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.

Sydney Uni students vent about Microsoft email system

Sydney Uni students vent about Microsoft email system

University of Sydney students have taken to online forums to vent about the institution switching its email over to Microsoft’s Live@edu product earlier this month.
Staff Writers May 22 2009 2:17PM Software
Email security remains a threat

Email security remains a threat

SC Magazine takes a look at the products and managed services aimed at keeping the corporate inbox clean.
Staff Writers May 15 2009 12:07PM Security
Swine Flu spam continues to spread with cybercriminals using celebrity names

Swine Flu spam continues to spread with cybercriminals using celebrity names

Spammers have moved to using celebrity names alongside swine flu terms to spread malicious links.
Dan Raywood May 12 2009 10:46AM Security
Facebook users duped into revealing personal details

Facebook users duped into revealing personal details

Users of popular social networking sites have been tricked into divulging personal information, according to the Q1 2009 email threat report from Cyberoam.
Dan Raywood May 7 2009 11:17AM Security
Image spam levels reach 19-month high

Image spam levels reach 19-month high

Levels of image spam have reached a 19-month high that is getting harder to detect.
Dan Raywood May 6 2009 10:30AM Security
Botnet ranks continue to swell

Botnet ranks continue to swell

The number of computers being infected for use in botnets has soared in recent months, according to McAfee.
Shaun Nichols May 5 2009 2:44PM Security
Revealed: Lessons from WebCentral's 72-hour email outage

Revealed: Lessons from WebCentral's 72-hour email outage

Melbourne IT chief technical officer Glenn Gore gives iTnews a blow-by-blow account of how a SAN failure at WebCentral’s data centre led to 200,000 customers losing e-mail access for three days.
Brett Winterford May 4 2009 12:23PM Storage
Swine flu spam leveling off, but attacks continue

Swine flu spam leveling off, but attacks continue

As reports of swine flu infections grow across the world, spammers and malware purveyors continue to try to cash in.
Dan Kaplan May 4 2009 11:28AM Security
WebCentral email saga finally over

WebCentral email saga finally over

Some 72 hours into an outage that left WebCentral customers without access to managed exchange, POP email or webmail, customers of the Melbourne-IT owned hosting company finally report being able to once again access e-mail.
Brett Winterford May 1 2009 3:36PM Storage
WebCentral email still down at 49 hour mark

WebCentral email still down at 49 hour mark

WebCentral claims to have fixed the problem that has left tens of thousands of Australians without email over the last three days, but customers continue to report issues with the service.
Brett Winterford Apr 30 2009 11:24AM Hardware
Spam levels continue to surge

Spam levels continue to surge

The level of spam flooding inboxes is at its highest level in more than a year, according to researchers.
Shaun Nichols Apr 30 2009 10:07AM Security
Harbour IT cut down by WebCentral email outage

Harbour IT cut down by WebCentral email outage

Harbour IT has revealed that WebCentral is the reason for an email outage that has left its thousands of customers without service for up to 48 hours.
Ry Crozier Apr 29 2009 3:02PM Telco/ISP
WebCentral customers still without email

WebCentral customers still without email

Customers of Melbourne IT-owned WebCentral are still without email on day two of an outage affecting customers across the nation.
Brett Winterford Apr 29 2009 12:14PM Storage
Conficker now expected to spread email spam and host spyware

Conficker now expected to spread email spam and host spyware

The Conficker worm is expected to see malware being spread by the infected botnet.
Dan Raywood Apr 28 2009 11:15AM Security
Swine flu causes spam fever

Swine flu causes spam fever

Just days after news surfaced of a swine flu outbreak in Mexico, spammers are exploiting the news to advertise online pharmacies.
Shaun Nichols Apr 28 2009 10:52AM Security
Waledac kicks off new spam campaign

Waledac kicks off new spam campaign

A new campaign to lure users into downloading malware is running on the Waledac botnet, according to security researchers.
Chuck Miller Apr 17 2009 10:00AM Security
Spam comes with huge carbon footprint

Spam comes with huge carbon footprint

In a report on the state of the spam industry, security software vendor McAfee has estimated that spam emails use 33 terawatt hours (TWh) of power each year.
Iain Thomson Apr 16 2009 10:51AM Security
Warnings made to smartphone users over Sexy View worm

Warnings made to smartphone users over Sexy View worm

The Sexy View worm is hitting smartphones and circumventing signature checks.
Dan Raywood Apr 9 2009 11:05AM Security
Gartner predicts surge in software-as-a-service email

Gartner predicts surge in software-as-a-service email

The software-as-a-service (SaaS) market for email will grow strongly in the next three years, creating opportunities for third-party application providers, according to figures from Gartner released today.
Phil Muncaster Apr 8 2009 6:10AM Software
Spam levels soar as Easter approaches

Spam levels soar as Easter approaches

Spam levels rose by a third last month to reach nearly 85 per cent of all email traffic, the highest since the McColo shutdown last year, according to the Threat Forecast and Report (PDF) from email and web security firm MXLogic.
Phil Muncaster Apr 7 2009 10:55AM Security

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