended email threats if desired.
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Win the battle against email threats with Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security Appliance. It protects your network by integrating award-winning antivirus with zero-day protection, powerful anti-spam, and anti-phishing along with content filtering for compliance and data security. This high-throughput appliance with hardware redundancy is delivered on a single, highly scalable platform with centralized management, providing easy deployment and continuous, comprehensive email security at the gateway.
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Protect your Internet gateway, mail and network servers, storage systems, desktops and laptops with Trend Micro™ NeatSuite™ Advanced, a fully integrated, centrally managed security suite designed to stop Web-based attacks, spyware, spam, blended threats, and other malware. NeatSuite Advanced scales to meet the needs of your enterprise, offering extensive configuration options, maximum administrative efficiency, support for the broadest range of operating systems, and tighter integration with Microsoft and Cisco technologies.
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The contemporary corporate network is a very different place from that of just a few years ago, and this is transforming how we approach network security. In the past, networks had clearly defined perimeters on which a protective barrier could be built. Today, a typical network may host multiple sub networks – with laptop, smartphone and PDA users – forming intersecting and constantly shifting perimeters. The corporate network is now a dynamic open space without rigid structures, which leads to a whole new set of security challenges. With this in mind, Kaspersky Lab has developed Kaspersky Open Space Security.
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Kaspersky Security for Mail Server is a solution that protects mail servers and groupware servers from malicious programs and spam. The product includes applications that protect all popular mail servers, including Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes/Domino, Sendmail, Qmail, Postfix and Exim. The solution can also be used to set up a dedicated mail gateway.
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Kaspersky Anti-Virus for MIMEsweeper integrates tightly with Clearswift MIMEsweeper to provide antivirus scanning and disinfection of incoming and outgoing traffic that passes through the security software.
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Kaspersky Anti-Spam provides thorough and accurate protection from spam for users of corporate mail systems and public email services.
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Websense Email Security software provides comprehensive content filtering for continuous protection against inbound and outbound email threats including spam, viruses, blended threats, data loss, and regulatory violations. Industry-leading threat detection technology and expertise are complemented by simple-to-use monitoring and reporting to provide a high level of control and visibility. Companies can defend against the full spectrum of email threats to reduce business risk, enable business compliance, and ensure business continuity.
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Websense Hosted Email Security provides protection at the internet level, eliminating spam and malware before they reach your network. The hosted deployment model provides centralized security with built-in redundancy, failover, and business continuity, while easing administration and optimizing network operating and capacity planning costs. Guaranteed by industry-leading SLAs, Hosted Email Security reduces business costs, eliminates the complexity and uncertainty of managing email threats, and provides the highest possible degree of protection.
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Secure Mail Edge sits at the network perimeter and can instantly drop unwanted emails and messages at very high rates of speed before they hit the email servers. Secure Mail Edge uses TrustedSource, Secure Computing’s best-in-class reputation system, to allow orreject email before it even reaches your critical mail servers.
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Secure Computing is a global leader in Enterprise Security solutions. Powered by our TrustedSourceTM technology, our award-winning solutions proactively protect our customers' mission-critical business applications from all manner of Internet-borne threats. Our comprehensive portfolio of Secure Web, Secure Mail, Secure Firewall, and Secure SafeWord solutions provide unmatched protection for the enterprise. Secure Computing is proud to be the security solutions provider to many of the most mission-critical and sensitive environments in the world.
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BorderWare is the benchmark provider of messaging security, privacy and compliance solutions for enterprises of all sizes and governments worldwide to mitigate the risks associated with today’s converging threat landscape.
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Trend Micro is a leader in network antivirus and Internet content security software and services. The Tokyo-based corporation has its European headquarters in Marlow, England, and business units worldwide. Trend Micro products are sold through corporate, value-added resellers and managed service providers.
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Anti-spam laws baffle UK.biz Businesses are in the dark over anti-spam laws, with 83 per cent ignorant of legislation aimed at stopping junk emails, a new survey has revealed. The research, conducted by software firm Clearswift, found that although just 16 per cent of businesses were aware of laws against spam, a massive 92 per cent felt current rules were not tough enough to stop unwanted emails.
The UK government introduced anti-spam measures last year, after complaints from small firms t......
[more] News beats porn online A quarter of employees admit to surfing obsession Employees are far more likely to be addicted to news than to pornography, a survey has found.
Websense, a San Diego-based firm which provides software to monitor web habits at work, has found that news sites are proving the real internet addiction for employees.
It has to be said, of course, that most companies block access to porn sites.
Just over 20% of those surveyed said that they thought news was the most ad......
[more] The most annoying spam of 2002 Every person on the net has one thing in common. They all hate spam.
Anyone who has an e-mail account will have received these unsolicited commercial messages that offer you things you do not want, at prices you will not pay, from companies you will never call.
2002 was a bumper year for these messages and now 30% of all mail flying around the net is thought to be spam.
