Verizon DSL Uses Yahoo Spam Filter

"In January, Verizon announced a multiyear agreement to provide Yahoo premium services, such as anti-virus protection, spam filtering, email and Internet radio, through the Verizon portal." Source: internetweek.com

It Cost Millions, But Users Now Protected From E-mail Spam

"Businesses large and small pay for software that will keep spam at bay, spending $300 million on anti-spam products in 2003. And new threats arise from time to time, such as the spam associated with phishing financial scams." Source: menafn.com

Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security Now Offered by Dell

"Trend Micro, Inc. announced that leading computer system manufacturer, Dell, is now offering its North American customers the choice to pre- install Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security on new desktop and notebook systems. Dell customers have the option to obtain, and have pre-installed by Dell, Trend Micro's comprehensive protection against viruses, spyware, hackers, spam, and other types of Internet-related threats." Source: hardwarezone.com

Brave New 'Spam-Free' World on Offer

"Tech vendor Spectaris LLC is announcing the launch of SendPlus, a spam-fighting software application "designed to completely eradicate spam from a user's inbox," according to company officials. It "allows consumers to enter a spam-free world" by offering "the industry's most effective spam-blocking technology free of charge," according to Paul Velusamy, senior vice president of marketing for SendPlus." Source: tmcnet.com

SendPlus Spam-Blocking Product Launches

"Spectaris LLC, creators of innovative Internet technologies, today announced the launch of SendPlus(TM), a revolutionary new spam-fighting software application designed to completely eradicate spam from a user's inbox. SendPlus is a unique product that allows consumers to enter a spam-free world by offering the industry's most effective spam-blocking technology free of charge, according to Paul Velusamy, senior vice president of marketing for SendPlus." Source: SendPlus via businesswire.com

In-the-Cloud Security

"Innovative approaches to security are underway according to Gartner. AT&T provides a range of network-based security services and startups like VigilantMinds, Prolexic Technologies and Perimeter Internetworking insert themselves into the cloud, similarly to how anti-spam filtering services insert themselves into the e-mail flow." Source: zdnet.com

Microsoft Finds Spam Bill Hard To Swallow

"Microsoft's Technology Care and Safety Group, headed by Ryan Hamlin, is celebrating a blow against spam in the US after securing a $US7 million settlement from former spammer Scott Richter, who Mr Hamlin describes as the third largest spammer in the US, responible for sending out more than 20 billion spam messages in just one year. However, he says the New Zealand Government's Unsolicited Electronic Messages Bill is "too broad" and could impinge on "the amazing vehicle of e-mail marketing"." Source:stuff.co.nz

Secure Computing buys CyberGuard for $295m

"Secure Computing is buying rival CyberGuard for $295 million. Secure Computing expects to see revenue jump from $110 million per year to $200 million, said Mike Gallagher, senior vice president of product development. The company has warned of product changes and lay-offs. There is overlap in some assets. However, CyberGuard's lower-end SG line of firewall/VPN products is an area where Secure Computing doesn't compete at all at present. In the area of Web filtering, Secure Computing has products that do outbound Web filtering only, while CyberGuard's WebWasher is a standalone Web filter that also supports anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, said Gallagher." Source: techworld.com

No Spam Today! SMTP Proxy Free 2.3.1.2

"No Spam Today! is an SMTP proxy server based spam filter that sits between the internet and your mail server. Incoming mail is accepted from the open internet, checked for spam, and is then delivered to your existing SMTP mail server. During this process the included, renowned SpamAssassin� engine will flag spam mail in the subject line and add a filtering report to spam mails according to your configuration." Source: addict3d.org

Spam Grounded as Hawker Applies Filtering System

"Hawker Pacific is one of Australasia's largest commercial aviation companies with its operations ranging from aeroplane sales and spare parts provision through to repairing, modifying and refurbishing aircraft and aircraft components. A year ago information flow between branches was anything but smooth. The company had a major problem: spam. Robert Burns, Hawker Pacific's manager of information systems, says spam accounted for 60 percent of network traffic. They installed GFi MailEssentials for spam filtering, and GFi MailSecurity for filtering e-mail-borne viruses, worms, and Trojans. Today spam is down to about 1 percent of traffic and is fully contained." Source: computerworld.com

Spam Filters

"Whether you have a personal Web site or not you probably get spam. There's nothing more annoying on the Internet today then spam. Everyone gets it and most if it is definitely not something I even want to read. You can can protect yourself from these sorts of malicious emails by using spam filtering software. Here are a couple for you to consider." Source: personalweb.about.com

Email Delivery & The War Against Spam

"The war is afoot between legitimate senders of mass email and spammers. There is an ever-increasing number of tools, in the form of algorithms and list management tools. These tools will affect email delivery and reduce the amount of spam that has hijacked the email industry." Source: webpronews.com

What to Do If Your E-Mail Is Blocked

"For businesses using a commercial ISP, the best response to blocked e-mail is usually to seek to have that ISP improve its practices and rehabilitate its mail server's IP address. If that fails, then a business might have no choice but to switch to another ISP that uses an IP address that is not blocked." Source: ecommercetimes.com

Ending Spam: Review

"Jonathan Zdziarski has been fighting spam since before the first MIT spam conference in 2003, and has now released a full-on technical book, Ending Spam, on spam filtering. Ending Spam covers how the current and near-future crop of heuristic and statistical filters actually work under the hood, and how you can most effectively use such filters to protect your inbox." Source: slashdot.org

