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Sendside Reinvents Business Communications to Foil Spam, Reduce Carbon Emissions
Let’s face it—e-mail has become almost useless due to the growth of spam, embedded malware and a host of other problems. Simply put, businesses can’t rely on e-mail any more for marketing or professional communications. What’s more, spam is not only a drain on productivity, it has now been identified as a contributor to carbon…
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DLP: Plugging Costly Data Leaks Creates Big Opportunities
An analysis by the Association Press found that more than 800 million data records were exposed or compromised in 2008. The data loss prevention opportunities are growing and the market for this technology is expected to top $2 billion by 2012. Resellers of data loss prevention (DLP) are finding a golden opportunity, but digging for…
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Symantec Warns of Adaptive Malware Threat
In its’ annual "Internet Security Threat Report (ISTR)", the 14th edition of the report, Symantec says it expects that malicious code developers will continue to increasingly adapt attacks in order to evade detection and that some overt attack activities could be abandoned or pushed further underground. Malicious activity will be increasingly pushed to regions with…
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Security Breaches Strike Two-Thirds of Businesses
Cloud-based application security solutions provider Veracode has released the results of a study it commissioned with Forrester Research around the state of software security today and what enterprises are doing to protect critical data residing in applications. Among the findings, the exploitation of vulnerabilities in software is a major cause of data breaches with 62…
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Microsoft Plans Simultaneous Next-Gen Exchange, ForeFront Launch
Microsoft promises a “rolling thunder” launch later this year of the various components of the next generation of its ForeFront security suite for client, network and cloud-based network protection. ForeFront Code-named Stirling, the next generation of the ForeFront suite has been delayed as the software packages for anti-malware and application-layer security undergo further testing and…
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Twitter Worm Stopped, Malware Threat Persists
“All clear” is the word coming out of Twitter as it completes the mop-up work from an Easter weekend worm outbreak that infected tens of thousands of user profiles. According to published reports, Twitter was attacked at least four times in the past week with a worm designed to infect profiles with an application that…