Filtering firm Surf Control has compiled a list of the top 10 most annoying spam me......
[more] Spammers and virus writers unite Spammers are turning to tactics favoured by virus writers to get their unwanted messages into circulation. Anti-spam activists have found that some unscrupulous spammers are hijacking the e-mail accounts of innocent users to send millions of messages.
The spammers take over the accounts using malicious e-mail messages that resemble computer viruses.
As efforts to beat spam accelerate, many junk marketers are keen to cover their tracks and hide the real o......
[more] Spam virus 'hijacks' computers Spammers are sending out viruses that take over people's computers and turn them into junk mail machines, say experts. It is a worrying new development in the ongoing war against spam and could see a huge rise in the amount of unsolicited messages in inboxes worldwide.
In a worst case scenario, it could overwhelm the entire internet system warn experts.
UK spam filtering firm MessageLabs has found what it believes is the first example of a virus that has be......
[more] Spam fuels boom in secure content market Junk mail is an increasing problem but the search for an effective cure remains fraught with difficulties. That's the message we take from a slew of recent surveys on the subject.
Market watcher IDC predicts that anti-spam products will be a key driver for the secure content management (SCM) software market which it expects to grow by 19 per cent a year to reach $6.4 billion in 2007.
"Virus infection is still the main concern regarding corporate......
[more] 'Good' worm, new bug mean double trouble A "good" Internet worm and a new malicious mass-mailing computer virus are creating an enormous amount of network traffic, slowing some corporate systems, security experts said Tuesday. The Internet worm--called MSBlast.D, W32.Welchia or W32/Nachi--started compromising computers Monday and has overwhelmed some corporate networks with its aggressive scans for vulnerable hosts. Meanwhile, a new variant of the mass-mailing Sobig virus, called W32/SoBig.F, to......
[more] Blaster variant could alter internet security tactics "Good Samaritan" variant of last week's Blaster worm has sparked speculation that the worm could pave the way for a new breed of proactive security on the internet. But, in the meantime, users whose PCs have been infected with the variant have spent the past 48 hours frantically updating systems and vetting laptops. The variant searches for Windows 2000 and XP machines which have not been updated with the Microsoft patch needed to prevent Bla......
[more] Microsoft tweaks, new laws won't make '04 safer Looking back at security issues of 2003 and ahead to 2004 For computer security experts, 2003 started with the Slammer Internet worm and went downhill from there. The year, which included four major worm and virus outbreaks just in August, has been labeled the "year of the worm" and "the worst year ever" by more than one computer security expert.
All that activity meant good news for antivirus software companies, such as Symantec. It was bad ne......
[more] Junk e-mail 'costs an hour a day' British workers spend up to an hour a day clearing their inboxes of junk e-mails, according to research. Personal messages between staff are also eating into work time at small firms, the survey suggested.
The University of Nottingham study said almost all office workers are affected by the daily arrival of unsolicited and unwanted e-mails.
It also found that almost half of small firms continued to favour face-to-face meetings above conference calls.......
[more] Microsoft aims to make spammers pay Despite efforts to stem the billions of spam e-mails flooding inboxes, unwanted messages are still turning e-mail into a quagmire of misery. Spammers send out tens of millions of e-mails to unsuspecting computer users every day, employing a myriad of methods to ensure their pills, loans and "requests for our lord" pleas fox e-mail filters.
Some are even turning to prose and poetry to fool the technological safeguards people put in place.
But a group o......
[more] EU anti-spam laws are OK It's just over a month since new anti-spam legislation was introduced into the UK with almost universal condemnation that the new laws would have a limited effect in the fight against junk email. The £5,000 fine for offenders has been branded by some experts as an "inadequate deterrent". And even those who've welcomed the new legislation - which is part of an EU-wide directive - doubt it will have any real impact on combating spam.
For although there is one EU anti-s......
[more] Spammers not deterred by Can Spam Act As expected, spammers don't seem too impressed with the US Can Spam Act, which was enforced on January 1. Nor have they changed their tactics. The US Can Spam Act attempts to regulate rather than ban the practice of spamming, but it outlaws so-called fraudulent spam, where spammers use open relays/proxies to send their messages. Falsified email headers can now also be punished with prison terms, as can sending sexually-oriented email which is not properly l......
[more] Spam with Trojan horse attacks eBay users Virus authors are using spam e-mails containing a Trojan horse program to help spread the latest version of the Mimail e-mail worm. The latest threat, which targets customers of eBay's PayPal online payment service, highlights a growing trend in which online criminals combine computer viruses, spam distribution techniques, Trojan horse programs and "phishing" scams to circumvent security technology and fool internet users, said Carole Theriault, securi......
[more] Sophos beats rivals in VeriTest analysis Sophos Anti-Virus provides most frequent virus updates, fastest scanning speed and shortest installation time Sophos, a world leader in anti-virus and anti-spam protection for businesses, today announced that in a competitive analysis of enterprise anti-virus applications conducted by VeriTest, a division of Lionbridge Technologies, Sophos Anti-Virus led competitor solutions in several key areas including most frequent virus updates in both manual and aut......
