Email Filtering + Business Email Management » Relevant Links http://www.dicontas.co.uk/blog email filtering | email management | email services | email security for business email users Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:13:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en links for 2007-08-21 http://www.dicontas.co.uk/blog/relevant-links/links-for-2007-08-21/ http://www.dicontas.co.uk/blog/relevant-links/links-for-2007-08-21/#comments Tue, 21 Aug 2007 21:18:42 +0000 Dicontas Blog Admin http://www.dicontas.co.uk/blog/relevant-links/links-for-2007-08-21/135/ SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "links for 2007-08-21", url: "http://www.dicontas.co.uk/blog/relevant-links/links-for-2007-08-21/" });]]>
  • Habeas debuts new e-mail monitoring service
    E-mail reputation services firm Habeas has debuted a new e-mail reputation monitoring program called Email Monitor. The new product includes features such as e-mail delivery and reputation data and analysis as well as a tool for marketing, sales and custo
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    Email has overtaken telephony as the communication tool of choice in the workplace, new research claimed today. The study found that 100 per cent of the end user respondents use email, followed by fixed-line telephony (80 per cent), mobile telephony (76

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  • 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.

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  • 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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  • Multi-layered approach required to protect intellectual property news on Security Park

    IT security is all about knowing what the risks are, and how far you can trust users. Have you ever wondered about exactly how much of a threat your users are to your organisation? Well, wonder no more, as an in depth study by Queens University, Belfast a

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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.

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  • Entrepreneurs Rely on Email for Business Success, Despite Legal Problems | Making It Legal
    A recent survey by online payroll service SurePayroll reveals that more than 80 percent of small business owners believe e-mail is a key element in the success of their business. But email can also cause legal problems for entrepreneurs . . . something no
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  • Computerworld > Email overload is weighing businesses down: survey
    A deluge of email, multiple personal and business addresses and lack of manageability are making email more a hindrance than a help to many organisations, according to a new survey.
    (tags: email-overload)
  • FT.com / Mergermarket - MessageLabs positioning itself for sale, source says; IPO on the cards
    MessageLabs, the UK-based e-mail management and security company, has been positioning itself to be taken out by a larger company, an industry source said.
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  • MediaPost Publications - DMA Merges EMC Into EEC, Launches Email Reputation Registry - 07/10/2007
    THE Direct Marketing Association (DMA) announced an agreement to merge its Email Marketing Council (EMC) into the Email Experience Council (EEC), and also said it will team with Return Path’s Sender Score unit to launch an Email Reputation Registry fo
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  • News - IT Security News - SC Magazine UK
    Email security vendors reported a spike in PDF spam this week that, because of the size of the messages, increased global spam traffic by as much as a third.
    (tags: email-security email-spam)

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  • Spammer faces 11 years in prison | The Register
    A New York man who was snared in federal investigators’ sting operation targeting senders of junk email pleaded guilty to spamming 1.2m AOL subscribers. Adam Vitale, 26, of Brooklyn, pleaded guilty in federal court in Manhattan to violations of the CAN-Sp
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  • MBO splits Star and MessageLabs | The Register
    Managed security services firm MessageLabs and Star Technology Services, the business-focused ISP that gave it birth, are to become separate companies via a management buyout of Star. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Star Technology Services will now
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  • The politics of US Govenment email in the workplace
    The issues surrounding the controversy are not limited to the United States government. Every company that maintains a mail system has the problem of what to retain, and how to retain it. In addition to a “corporate” email system, companies may also provi
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  • Never email a job reference | The Register
    The UK’s privacy chief issued guidance recently that, between the lines, revealed a strange quirk of data protection law: if you don’t want an employee to see what you’ve told another boss about him, send the reference by post, not email.
    (tags: data-protection-act legal)
  • Emails can infringe copyright, ruling | The Register
    Business letters can be protected by copyright and forwarding them to others can be an infringement, the High Court has ruled. The decision could have implications for email communication because the same principles will apply.
    (tags: copyright email-compliance legal)

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  • Companies to update websites and email footers
    Companies in the UK must include certain regulatory information on their websites and in their email footers by the 1st January 2007 or they will breach the Companies Act and risk a fine. Every company should list its company details on all electronic communications and forms.
    (tags: email-compliance law legal)

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  • After Google buys Postini, what next for MessageLabs? | Software as Services | ZDNet.com
    Google’s acquisition of Postini throws a spotlight on an often overlooked SaaS category. Message filtering is one of those functions that really makes little sense done on-premise. Email is in the Internet anyway, and part of the point of filtering it i
  • Techworld.com - Business information gets lost in the email
    A deluge of email proliferating personal and business addresses, and lack of manageability are making email more a hindrance than a help to many organisations, according to a new survey of nearly 500 business users sponsored by JPY, a maker of email manag

