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MessageLabs Intelligence: "Do you want spam with that spam?"
White Papers October marks the beginning of the spam season this year in the run up to the holiday period, with MessageLabs seeing a sharp increase in levels this month, especially in the past few weeks. As predicted in the September/Q3 MessageLabs Intelligence...
[September 5, 2007, 19:35]
MessageLabs: Watch out for audio and video spam
News Email security company MessageLabs has warned that spammers are already modifying their tactics when it comes to the emerging trend of using audio rather than text attachments in unsolicited mail. In a statement, MessageLabs claimed that, following...
[October 30, 2007, 14:41]
Messagelabs - IT Security Threats of Today and Tommorrow Webcast Supporting Doc
White Papers With real life examples of how these threats are dealt with, and a look at some of the dangers which may arise tomorrow, this MessageLabs webcast is essential for anyone involved with the IT security of their organisations
[August 5, 2009, 10:56]
MessageLabs tagged as a 'spammer'
News Mail filtering specialist MessageLabs has come in for criticism after it was blocked by AOL's spam filters amid allegations that it had an open relay which was pumping out spam. One customer, who contacted silicon.com anonymously to complain about...
[July 7, 2003, 13:51]
Photos: MessageLabs antivirus operations
News MessageLabs' headquarters are housed in three yellow-brick buildings near Gloucester. The Network Operations Centre (NOC) monitors MessageLabs' customer infrastructure, and is the first line of defence in combating malicious code and spam.
[November 30, 2005, 15:15]
Symantec snaps up MessageLabs for SaaS
News Security company Symantec is to acquire the email-security services provider MessageLabs. But] MessageLabs is a special company, [and] we think the future is better with Symantec. Symantec has signed an agreement to buy MessageLabs for $695m (£400m...
[October 8, 2008, 16:19]
MessageLabs Intelligence Report, August 2006
White Papers MessageLabs Intelligence August 06 Report brings you the latest trends, statistics and expert commentary on a sophisticated landscape of threats. Growing phishing attacks and critical vulnerabilities wreaked havoc on messaging security in August 2006.
[June 19, 2008, 8:54]
MessageLabs: Filtering your email sewage
News ISPs need to talk to each other, and share information proactively," says Alex Shipp, MessageLabs senior antivirus technologist and 'imagineer'. Every day MessageLabs stop 12,000 items that are not stopped by the antivirus engines alone.
[November 30, 2005, 12:45]
MessageLabs warns of customised email attacks
News MessageLabs security analyst Paul Wood said it is likely the two attacks are related, but their attachments and delivery mechanisms varied somewhat. Two highly targeted email attacks on individuals at corporations cropped up on Monday.
[November 21, 2007, 12:31]
European firms expect virus attacks to double
News Email security firm MessageLabs on Monday said that almost 70 percent of European companies expect the number of email viruses to double over the next 10 years while 40 percent expect payloads to become more destructive.
[July 6, 2004, 14:20]
'Clean up this Internet effluent now'
News E-mail security provider Messagelabs is taking the fight against spam and viruses elsewhere by offering proactive managed services that stop spam and virus threats at the Internet level, before they reach corporate networks and end users.
[May 7, 2004, 16:10]
Trojan masquerades as Skype update
News Cybercriminals are spreading a malicious Trojan horse under the guise of an update to Skype, email security firm MessageLabs said on Monday. It then blocks access to security updates and installs a back door on computers, MessageLabs said in a...
[October 18, 2005, 9:25]
Trojan exploits Outlook Express
News British e-mail provider MessageLabs.com has reported seeing a number of recent Trojan attacks exploiting a quirk in Outlook Express. MessageLabs reports finding this vulnerability in Outlook Express versions 6.00.2800.1106 and 6.00.26.0000 but says...
[February 20, 2003, 11:13]
Spam growth shows no sign of stopping
News Spam now makes up significantly more than half of all email, according to latest figures from MessageLabs. Last June, according to MessageLabs, just over 2 percent of email that the company filtered was spam, but by May this year the figure had...
[June 30, 2003, 16:29]
Counting the costs of email & web security breaches
White Papers MessageLabs brings you this FREE White Paper for business owners and managers of small to medium sized enterprises. Drawing from the experiences of four MessageLabs clients, this white paper is designed to help you manage the financial risks of...
[September 5, 2007, 19:26]
Researchers predict virus avalanche
News Virus attacks may treble by the end of the year according to research from UK antivirus firm MessageLabs, which suggests that government departments as well as companies will collapse under the weight of malicious attachments and executables.
[April 5, 2001, 16:28]
Facebook enabling tailored email attacks
News The first attack, detected by MessageLabs at 4.55pm on Monday, was sent to more than 400 individuals at financial institutions, with the email addressed specifically to that individual and purporting to be a complaint from the US Department of...
[November 21, 2007, 11:24]
Spammers take aim at HR departments
News Human resources departments and recruitment agencies are being increasingly targeted by spammers, antivirus vendor MessageLabs said on Tuesday. Targeted Trojan attacks have more chance of success against human resources and recruitment because they...
[April 4, 2006, 17:25]
Phishing attacks rise ten fold in 2004
News The number of phishing attacks being launched each month has increased ten fold this year, security company MessageLabs reported on Monday. Email security attacks remain unabated in their persistence and ferocity," said Mark Sunner, chief...
[December 6, 2004, 13:20]
Government must force ISPs to take security seriously
News In a recent interview, the CTO of Messagelabs Mark Sunner claimed the current attitude of ISPs to malware is akin to a water company pumping raw sewage to customers and expecting them to clean it up. Messagelabs CTO Mark Sunner claims that ISPs...
[December 6, 2004, 15:55]