[more] New Bagle worm spreads over internet disguised as Calculator, warns Sophos Sophos, a world leader in protecting businesses against spam and viruses, is warning of a new worm called Bagle-A (W32/Bagle-A). Following many reports in Australia, Sophos has already started to see multiple reports coming from the UK and other countries, and users are advised to be cautious of emails received over the weekend with the subject line "Hi".
The Bagle-A worm (also known as Beagle) arrives as an email me......
[more] You say 'bagle,' I say 'beagle' Antivirus technicians said Wednesday that "Bagle," the latest e-mail virus to hit global computer users, was in decline and no longer considered a major threat. Antivirus technicians said Wednesday that "Bagle," the latest e-mail virus to hit global computer users, was in decline and no longer considered a major threat.
But as the contagion runs its course, some are asking whether there might be a better way of naming such viruses so as to alert the public.......
[more] Spam may be wiped out by 2006 Internet users beware -- within a couple of years you may have fewer opportunities to reduce your debt or increase your penis size Unwanted "spam" offers currently account for more than half of all e-mail traffic, but at least two high-tech executives say the torrent of pornography and unbelievably low mortgage rates could slow to a trickle by 2006.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates predicted the demise of unsolicited commercial e-mail at the World Economic Forum in D......
[more] 'Clean up this Internet effluent now' Messagelabs CTO Mark Sunner claims that ISPs allowing unfiltered traffic to flow to customers is like a water authority pumping out raw sewage We are losing the malware war. Conventional antivirus and anti-spam countermeasures seem ineffective against an increasingly sophisticated enemy. The argument is that server- and client-side solutions draw the battle lines far too deeply inside their own territory, robbing computing, bandwidth and other resources. Wha......
[more] City sees the benefits of wireless networks Survey shows more businesses are convinced but security is still lax The third annual Wireless Security Survey of London has highlighted a significant increase in the use of wireless networks by businesses.
In the two years since the survey was first undertaken, the number of wireless networks used in the City has increased from 124 in 2001, to 328 in 2002 and 1078 in 2003.
The benefits of the technology appear to have convinced companies, and th......
[more] Hackers capitalizing on Mydoom's success The worm opens a back door which hacker's could exploit to reap further damage The back door to computer systems opened by the Mydoom e-mail worm is turning into a bonanza for thousands of hackers, who are scanning the Internet furiously for systems infected by Mydoom, antivirus experts said Wednesday.
The opening in the defenses of infected computers could allow malicious hackers to secretly install a Trojan horse program, keylogging software or simp......
[more] Worst virus ever All eyes were on security as a fast-moving e-mail virus claimed the crown as the worst ever, and along the way it managed to make enemies of two software heavyweights MyDoom raced onto the Internet on Monday, quickly clogging e-mail servers, as it propagated itself with millions of messages laden with malicious software code. The virus arrived with one of several different random subject lines, such as "Mail Delivery System," "Test" or "Mail Transaction Failed."
Once the vir......
[more] MyDoom Virus Continues to Double The number of MyDoom virus infections continues to double and appears to show no signs of slowing down, according to the latest report from mi2g Intelligence unit (mi2g.net), a digital risk firm.
The MyDoom virus, which first appeared on Monday and has spawned a second variant, disguises itself as a returned email and contains an executable attachment that is meant to look like a text-file attachment.
Mi2g said today that the millions of backdoors which......
[more] Mydoom cripples US firm's website The Mydoom e-mail worm has paralysed the website of US software firm SCO, in a massive denial of service attack The company - which owns the Unix operating system - said the virus was "overwhelming the internet with requests to www.sco.com".
Both SCO and Microsoft have offered $250,000 rewards each for help to catch the author of the worm - the fastest-spreading virus known so far.
A variant of the virus is expected to attack Microsoft's site from Tuesda......
[more] Spam, scam, spoof and spyware: beware epidemic in Internet empire Spam, the circulation of unwanted electronic messages, is dangerous and expensive for businesses and individuals and is growing uncontrollably on an epidemic scale So says an official report prepared for an OECD-EU meeting on Monday and Tuesday. Confidence in the entire environment of Internet communications and electronic commerce is at risk.
A simple answer is not at hand, says the report which has just been declassified by......
[more] Governments must act together to curb spam Only coordinated action by governments can curb the alarming rise in unsolicited bulk e-mails, or spam, a high-level seminar in Brussels was told. The two-day meeting, organised by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the European Commission (news - web sites), was being held after the Mydoom e-mail worm infected more than one million computers around the world.
Mydoom underlined the vulnerability of computer systems......
[more] MyDoom sparks talks of security's future MyDoom could spell the end of some security technologies The virus, which has combined many old attack techniques into a successful package, was hardly blunted by antivirus programs during the first few hours of its exponential spread.
