Spam Spam

Wasted employee time, storage and security are among the issues facing companies as they grapple with a growing influx of spam into mailboxes.

Spam has become one of the major problems facing companies today. IT managers continue to investigate a range of solutions, looking to stay on top of the lastest developments in this area.

In this Spotlight section iTnews focusses on some of the latest news in this area, to help keep readers up-to-date with what is happening in the industry.

Vocus ISP Dodo's email system breached on Friday

Vocus ISP Dodo's email system breached on Friday

Some customers then impacted by SIM swapping. 
Ry Crozier Oct 20 2025 5:57AM Security
Optus used wrong email address to inform gov of Triple Zero outage

Optus used wrong email address to inform gov of Triple Zero outage

After address was changed in the prior week.
Ry Crozier Oct 8 2025 12:24PM Telco/ISP
Microsoft informs customers that hackers spied on emails

Microsoft informs customers that hackers spied on emails

Around six months after it first disclosed the intrusion.
Zeba Siddiqui Jun 29 2024 8:46AM Security
US congressman says Chinese spies hacked his emails

US congressman says Chinese spies hacked his emails

For about a month.
Christopher Bing and Raphael Satter Aug 16 2023 12:46PM Security
Barracuda advises replacement of vulnerable email gateway appliances

Barracuda advises replacement of vulnerable email gateway appliances

Regardless of patch version level, customers told.
Juha Saarinen Jun 8 2023 12:14PM Security
TPG Telecom discloses hosted Exchange breach at iiNet, Westnet

TPG Telecom discloses hosted Exchange breach at iiNet, Westnet

Threat actors targeted financial data.
Ry Crozier Dec 14 2022 12:16PM Security
Rackspace hosted Exchange still down due to 'security incident'

Rackspace hosted Exchange still down due to 'security incident'

Customers asked to move to Microsoft 365.
Juha Saarinen Dec 5 2022 10:40AM Security
Microsoft details massive phishing operation

Microsoft details massive phishing operation

Adversary in the Middle campaign tried to target over 10,000 organisations.
Juha Saarinen Jul 13 2022 12:40PM Security
Twitter says it removes over 1 million spam accounts each day

Twitter says it removes over 1 million spam accounts each day

Answering Elon Musk's questions.
Sheila Dang and Katie Paul Jul 8 2022 6:55AM Software
Slack CTO Cal Henderson says Salesforce data empowers collaboration

Slack CTO Cal Henderson says Salesforce data empowers collaboration

The value proposition of the acquisition.
Andrew Birmingham , VB Templeman Jun 23 2022 6:00AM Emerging Tech
Australia, New Zealand join forces to battle spam

Australia, New Zealand join forces to battle spam

ACMA, Department of Internal Affairs sign info-sharing MoU.
Richard Chirgwin Jun 8 2022 12:18PM Telco/ISP
Elon Musk seals US$44 billion deal for Twitter

Elon Musk seals US$44 billion deal for Twitter

Pledges to defeat spam bots.
Greg Roumeliotis Apr 26 2022 6:28AM Software
Parliament now blocking 82 percent of email impersonation attempts

Parliament now blocking 82 percent of email impersonation attempts

DMARC successfully deployed in December.
Justin Hendry Feb 14 2022 11:50AM Security
iiNet says data centre cooling system 'malfunctioned' on Christmas Day

iiNet says data centre cooling system 'malfunctioned' on Christmas Day

Took time to bring servers online and clear email backlog.
Ry Crozier Jan 4 2022 10:25AM Hardware
Config error left 190 Australian organisations open to phishing attacks

Config error left 190 Australian organisations open to phishing attacks

Over-permissive SPF record to blame.
Juha Saarinen Dec 2 2021 6:52AM Security
FBI email infrastructure hijacked to send out fake messages

FBI email infrastructure hijacked to send out fake messages

Bogus warnings blame cyber security expert for attacks.
Juha Saarinen Nov 15 2021 12:15PM Security
Parliament moves to roll out DMARC

Parliament moves to roll out DMARC

Expected in December.
Justin Hendry Nov 1 2021 1:10PM Security
Secure email group Proton wins Swiss appeal over surveillance rules

Secure email group Proton wins Swiss appeal over surveillance rules

Ruling says email services not subject to data retention rules.
Michael Shields Oct 25 2021 6:59AM Security

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