Security In A Box

"A security appliance is dedicated hardware that runs security software. By reducing the load on servers, its integrated security software often improves network performance. A small network firewall, including software and a year of updates, can cost less than $1,000. Spend between $3,000 and $5,000, and anti-spam and antivirus perimeter defense can be added for a small office." Source: washingtonetechnology.com

In The Fight Against Spam, A Few Knockouts

"There are signs that spam is nowhere near the problem it was a few years ago. America Online said last week that spam complaints among members dropped by 85% in nearly two years, and the number of spam messages AOL receives each day dropped by nearly half, or 1 billion a day, during that same period." Source: informationweek.com

Sophos Small Business Suite Security Software

"The Sophos Small Business Suite supports five workstations and a server, and provides anti-virus protection as well as spam blocking for commonplace mail servers, notably Microsoft's Exchange. This works out at £42 per user, including support for the first year. An anti-virus package, without the spam filters, works out at a shade under £30 a user." Source: news.independent.co.uk

Astaro Security Gateway 420 Appliance Wins Best Security Solution

"At the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, Astaro Security Gateway 420 appliance was awarded a Product Excellence Award in the category of "Best Security Solution." Astaro's unified threat management products protect computer networks from viruses, hackers, spam and other threats." Source: techweb.com

UMD OIT Stomps Spam

"After UMD students and faculty were recently bombarded with spam in their university e-mail accounts, the Office of Information Technology is replacing a newly installed spam filter with the one it previously used. “[The program] will look for keywords, drug names, spaces, capitalization — key phrases that are tip-offs there might be spam,” Huskamp said." Source: diamondbackonline.com

Sender Score Email Reputation Management Service

"Return Path, Inc. announced today that it will incorporate email reputation data from Mailshell into its Sender Score system, the first reputation management system for email senders and receivers. Sender Score is currently in Beta, and will officially launch later this quarter. The data will come from Mailshell's SpamCompiler engine, which optimizes, compiles and executes more than one million filter checks in a fraction of a second. Mailshell licenses the SpamCompiler engine to companies looking to add best-of-breed spam filtering to their own products." Source: ReturnPath via businesswire.com

Sender ID's Fading Message

"The Microsoft-backed protocol to identify e-mail senders aims to stem spam and phishing by making it harder for senders to forge their addresses and by improving filtering. So far, though, there's been a lack of adoption by legitimate businesses. Instead, it's been proving popular with a group it's meant to deter -- spammers." Source: zdnet.com.au

Spam - How to fight it.

"To clean the mail account from spam a universal anti-advertising shield is needed which will save the money otherwise wasted on downloading weighty letters traffic and the time otherwise lost on viewing and deleting them. Such a shield is the programs which remotely check the mail in the user box without uploading them and block unwanted letters immediately at the server." Source: clickpress.com

Network Composer Filters Both Network Traffic And Content

"Network Composer filters both network traffic and content, said Joe Lowry, a sales engineer for Cymphonix, during a pre-show product showcase. The capabilities will include spam filtering, IM (instant messaging) logging, Web filtering and control over illegal P2P (peer-to-peer) filing sharing. The product from Cymphonix will be the first device to be resold through SCO's channel, according to Andrew Nagle, SCO's Cymphonix product manager." Source: eweek.com

SpamSieve 2.3.2 Enhances Spam Filtering

"Shareware developer Michael Tsai on Monday released version 2.3.2 of SpamSieve, his client-side utility for filtering spam from e-mail. This update, which is free for registered users, includes such improvements as better filtering accuracy, a "Quit when mail client quits" option, the ability to revert to an earlier corpus even after it's reset, automatic disabling of Eudora's junk plug-ins, which can interfere with SpamSieve's accuracy, and more." Source: macobserver.com

Advanced Internet Management

"AIM's Enterprise Security System provides protection by combining “Best of Breed” Firewall, Virus Protection, Spam Filtering, Content Filtering, Caching and Reporting. The ESS, an “ALL-IN-ONE” solution, is designed to secure networks from threats. The Enterprise Security System has Centralized Management, which allows administrators to control the different functions of the ESS without having to worry about conflicts and configuration problems, which typically associate themselves with complex network setups." Source: eschoolnews.com

Dealing With Automated Form Spamming

"Anybody who develops or maintains blog software is likely to be all too familiar with the problem of comment spamming. This automated form spamming is (currently) easy to block - because it is automated and it is all sent by one bot, it doesn't tend to vary much." Source: sitepoint.com

Simple, Efficient and Secure Messaging Solutions

"Cloudmark and Message Partners today announced a number of new deals with service providers, including Echo Labs, Southern Star and Mexis, that build on their growing traction with service providers who provide email services. The combination of Cloudmark's high performance, innovative anti-spam and anti-phishing technology with MPP's unique email security and compliance integration platform enable service providers to offer comprehensive email security services and generate recurring revenue streams with tiered email services. Service providers that have deployed Cloudmark and MPP in place of open source tools such as SpamAssassin have seen a dramatic improvement in spam and phishing detection and a marked decrease in server load. These benefits translate into substantially lower operating costs and increased customer satisfaction." Source: Cloudmark, Inc via Yahoo