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How much does spam cost you? Google will calculate

How much is spam costing your company? Google unveiled a nifty little calculator Wednesday to help you add it up.

| News | Security | 11/19/08 at 3:55 pm |


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The flipside of spam protection: Keeping your business out of blacklists

We do pay a lot of attention to filtering out spam, and rightly so. The vast majority of all email traffic is spam, and while some of it is merely annoying, some also contains dangerous malware in the form of attachments, or links to malicious web sites. It drains bandwidth and saps productivity.

| How-to | Security | 11/13/08 at 4:43 am |


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Source of 75% of sent spam forced offline

A web hosting company allegedly responsible for at least 75% of the daily spam volume worldwide has been forced offline, thanks to evidence gathered by security experts. McColo Corp, based in California, had its service terminated by its ISP, Hurricane Electric earlier today.

| News | Security | 11/13/08 at 4:31 am |


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Phishing Scams Rise as Banks Fail

As the economic crisis appears to peak, more banks will fail. This has experts predicting that new phishing scams will arise targeted at the customers of those banks, and the agencies helping those customers may be actually encouraging such attacks.

| News | Security | 11/13/08 at 4:29 am |


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