March of Dimes Entrusts Email Security to FrontBridge Technologies

"FrontBridge Technologies, a leading provider of Total Message Management services, today announced the successful deployment of its award-winning Email Security Suite at the March of Dimes. The March of Dimes relies on email as its most critical communications tool to coordinate volunteer programs and keep its 1,500 employees in touch across 250 offices. The FrontBridge Email Security Suite includes fully managed, perimeter-based services for spam filtering, transport layer encryption, virus scanning, content and policy enforcement and disaster recovery." Source: MarketWire

Case Study: How to Beat the Spam Filters

"Here's a great free resource: www.e-zinecheck.com. Paste the text of your email messages into the online form and the application offers up what to fix. The E-zine Checker helps your e-zine avoid the spam traps by checking for commonly used spam words, words in all capital letters and excessive use of words with symbols in them. Every time an email has a word or phrase that triggers a spam-filtering flag, it adds a penalty point. If your score ranks high, your e-zine is likely to get caught in the spam filters. If your score is low or zero, your e-zine is likely to get delivered into your subscribers' inboxes. The goal is to get a spam score of one or zero." Source: MarketingProfs.com

New Anti Spam Solutions in a Box

"Securence, a leading provider of email filtering (anti-spam, anti-virus software) and Web filtering services that include email protection and security services for small businesses, enterprises and educational and government institutions worldwide, today made available its SecurenceMail email filtering solution in an onsite appliance to organizations that need to manage their message filtering environment in-house based on strict company guidelines." Source: eMediaWire

Developing Nations Losing Spam Battle

"Countries like Malaysia, Nepal and Nigeria lack the bandwidth, technical know-how and financial resources to effectively combat junk e-mail, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said in the report, released this week. The OECD report also outlined a number of recommendations to improve the spam situation in developing nations. It urges ISPs in those countries to invest in spam-filter technology or in third-party filtering, and to adopt strong antispam policies." Source: ZDNET

Hotmail To Issue Warnings in Major Spam Crackdown

"Microsoft safety technology and strategy group general manager Ryan Hamlin says: "Sender ID is a valuable first step in industry efforts to deliver robust authentication technologies. It is already improving our ability to protect customers from unwanted spam and malicious email scams."" Source: TopTechNews

Microsoft Hopes New Spam Tools Will Help ISPs and Bulk Mailers

"In an effort to intensify the fight against spam, Microsoft has announced new tools and services aimed at Internet service providers and bulk e-mailers. The company has launched the MSN Postmaster Web site, an online resource intended to help bulk e-mailers, ISPs, and e-mail service providers understand what`s acceptable for sending to Hotmail users and what will be stopped at the spam gates. Also new is the company`s Smart Network Data Services, which reports on characteristics of e-mail traffic sent to Hotmail, so that ISPs can see how their mail is viewed by the e-mail service." Source: monstersandcritics

Trait-based Bayesian Spam Filtering Engine

"Firetrust Limited, provider of award-winning anti-spam and email security solutions, today announced the latest release of MailWasher Pro 5.0, a popular anti-spam tool which provides both businesses and individuals protection from unsolicited and unwanted emails. MailWasher Pro 5.0 provides users with the power to overcome the tactics employed by spammers through a new trait based Bayesian spam filtering engine which stops spam from invading their email inboxes." Source: emediawire

NEC Offers Free Biglobe Spam Filtering

"NEC plans to launch a free spam filtering service for its Biglobe internet access service customers, reports the Nikkei Business Daily." Soruce: Telecom Paper

Microsoft Delivers New Tools to Reduce Spam

"Microsoft Corp. today announced new MSN® Hotmail® tools and services designed to expand e-mail industry collaboration in fighting spam -- MSN Postmaster and Smart Network Data Services. These new services complement ongoing industry efforts supported by Microsoft, including e-mail authentication mechanisms such as the Sender ID Framework, to help protect MSN Hotmail customers as well as the overall e-mail community from online safety concerns such as spam, phishing and viruses." Source: wwwcoder

New Bayesian Google Result Spam Filter Software

"Spacilus is a Search Engine Assistant for Google that uses Bayesian statistics (like many email spam filters) to categorize search results. Spacilus for Google integrates seamlessly into the Google result pages and automatically marks search results entries as Information, Commercial or Spam based on the users training it." Source: I4U

ISPs to Help Curb Spam?