That's a problem, said Shlomo Touboul, CEO of security software maker Finjan Software.
"The MyDoom attack should never have propagated so far into the Internet," he said. "It is obvious that we need another layer (of......
[more] MyDoom Author: "Sorry" A variant of the virus has a cryptic message in which the author appears to apologize for creating the infection The MyDoom variant that joined the original virus in wreaking havoc on the Internet last week contains a cryptic message in which the author appears to apologize for the malicious code, security experts say.
The creator of what anti-virus experts say is the fastest spreading virus ever on the Internet signed MyDoom and MyDoom.B with "andy," and left the follow......
[more] EC draws line in spam sand The EC is calling for greater international co-operation in combating spam Speaking at this week's OECD workshop on spam in Brussels, Commissioner Erkki Liikanen said the OECD should "rapidly agree" a five-point framework to promote effective legislation against spam. This programme calls for co-operation between enforcement agencies, self-regulation by industry, technical measures, legislative action and greater consumer awareness.
The OECD workshop on spam coinci......
[more] Shoppers spend less online because of spam Experts says spam is hurting online businesses and could stunt the Internet economy's growth The exponential growth of unsolicited junk email -- spam -- is shaking consumer confidence in the Internet and may hamper growth of the e-economy, officials have told a global anti-spam meeting.
A survey published by consumers group the Trans-Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) showed 52 percent of respondents were shopping less on the Internet or not at all b......
[more] Spam Slayer: Be Wary of Opting In New laws offer some protection, but they can't save you from yourself Opting in" to receive commercial e-mail that might interest you seems harmless enough. But it can turn the trickle of spam in your in-box into a torrent. A huge volume of spam, regardless of new antispam laws, still plagues e-mail users. Sharon Lewis is one example.
"I spend about an hour every day deleting spam," Lewis says.
I found Lewis and others like her through opt-in e-mail lists,......
[more] Zipped Files Can Zap Antivirus Apps Compressed folders can hide worms, viruses, and more, experts warn E-mail users who were slow to update their antivirus software last week may have been surprised to receive a flood of e-mail messages containing .zip files from long lost acquaintances, business partners, and complete strangers.
The e-mail was sent by the recent Mydoom e-mail worm. The .zip attachments were evidence of what antivirus experts say is a new trend in virus writing circles: u......
[more] Clueless office workers help spread computer viruses Busy or apathetic employees are accelerating the spread of viruses and potentially costing UK businesses millions in clean-up charges, according to a survey out today Two-thirds of the 1,000 people quizzed by market researchers TNS in January admit they are not aware of even the most basic virus prevention measures. Meanwhile a third of those polled in the Novell-sponsored study said they are too busy to check their emails before opening them.......
[more] US anti-spam law fails to bite US legislation designed to stem the tide of junk e-mails has had little impact on spam, say experts US e-mail filtering firm Postini said the Can-Spam Act had only made a slight dent in the amount of unwanted mail.
It found spam accounted for 79% of all e-mails it processed in January, down from 80% in December 2003.
Critics of the US law had predicted it would do little to stop spam and may even encourage some businesses to start sending unsolicited messag......
[more] Fast-Moving Virus Intercepted Over Four Million Times In Only 9 Days MailWatch, a leading spam-blocking, virus-scanning and content-filtering service protecting corporate networks worldwide, today announced the total, and most frequently occurring virus threats it intercepted on behalf of its corporate customer base during January. The company also announced that it scanned 153 million messages in January for its customers, a 5% increase over December's total.
In January, MailWatch intercep......
[more] IT security: Something's gotta give 2004 is just over a month old but it's already been an eventful year for information security with the MyDoom worm carving its name into the annals as the most malicious code cocktail ever MyDoom demonstrated that with a bit of social engineering, users will always be duped into opening attachments. Once in progress, MyDoom launched an avalanche of e-mails clogging networks and servers while interrupting business productivity. It then launched denial-of-servic......
[more] Adware ploy dupes IMers with bin Laden 'news' Beware of instant messages bearing news of Osama bin Laden's capture Several victims told CNET News.com on Wednesday that a new Trojan horse advertising program, called BuddyLinks, masquerades as a news Web site with a story on the al-Qaida leader's capture in an attempt to fool users of America Online's instant-messaging program into downloading software and receiving advertising.
Although the software has some of the properties of an Internet w......
[more] Spam seen as security risk Spam is definitely annoying, but corporate customers also see it as a potential security risk, according to a survey released Wednesday The study, commissioned by security software maker Network Associates, surveyed 356 small to large organizations in North America. Questions focused on the effects of unwanted e-mail in the corporate environment.
About 90 percent of companies surveyed agreed that spam makes their companies more vulnerable to security threats. Beca......
[more] MyDoom dies today Ding dong the wicked worm is dead MyDoom-A is programmed to stop spreading today, marking the end of arguably the worst email-borne viral epidemic to date.
