British workers are suffering “e-mail stress” because they are swamped with messages and constantly monitoring their inbox. Staff are left tired, frustrated and unproductive as they struggle to cope with a constant deluge of e-mails, researchers from Glasgow and Paisley universities have found.
MessageLabs: 20% of image spam uses PDFs attachments One of five image spam emails captured during July contained a scam PDF document, according to research released this week by email security vendor MessageLabs.
Spammers using MS Excel for Pump & Dump Scams Stock market pump-and-dump fraudsters have found a new vehicle for their email-borne spam campaigns, Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, according to MXSweep, the managed email filtering specialists. The soon to be worthless stocks are being promoted in file at 53% of BlackBerry users check email on loo !!!
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The Legal Risks of Uncontrolled Web Use and Email Content Whitepaper Morgan Cole Solicitors and MessageLabs combine to bring you this up to date guide for understanding the legal issues around uncontrolled email and web usage.
New research by Mesmo Consultancy report that over 50% of UK business users are self-inflicted ‘emailaholics’. Over 50% of UK business users are unable to walk away from their emails, even when on leave or off sick, according to the results of Mesmo Consultancy’s latest research on email behaviour as revealed at Inbox/Outbox 2007. More
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Proofpoint’s 4th annual study of outbound email and content security issues (http://www.proofpoint.com/outbound), found that outbound email and other electronic communication protocols continue to grow as a source of risk for companies.Proofpoint’s survey of 308 email decision-makers at large U.S. companies shows expanding concern over sensitive information leaving enterprises through outbound email and other electronic communications
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A survey on the users perception on the effectiveness of anti-spam products was carried out by Brockmann’s & Company. They surveyed 520 people working in IT, sales, marketing, finance, human resources and administration, or C-level executives. The rate of customers who are not “very satisfied” is more than 70 percent for six of the eight
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