"Leading Email Defense Company Also Announces Beta Program for MX Logic(R) Sender Reputation Gateway (SRG); Technology Designed to Provide ISPs with Tool to Stop Outbound Email Abuse. MX Logic, Inc., a leading provider of innovative email defense solutions that ensure email protection and security for businesses, service providers, government organizations, resellers and their customers, today applauded Federal Trade Commission (FTC) efforts to encourage Internet service providers (ISPs) to take steps to stop outbound email abuse." Source: TMCnet

ISPCON Spring 2005 Exhibitor Profiles

"BlueTie's patented software gives Service Providers the ability to offer their end users a complete, secure, web-based email solution that includes spam filtering and virus protection, along with collaborative business necessities like shared contacts, calendars, files and instant messaging -- all under their own brand. BlueTie has received industry accolades including being named a Forbes Magazine "Best of the Web" company in 2002, 2003 and 2004." Source: TMCnet

FrontBridge Broadens European Operations

"Built upon a state-of-the-art network architecture, FrontBridge's messaging services deploy advanced techniques for filtering unwanted message content that is supported by continuous management services. The network provides a front line of defence and a protective bridge between the Internet and customer networks, filtering inbound and outbound email traffic, blocking unsolicited inbound email, cleaning all traffic for viruses and other malicious content, and protecting customer's email infrastructure from external attacks and threats. Its comprehensive Total Message Management portfolio includes services for spam filtering, virus scanning, policy and content enforcement, message archiving and encrypted email." Source: Bob's Guide

Hormel Back on The Spam Offensive

"Anti-spam software manufacturers may be in for a rude awakening. Hormel Foods Corporation and Hormel Foods LLC have recently filed for extensions to oppose or to cancel many new and existing spam-related trademarks and are even filing a few technology trademarks of their own. The DSPAM project, a popular open source and freely available spam filtering application, has already received two such notices of opposition from the trademark trial and appeal board." Source: Slashdot

Integrated Antispyware Solution for Home Users

"Symantec Corp., the global leader in information security, today announced availability of its comprehensive Internet security solution that provides home users broad protection from spyware, adware and other online risks. Norton Internet Security 2005 AntiSpyware Edition provides real-time detection and automatic removal of spyware from users' computers and prevents new spyware risks from impacting the PC in the future. This new spyware functionality has been fully integrated into Norton Internet Security, Symantec's award-winning Internet security solution, which provides essential protection from viruses, hackers, and privacy risks. Norton Internet Security 2005 AntiSpyware Edition supports the Microsoft Windows XP and Windows 2000 Professional operating systems." Source: cpilive

It's Time For a Spam Filter

"There are a whole lot of antispam products that work with Outlook Express. Here are a few: Spam Killer for Outlook and Outlook Express (www.dignitysoftware.com/spam-killer.html); SPAMFighter for Outlook and Outlook Express (www.spamfighter.com); McAfee SpamKiller for Outlook and Outlook Express" Source: Democrat & Chronicle

Network Security Evolving to Unified-Management Approach

"The cloaked combination of these three types of infections creates what security agents now call a blended threat. As the notion of unified threat management becomes widespread, more security companies are offering products that address a layered protection scheme in a suite of software and hardware combinations. Spyware and adware infections have become so widespread on enterprise networks that corporate IT departments are beginning to reinforce their network perimeters with a better mousetrap. This security strategy, known in IT circles as unified threat management, puts multiple layers of hardware and software protection into one package. Using this strategy, IT officials in medium to large companies can apply an exhaustive, bundled approach that layers security by combining software and hardware." Source: Technology News

AOL Spam Filter Blocks Emergency Weather Alerts

About 4,200 people signed up for a Florida county's e-mail alert service, offering quick warnings on hurricanes, tornadoes and other weather emergencies. But not everyone was receiving the alerts -- thanks to AOL's spam filter. Source: STT

Lack of Porn Pleased Students

Thanks to the University's new spam-blocking software, there are almost 3 million spam messages - about 16 gigabytes worth - currently quarantined on the Brown server, according to Stephanie Birdsall, lead communications specialist at Computing and Information Services. Source: The Brown Daily Herald

Spam Filtering Makes Workers Miss Deadlines

"The Infosecurity Europe conference partnered with Mirapoint, a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based vendor of e-mail server and security appliances for the survey, which noted that 42 percent of U.K. workers said they'd missed a deadline due to an e-mail message gone astray. Two-thirds of them said that legitimate messages they should have received were blocked by their company's spam filter; two thirds of that number said the problem happened on a monthly basis, but a quarter said it occurred every week" Source: spamfo.co.uk

Best Internet Filtering and Spam Products

ContentWatch Inc. has been selected as the Gold Award Winner in both the Spam and Internet Filter categories by the TopTenREVIEW.com Web site. Based out of Salt Lake City, ContentWatch is a trusted provider of Internet filter and protection tools designed for families and small to medium businesses. Source: ContentWatch

Collaborative Spam Filtering

A team of researchers have designed a spam filtering system that achieves a spam detection rate close to 100 percent, while the false positive rate is kept around zero. Source: SAPinfo