MessageLabs, the email filtering firm, blocked the virus 43,979,281 times in the two weeks since its first appearance in late January. At the height of the epidemic, one in 12 emails the firm scanned were viral.
At the height of the Sobig-F pandemic last August one in 17 emails scanned by MessageLabs were viral. Mes......
[more] Anti-spam scam mimics official site An apparently official Web site promising to reduce spam may itself be collecting email addresses for spammers, the US Federal Trade Commission has warned Consumers should not submit their email addresses to a Web site that promises to reduce unwanted "spam'' because it is fraudulent, the US Federal Trade Commission said on Thursday.
Though the Web site, found at www.unsub.us, promises to reduce unsolicited commercial email, those who sign up could end up......
[more] UK workers 'virus-blind' The average UK worker is too busy or too complacent to watch out for and cope with viruses, according to research from Novell They either claim they don't have time to worry about checking each email before they open it, or they don't see any reason to bother.
It's alarming, but not all that surprising. For years, security firms have warned that users sticking passwords on sticky notes by their computers are creating a security hazard. Walk through any office and you......
[more] Employees pass buck on security Most UK employees are unwilling to take any responsibility for securing their work computers, a recent survey has found. If this situation continues, computer attacks will increase rapidly this year, experts warned.
Nine out of 10 office staff feel they have no part to play in protecting their machines, according to a survey by Novell. They said the responsibility rested with their employer's IT department, Microsoft or the government.
Of 1,000 respondents,......
[more] US spammer fined £75k for porn sting A US company has been fined £75,000 for spamming punters with porn emails that led to users racking up whopping phone bills.
The spam sent by New York-based BW Telecom contained peak-rate dialler software which disconnected users from their ISP before reconnecting them to a service that charged them £1.50 a minute for Net access.
UK premium-rate services regulator ICSTIS found that the email containing the Ts&Cs and dialler software was confusing.......
[more] No coffee, but here's another Bagle A variant of the mass-mailing Bagle virus started spreading Tuesday, as U.S. businesses returned from the long weekend Like the original virus, Bagle.B spreads by sending an e-mail message with an attached copy of its code; a PC is infected when the recipient opens the attachment. The virus, which is programmed to stop spreading Feb. 25, installs software on a person's PC to allow Bagle.B's creator to take control of the computer.
While the current variant......
[more] China Cracks Down on Spammers Authorities want to block more than porn and pitches, while feeling pressure to stop spam sent from China. The Chinese government is ratcheting up its efforts to fight unsolicited e-mail in a campaign with a distinctly political flavor, but officials face an uphill battle controlling spam.
The Ministry of Public Security (MPS) has announced a joint campaign with the country's Ministry of Education (MOE) and Ministry of Information Industry (MII) to end spam in......
[more] Your computer could be a 'spam zombie' Next time you're looking for a culprit for all that junk mail flooding your inbox, have a glance in the mirror. Spammers are increasingly exploiting home computers with high-speed Internet connections into which they've cleverly burrowed.
E-mail security companies estimate that between one-third and two-thirds of unwanted messages are relayed unwittingly by PC owners who set up software incorrectly or fail to secure their machines.
David Lawrence, 4......
[more] F-Secure Antivirus Sales Record High During The Last Quarter of 2003 F-Secure reported revenues of 10.8 million euros for the 4th quarter of 2003 and 39.0m for the full year. The operating result was EUR 1.3 million positive for the fourth quarter. For the full year of 2003 the operating result was EUR 1.5 million positive and Profit Before Tax 4.3 m positive. The antivirus sales were record high and revenues increased by 40% in Q4 and by 21% in 2003. The good progress was due to positive develo......
[more] 'Gamer's virus' aims to hit users A miserable month for Microsoft is continuing with warnings about yet another Windows worm. Anti-virus companies have issued alerts about Bagle.B that is starting to appear in large numbers.
Like many other recent viruses it harvests addresses from the popular Outlook e-mail program and sends messages using its own e-mail engine.
Bagle.B also installs a backdoor in infected machines that could gives some remote control over compromised PCs.
New virus......
[more] Hefty fine for X-rated spam scam A US-based firm has landed a hefty fine for sending XXX junk e-mails to thousands in the UK. The unsolicited messages came with a sexually explicit attachment. When opened, users thought a "click me" button would close it.
Instead it led them to a site accessed through a premium rate phone number.
The UK's premium rate watchdog, Icstis, had more than 1,000 complaints about the e-mails and said the company breached a number of regulations.
Users were c......
[more] AOL, EarthLink File Lawsuits Against Spammers Two of the nation's largest Internet service providers (ISPs) filed civil actions against bulk e-mailers Thursday to combat the continuing spam flooding ISP servers.
Dulles, Va.-based America Online (AOL) filed a $1.6 million civil law suit in Florida, claiming that a software firm conspired with international spammers based in Thailand to deliver more than 35 million spam messages to AOL subscribers.
