New Digital Spam: How Bad Guys Try to Trick You; How to Avoid the Traps

5 February 2012, 8:03 pm

The latest forms of digital spam include clickjacking, junk apps, bad QR codes, and much more. Here's what you can do to stay safe.... Read More »

New DMARC email authentication aims to stop phishing

30 January 2012, 2:17 pm

Email spam has been a problem for even longer than commercial activity has been permitted on the Internet, and thanks to botnet operators, scammers, and outright cybercriminals spam has ballooned to account for the vast majority of all email. Although antispam technologies and filters have improved ... Read More »

SpamExperts Provides Email Security for Netherlands Web Host Hostnet

30 January 2012, 10:33 am

January 30, 2012 -- Email security provider SpamExperts announced on Monday that web host and domain name registrar Hostnet has implemented its inbound and outbound email filtering service on its network. This announcement comes a week after SpamExperts launched its new website in five languages: En... Read More »

Google, Facebook, PayPal and Microsoft join forces to fight phishing

30 January 2012, 9:25 am

Google, PayPal, Facebook, Yahoo and Microsoft, alongside 10 other leading email, security and financial providers, have formed the technical working group, DMARC, in order to reduce email phishing and spam.... Read More »

Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! to fight email spam

30 January 2012, 8:07 am

Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, AOL and Facebook are setting aside their online rivalry to fight a common enemy: email spam and "phishing" attacks.... Read More »

Banks, Internet companies team up to fight spam

29 January 2012, 9:23 pm

BOSTON (Reuters) - Some of the world's biggest Internet companies and financial services firms have developed a new approach to fighting email spam that they hope will reduce online scams. Facebook, Google ...... Read More »

McAfee moves to plug spam email hole

19 January 2012, 3:52 am

The security firm will plug a hole this week in its SaaS for Total Protection software, which was being exploited by scammers to send spam email ( ZDNet UK - Security Management )... Read More »

McAfee software linked to spam email scam

18 January 2012, 3:34 am

The company is investigating reports that its SaaS Endpoint Protection software seems to be allowing computers to serve as proxies for sending spam email ( ZDNet UK - Security Threats )... Read More »

Norman Enhances Email Security Protection Solution

18 January 2012, 3:00 am

FAIRFAX, Va. , Jan. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Norman ASA, a leading network security company, announced today that Norman Email Protection (NEP) 5.1, a high performance email security solution available ...... Read More »

AppRiver Releases 2011 Year-End Spam Report and Presents 2012 Forecast

16 January 2012, 6:00 am

AppRiver, LLC, a leading provider of email messaging and Web security solutions, today released its year-end Threat and Spamscape report, a detailed summary and analysis of spam and malware trends traced over the course of 2011.... Read More »