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Spam drops sharply over Christmas

...over the festive period, according to Symantec. The security company's subsidiary MessageLabs said the steep drop was in part due to spam coming from... Read more

6 January, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Hague: UK government fell victim to Zeus attack

...a link, which downloaded a variant of the Zeus Trojan, said Hague. MessageLabs, which filters emails for the UK government, had not responded to a... Read more

4 February, 2011 by Tom Espiner

GCHQ: Government systems see thousands of attacks

...that host malicious code. The company that defends UK government email systems, MessageLabs Symantec Hosted Services, said that targeted attacks on public-sector systems have... Read more

13 October, 2010 by Tom Espiner

BT Business customers blacklisted in anti-spam snafu

...A number of BT Business customers were blacklisted by MessageLabs' anti-spam products on Monday and Tuesday, although the ISP says the... Read more

18 August, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Rustock botnet goes quiet again

The botnet, the source of up to 70 percent of all spam, has stopped sending out emails in a repeat of events at Christmas Read more

17 March, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Osborne: Treasury hit by hundreds of hacking attacks

...same month the European Commission said it had suffered a "serious" cyberattack. MessageLabs Symantec Hosted Services, which provides email security for the UK government, declined... Read more

16 May, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Global spam email down after Rustock takedown

...announced it had also crippled a Zeus botnet server. Symantec's monthly MessageLabs Intelligence report, released on Thursday, showed that spam volume fell by 33... Read more

1 April, 2011 by Tyler Thia

Global spam traffic rebounds as Rustock wakes

...has now returned, this means the overall level of spam has increased. MessageLabs Intelligence honeypot servers have seen an increase of roughly 98 percent in... Read more

12 January, 2011

Rustock botnet responsible for 39 percent of all spam

...of bots, but increased its [spam] volume," according to Paul Wood, a MessageLabs Intelligence senior analyst for Symantec Hosted Services. Rustock has been responsible for... Read more

25 August, 2010 by Jack Clark
Mobility, Employees, Policies

Mobility, Employees, Policies

...initial protective measures. Finally, it will cover the security services provided by MessageLabs, now Symantec Hosted Services Read more

11 November, 2010

Photos: MessageLabs antivirus operations

...MessageLabs' headquarters are housed in three yellow-brick buildings near Gloucester. The buildings... Read more

30 November, 2005 by Tom Espiner

'Clean up this Internet effluent now'

...they will look on to something else. Internet-level filtering is exactly Messagelabs' business. This means that all your clients' email communication is monitored by... Read more

7 May, 2004 by Jason Curtis

MessageLabs tagged as a 'spammer

Mail filtering specialist MessageLabs has come in for criticism after it was blocked by AOL's... Read more

7 July, 2003 by Will Sturgeon

Major spike in spam containing shortened URLs

Email security provider MessageLabs said on Tuesday it saw a dramatic spike in the number of... Read more

8 July, 2009 by Elinor Mills

G20 protesters hit gov't with email attacks

...government staff by name in an attempt to break into their computers, MessageLabs head Adrian Chamberlain revealed to ZDNet UK on Thursday. "Protesters at G20... Read more

29 June, 2009 by Tom Espiner

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BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

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...... and PDP11s too

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BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

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apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

7 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
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So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

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Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

10 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

11 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

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I would like a job for me and do good to their tackiness vellent my help I will do my best to help you mercie for all

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BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

14 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

15 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

15 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
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@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

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If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

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