In a separate action, Atlanta-based Eart......
[more] At the Front in the Virus Wars When F-Secure's antivirus researcher Katrin Tocheva first spotted the MyDoom virus late in the evening of Jan. 27, she immediately reached out and smacked the monkey that sits near her desk. The monkey is a stuffed toy that screams when hit. F-Secure's antivirus team uses it as an alert signal; when the monkey starts screeching, the team knows there's a new virus or worm on the loose.
The monkey screamed an awful lot in January and February 2004, and there were......
[more] Perhaps latest virus was meant to send message Nothing stirs controversy better than issues with conflicting arguments. So why do viruses seem so controversial? Users, legitimate software developers, IT professionals and just about everybody else are basically on the same side of the fence. They don't like viruses. It's just a matter of how much ill sentiment each person feels. Is it just an inconvenience -- or a major problem?
The public at large doesn't really understand the motives behind......
[more] EU's anti-spam laws in chaos It was supposed to tackle spam but is turning into a laughing stock. A study by the Institute of Information Law (IViR) at the University of Amsterdam has revealed that the EU’s much-vaunted anti-spam legislation, Directive 58, is fast turning into a legislative disaster.
The Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications, to give it its full name, was supposed to have been adopted by EU member states by October 2003, but according to the IViR, only 7 of 15 h......
[more] Sophos Announces Opening of North American Virus Lab Sophos, a world leader in anti-virus and anti-spam protection for businesses, today announced the opening of its North American virus lab. Sophos currently operates full-time virus labs in the United Kingdom and Australia and a spam lab in Vancouver, Canada. With the addition of its Lynnfield, MA-based virus lab, Sophos will be able to further extend protection for its customers worldwide.
As the threat of viruses continues to escalate alo......
[more] Sophos Joins Microsoft Virus Information Alliance Sophos, a world leader in protecting businesses against spam and viruses, today announced that it has joined the Virus Information Alliance, an industry initiative founded by Microsoft Corp. and consisting of ten leading anti-virus vendors. The alliance aims to provide Microsoft customers with accurate and relevant information about the latest virus threats affecting Microsoft technology.
As part of the initiative, virus researchers in Sophos l......
[more] Hi-tech criminals target UK firms British businesses are under siege by criminals and vandals using technology for financial gain or to cause havoc. A survey by the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit found 83% of UK companies have been the victims of computer crime.
The vast majority, 77%, were virus attacks and, on average, companies face 254 assaults from malicious programs every year.
Other computer crimes reported in the study included fraud, theft of key data and denial-of-service attacks......
[more] Latest MyDoom picking up pace Security experts issued fresh alerts over a new, file-deleting version of the MyDoom e-mail worm that was targeting computer users with greater ferocity on Wednesday. The new outbreak, known as MyDoom.F, emerged late last week and has been gathering steam since then.
The virus is programmed to infect personal computers and use them to unleash a crippling digital barrage known as a denial-of-service attack on select Web sites belonging to Microsoft and the Record......
[more] Is security getting any easier? Although governments and companies appear to be making significant headway on many security problems, don't expect headaches like spam to disappear anytime soon, according to security experts. Human error, combined with the increasing technical sophistication of malicious hackers, creates a situation in which security, ultimately, can never be perfect, security specialists on the cryptographer's panel at the RSA Conference here said Tuesday.
Invariably, indiv......
[more] Row over how to junk spam Microsoft is proposing to stop spam by checking that messages are being sent by the person they claim to come from. The Caller-ID for e-mail idea is one of several proposals floated as a way to stem the rising tide of junk mail.
The internet's engineering body has set up an emergency meeting to sift through the different proposals and draw up a network-wide solution.
But some fear the competing proposals could cause confusion and spell the end of some widely-use......
[more] Variant of NetSky virus takes flight A new computer worm dubbed NetSky.D was clogging e-mail systems around the world after emerging Monday, a security expert said. The worm is particularly difficult to root out, because it lands in e-mail boxes using a number of different subject lines, such as "re: details" or "re: here is the document."
"It arrives with an attached PIF (program information file) file, and it's already extremely widespread," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant......
[more] Spam's 'dirty dozen' exposed The United States, Canada, China, South Korea and the Netherlands are the top five birthplaces of spam worldwide, according to a new analysis by security software maker Sophos. In an analysis of junk e-mails received over two days in mid-February, the company created a list of the "dirty dozen" spam-producing countries.
Taking the undisputed helm on its list of spam-producing countries is the United States, which accounted for more than half of the world's unsoli......
[more] Lawmakers Launch New Anti-Spyware Bill Two champions of last year's Can Spam Act have introduced legislation in Congress to outlaw invasive software such as spyware and adware from being secretly installed on computers.
Currently, these type of programs often piggyback on downloaded files without the user's consent, transmitting information about Internet traffic patterns and generating pop-up advertisements.
Known as Spyblock (Software Principles Yielding Better Levels of Consumer Know......