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  • E-mailing Responsibly
    E-mail has the same legal status as a letter. While e-mail is indispensable at work, it can also be the source of serious problems. If you are too casual using e-mail and harm someone’s reputation, cause offence, or spread a computer virus,…

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  • 10 ways to get a grip on your e-mail - May. 18, 2007
  • Tumbleweed Communications Announces WorldSecure 2007 Award Winners
  • Trend Micro Introduces Managed Email Security Services Offering for Small and Medium Businesses - Trend Micro USA
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  • Precision email attack targets senior execs - vnunet.com
    A deluge of precisely targeted spam designed to harvest intellectual property from companies worldwide was launched on 26 June, security experts have revealed. More than 500 emails were intercepted in a few hours by MessageLabs, a security firm which filt
  • MX Logic’s Email Security Services Lands $9 Million - 2007-06-27 10:36:27 | Venture Capital News
    ORIX Venture Finance announced today that it has provided MX Logic Inc. with a $9MM one-stop financing facility, providing working capital and a term loan. Founded in 2002, MX Logic has become a leading managed security services provider of email and Web
  • Avoiding Information Overload
    Information overload sets in when you accumulate ideas at a faster rate than you can process them or act on them.

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  • Email insult sacking was unfair, but blame shared, says Tribunal | OUT-LAW.COM
    A woman whose email insults about her boss caused her to be sacked was unfairly dismissed, an Employment Tribunal has ruled. But she will not be reinstated and will only receive compensation of 12.5% of her losses because she was 75% to blame.
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  • Nearly seven in ten junk emails are images
    By last October 40 percent of spam was image-based, and by the end of the year the proportion had risen to 65 percent.
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  • Higher Email Threat Volumes, Greater Cybercrime Profits
    SonicWALL recorded twice as many directory harvest attacks (DHA) as all spam attempts, which rose to two and a half times their 2005 levels.
    2006 profits from phishing scams rose fourfold, from $257 to $1244 per victim according to a November ‘06 report
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  • Panda launches new TrustLayer Mail managed security service
    Security vendor Panda Software has launched its new TrustLayer Mail managed security service. This service ensures that corporate email is free from viruses, spam and other malicious or inappropriate content.
    (tags: email managed-security-service)
  • Proofpoint and MessageOne | New Managed Email Security Service
    Proofpoint, Inc., a leader in large-enterprise messaging security solutions and MessageOne, a leading business continuity and email management vendor, announced the availability of comprehensive outsourced spam and virus protection through a managed service…
    (tags: email managed-security-service)
  • Spam pumps up its image - and dumps its stock onto you
    About two-thirds of all spam now uses some form of image to convey the message rather than text. Image spam typically requires three or four times as much data per message as normal, text-based spam.
    (tags: email-spam)

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  • Five fast email productivity tips | 43 Folders
    Five fast email productivity tips
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  • Quick tips on processing your email inbox | 43 Folders
    The basic idea is to firewall processing as a discrete phase you go through no more than every hour or two at the most.
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  • 43 Folders Series: Inbox Zero | 43 Folders
    These are posts from a special 43 Folders series looking at the skills, tools, and attitude needed to empty your email inbox
    (tags: email productivity)

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  • MessageLabs Set to Boost R&D via $60M Loan - CIO Tech Informer - News - CIO
    MessageLabs, one of a handful of smaller security vendors competing in a cutthroat market, has secured a US$60 million loan that it will use to bolster its research and development efforts, the company said Thursday.
    (tags: email MessageLabs filtering monitoring)
  • News - IT Security News - SC Magazine UK
    A sharp increase in phishing attacks sees criminals target financial organisations, according to a report released today. The intelligence report, from MessageLabs, found that 54 percent of malicious emails intercepted in September were phishing attacks.
    (tags: email monitoring filtering MessageLabs malicious phishing)

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  • Internet Pornography Statistics
    Published Stats on Pornography Industry Revenue Statistics, Internet Pornography Statistics, Children Internet Pornography Statistics, Adult Internet Pornography Statistics, and Women and Pornography Statistics
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  • Conventional Web Filtering Tools for Schools Miss the Fastest-Growing Source of Adult Content
    Conventional Internet filtering tools for schools still leave pupils and students dangerously exposed to a range of adult content, according to filtering specialist PureSight.
    (tags: web filtering internet schools adult content)

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  • Pressure mounts on ISPs to filter email
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  • Increasing Security Needs of Enterprises to Fuel Growth in the World Content Filtering Market: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance
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