MECHANICSBURG, Pa. -- ICSA Labs([R]), an independent division of Cybertrust([R]), the global information security specialist, today announced the formation of the Anti-Spam Product Developers' Consortium. This consortium was created to advance anti-spam technologies and to provide a third-party information source to help the anti-spam user community select and effectively implement...
Spam, the scourge of inboxes everywhere. Until recently, I used SpamArrest -- a server-side challenge/response system that worked quite well for the most part -- to keep it out of my inbox. But I'm a cheapskate (no, seriously, I have a whole blog to prove it), so I decided to try some...
AsiaInfo Services 08-18-2006 China to Train 1,000 E-mail Administrator CHINA, Aug 18, 2006 SinoCast via COMTEX -- The Internet Society of China plans to train 1000 e-mail administrators in Nanchang of Jiangxi from this September, in order to enable Internet-based companies...
Technological anti-spam advances, together with enforcement of the CAN-SPAM Act, have reduced the amount of spam reaching consumer inboxes, according to the Federal Trade Commission FTC. In a report to Congress, "Effectiveness and Enforcement of the CANSPAM Act," the ETC concludes that the act is effective in providing protection for...
IronPort® Systems Inc., a leading provider of anti-spam, anti-virus, and anti-spyware appliances for business, today announced at the RSA Conference (booth 1943), the availability of the IronPort C650TM email security appliance, setting a new standard in performance for the industry's most accurate anti-spam defense.
The Federal Trade Commission, the agency in charge of fighting spam, reported in late December that the problem of unsolicited e-mail is shrinking. “We’re making progress,” says Lydia Parnes, director of the FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection. According to the FTC, antispam filtering technology and the two-year-old Can-Spam Act...
WASHINGTON AP -- Those annoying "spam" e-mails for Viagra or low-rate mortgages that clog computer users' mailboxes appear to be on the decline, federal regulators said Tuesday. In a report to Congress, the Federal Trade Commission said the anti-spam law that took effect two years ago has helped...
GOLDEN, Colo. -- First day of ISPCON will Kick Off with an Exclusive First-Look at Innovative and Industry Changing Products at the Press Sneak Peek Session ISPCON organizer, The Golden Group, today announces the line-up for the Press Sneak Peek Session on October 18, 2005 at the Santa Clara...
WASHINGTON AFP — Three people were indicted and a fourth pleaded guilty to criminal charges in the first case related to the transmission of obscene spam e-mails under a 2003 US anti-spam law, officials said. The US Justice Department said late Thursday the charges target an operation that sent...
WASHINGTON AFP — A judge sentenced a man to nine years in prison for violating anti-spam laws by sending out millions of unsolicited e-mails using fake addresses, authorities said. Loudon County, Virginia, Circuit Judge sentenced Jeremy Jaynes of Raleigh, North Carolina, accepting the recommendation of a jury that convicted...
MECHANICSBURG, Pa. -- ICSA Labs([R]), an independent division of Cybertrust([R]), the global information security specialist, today announced that it is now accepting anti-spam products for evaluation and certification testing. The goal of ICSA Labs' anti-spam product testing and certification is to evaluate product effectiveness in detecting and removing spam, as...
Federal authorities are quietly carrying out a series of raids against the nation's biggest suspected spam operators in their most aggressive actions yet. Sometimes striking in the early morning, FBI agents and other law enforcement in recent weeks have pounced on ventures in Florida, Arizona, New Jersey and New...
ATLANTA -- Publication Recommends IronMail be Included on "Short List" of Products Evaluated as Part of a Messaging Security Purchase CipherTrust, the leader in messaging security, today announced that Network World, a respected IT trade publication, has named CipherTrust a "favorite" in an anti-spam and e-mail security review of...
M2 PRESSWIRE-9 November 2004-SYMANTEC CORPORATION: U.S. Army Knowledge Online Portal blocks e-mail threats with Symantec; Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam protects more than 1.8 million AKO intranet mailboxesC1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:11092004 CUPERTINO, Calif. - Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC), the global leader...
FrontBridge Technologies Inc.WHAT: A FrontBridge senior executive will speak on the adoption of email authentication standards at the inaugural Email Authentication Summit. Moderated by the Federal Trade Commission and the National Institute of Standards...
WASHINGTON AFP — A man convicted of violating anti-spam laws by sending out tens of thousands of unsolicited e-mails using fake addresses faces nine years in prison in Virgina, an anti-spam group said. The Spamhaus Project, which tracks spam and suspected spammers, said a court in Virginia recommended the...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- In laboratory tests of 10 email security software suites, PC Professionell selected G Data -- which uses Commtouch technology -- as Editor's Choice for its anti-spam capability.
By Hiawatha Bray, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 8--Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly declared a victory in the war on unwanted e-mail yesterday, as a Florida spammer agreed to pay $25,000 to settle a state lawsuit charging violations of...
NEW YORK -- A row over intellectual property claims from Microsoft Corp. has dealt a fatal blow to an ambitious effort by Internet engineers to create a technical standard for curbing junk e-mail. The failure to reach consensus on the Microsoft-championed proposal known as Sender ID throws back...
WASHINGTON -- The FCC's new rules aimed at protecting wireless customers who don't want to receive electronic spam messages leave open some cracks that concern consumer groups and carriers. In early August, the commission sought to lay blanket protection against the mass...