[more] Antispam Registries Aren't Official FTC warns that private do-not-spam sites are ineffective at best and scams at worst. While the Federal Trade Commission investigates setting up a national do-not-spam registry, new private sites are claiming to keep users spam-free now--but they lack the force of law.
The recently enacted CAN-SPAM law exhorts the FTC to consider the feasibility of a national, government-sponsored do-not-spam registry similar to its recent Do Not Call Registry restricting te......
[more] Overeager Spam Filters Cause Headaches ISPs struggle to get off AOL's blacklist when spam-blocking methods turn heavy-handed. Major ISPs are struggling to protect their customers from a growing wave of spam, but overzealous blocking can be a nuisance too, as several small ISPs have found.
Technicians for TDS Telecom, a Midwestern ISP, scrambled last week when America Online began blasting back all e-mail to AOL subscribers from TDS's 100,000 subscribers. The problem continued for days, exaspe......
[more] UUNet tops spammer-hosting super league UUNet hosts more spammers than any other ISP. It has 151 listings on the Spammers Block List (SBL), including 34 known spam gangs with ROKSO records, according to the anti-spam organisation Spamhaus' records for February 2004. The second worst offender, Chinanet-QD, has 82 entries on the SBL. It hosts Alan Ralsky, listed as the single worst spammer on the ROKSO list.
Banning unsolicited commercial email is a simple matter, Spamhaus says. it has example......
[more] Spam's irritating cousin, spim, on the loose Consumers ditching e-mail for instant messages to avoid spam are in for an unpleasant surprise. Spim, or instant-messenger spam, is peppering computer screens with increasing frequency. And the problem may get worse as e-mail marketers look for new ways to reach consumers after a federal crackdown on spam.
More than 1 billion spims were sent last year - roughly four times the amount sent in 2002. Another 4 billion are expected in 2004, Ferris Resea......
[more] Sophos joins Microsoft Virus Information Alliance (VIA) Sophos, a world leader in protecting businesses against spam and viruses, today announced that it has joined the Virus Information Alliance, an industry initiative founded by Microsoft Corp. and consisting of ten leading anti-virus vendors. The alliance aims to provide Microsoft customers with accurate and relevant information about the latest virus threats affecting Microsoft technology.
As part of the initiative, virus researchers in......
[more] Through the security looking glass The annual RSA Conference, which just concluded in San Francisco, is the technology industry's premier security event. After covering a half-dozen RSA conferences in the 1990s (including several for CNET News.com), I returned this year for the first time since 1999. Talk about a time warp.
As cybersecurity has become an ever larger concern, the data security industry has mushroomed. But although the lingo has changed from the prespam days, you can divide th......
[more] Competing technologies could shake up e-mail Microsoft’s announcement at the RSA Conference last week of a host of initiatives to stop unsolicited commercial e-mail, or spam, highlighted some tectonic shifts taking place in the once staid world of Internet messaging. The company’s new e-mail authentication architecture, known as "Caller ID," is being met with cautious acceptance. However, Microsoft will probably not have the last word on secure e-mail, and a shake-out of antispam solutions backe......
[more] Virus-fighting needs better boundaries: Sophos A tightening up of the standards applying to MIME boundaries — which separate parts of an email — would help fight viruses, suggests Paul Ducklin, Sydney-based head of technology for the Asia-Pacific region for Sophos.
And some of the filters themselves could probably do with a re-examination as to how they handle the boundaries.
Some messages do not properly separate the text of an email from an attachment. A filter may erroneously pass the a......
[more] Earthlink to test sender authentication ISP (Internet service provider) Earthlink Inc. will soon begin testing new e-mail security technology, including Microsoft Corp.'s recently released Caller ID technology, a company executive said.
Earthlink will be experimenting "very soon," with "sender authentication" technology including Caller ID and a similar plan called Sender Policy Framework (SPF). The Atlanta-based ISP will be evaluating other e-mail security proposals as well, but is not bac......
[more] Spammers target home PCs You may hate getting spam but unless you are careful you could be responsible for sending some of it. It is estimated that at least one-third of all junk mail messages is being relayed by home computers.
And to make matters worse your humble home PC was probably turned into a spam-spewing relay by one or more computer viruses.
Computer viruses have come a long way since the days when they were just a nuisance put together by a teenager with too much time on their......
[more] First Can Spam Suit Filed A California ISP filed suit Friday in the first action under the recently enacted federal Can Spam Act, naming BobVila.com as the defendant. San Francisco attorney John Fallat filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on behalf of Foster City-based Internet Service Provider Hypertouch. It alleges Sacramento-based BlueStream Media and Boston-based BVWebTies, owner of BobVila.com, violated the federal Can Spam Act by sending Hypertouch......
[more] Competing Technologies Shake Up E-Mail How will rival authentication schemes change the way we communicate online? Microsoft's recent announcement of a host of initiatives to stop unsolicited commercial e-mail, or spam, highlighted some tectonic shifts taking place in the once staid world of Internet messaging. The company's announcement was made at the RSA Conference, a leading annual meeting on electronic data security that was held in San Francisco late last month.
Caller ID
The company's......
[more] Spam is 10 Today marks the tenth anniversary of what is generally considered the first spam message. On this day in 1994, US law firm Canter and Siegel posted a message on several Usenet newsgroups advertising its services to people interested in participating in the US Green Card lottery.
These days we'd barely bat an eyelid at such a message but at the time it was considered as appalling breach of "netiquette" - the unspoken rules of polite behaviour online. It was the cyber equivalent of......
[more] Antivirus industry slammed by DTI report Companies still get viruses despite having antivirus software - so what is going wrong? The UK government has released research that will make unpleasant reading for some in the antivirus industry.
A survey from the Department of Trade and Industry revealed that 68 per cent of large companies were infected by viruses during 2003, despite the fact that 99 per cent were using antivirus products.
Chris Potter, security analyst at PricewaterhouseCoop......
[more] NetSky, we hardly knew ye The latest variant of the NetSky worm, which is the 11th in less than a month, will be the last, according to a coded message from the worm's author. NetSky.K was discovered on Monday, and security researchers found an unexpected message from the author within its code; although the authors of NetSky, Bagle and MyDoom have been engaged in a flame war for the past couple of weeks, this latest variant differs because it not only contains the usual insults to other virus......
[more] Comcast cutting off spam 'zombies' Internet service provider Comcast Corp. is cutting off Internet service for some customers whose computers are being used to relay spam messages, according to a company spokeswoman. Comcast has been contacting customers whose machines are being used as "zombies" to forward spam e-mail with warning messages. In some cases, the company has cut off Internet access to customers, some of whom are unaware their system is sending out the commercial solicitations, sai......
[more] Major ISPs to Stand Firm on Anti-Spam Fight Looking to show a unified front against spam, the nation's top e-mail and Internet service providers -- America Online, EarthLink, Microsoft, and Yahoo! -- are expected to outline their efforts in stopping unwanted e-mail at its source.
Representatives from the coalition are scheduled to appear at a press conference Wednesday morning in Washington D.C. to talk about their collaborative efforts. The coalition is based on an anti-spam industry allia......
[more] We're just innocent techies, say accused spammers Lawyers for a Florida firm accused of inundating AOL users with spam have hit back with a motion seeking to dismiss the lawsuit.
According to dismissal papers filed yesterday, AOL's lawsuit against Connor Miller Software in Orlando federal court is "essentially the same" as a case "dismissed" by a Virginia judge last December.
The defendants' lawyer, Seth Berenzweig of law firm Albo & Oblon, says that Judge Claude Hilton of Virginia "con......
[more] India and Pakistan: A virtual peace For many in India, the Internet is one abiding indicator of the way in which India-Pakistan relations are progressing. For most of the history of interactions between the two neighbors, the virtual forces (since they came into existence in the late 1990s) in the two countries have been ranged at opposing ends. They have taken the form of spamming, abusive graffiti, and hacking key sites, as well as defacing others. For example, during the height of the Kargil......
[more] MyDoom's spread sparks antivirus critique Antivirus technologies need to change because they fail to limit viruses during the crucial first hours of an epidemic, experts say. MyDoom could spell the end of some security technologies.
The virus, which has combined many old attack techniques into a successful package, was hardly blunted by antivirus programs during the first few hours of its exponential spread.
That's a problem, said Shlomo Touboul, chief executive of security software make......
[more] Microsoft to announce legal, technical antispam plans Company will announce lawsuits against spammers under the U.S. Can-Spam Act Microsoft Corp., along with other Internet industry players, is due to announce Wednesday lawsuits against spammers under the U.S.' so-called Can-Spam Act, and will detail a technical initiative aimed at stopping the onslaught of unsolicited e-mail, a company representative revealed.
The lawsuits announced under Can-Spam (Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited P......
[more] Washington Beefs Up Can Spam The two powerful federal agencies empowered as the whip hand of the Can Spam Act began the process Thursday of fully implementing the United States' first national law aimed at curbing unsolicited bulk e-mail.
Since the Can Spam Act became effective on Jan. 1, it has been criticized as ineffective in slowing junk e-mail. But most of the provisions of the new law are still being interpreted and defined by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Federal Communi......
[more] Trojans rise in the virus war Net users are facing a Trojan wave as hackers seek ways into victims' bank accounts.
The war of the worms may have averted attention to the NetSky's, Bagles and MyDooms, but make no mistake, a recent surge of Trojans has its collective eyes on your bank account and personal information.
'There's no doubt that we are seeing an increase in interest amongst the malware writing community
in Trojan horses and hacking into remote computers. It is more and more commo......
[more] Office update clogs spam filters A recent update for Microsoft's Office software is blocking several popular spam filters, and software makers are scr
