[caption id="attachment_2908" align="alignleft" width="244" caption="symantec logo"][/caption] Symantec is interested to acquire MessageLabs for $695 million in cash. The merger will add MessageLabs' email security services to Symantec's existing portfolio of security products and services. The deal is subject to mutaual agreement ...

IronPort Systems, a leading provider of solutions that protect businesses against spam, viruses and malware, and now part of Cisco, today announced hardware platforms for its enterprise- and carrier-grade e-mail security appliances that dramatically extend IronPort's performance advantage over its competition. The new IronPort C-SeriesTM and IronPort ...

Phishing emails are being used by the hackers to obtain data of the email users. The emails which they target is not on specific peoples. They just send emails in bundle to different email addresses and waitfor the peoples who do mistake of clicking the phishing link becomes victim and ...

Email bombing is characterized by abusers repeatedly sending an email message to a particular address at a specific victim site. In many instances, the messages will be large and constructed from meaningless data in an effort to consume additional system and network resources. Multiple accounts at the target site ...

The process of converting data into a coded form (ciphertext) to prevent it from being read and understood by an unauthorized party.  Encryption refers to algorithmic schemes that encode plain text into non-readable form or cyphertext, providing privacy. The receiver of the encrypted text uses a "key" to decrypt the ...

The trustworthy channel is the first step in sending the information. If the channel have loop holes and not reliable then you may be hit and your data can be hacked on the way. If you send passwords in cleartext over an Ethernet LAN with untrusted people on it. If you create ...

Sender ID authenticates inbound e-mail to help verify that it is from the person that it says it is from. Messages that have been authenticated by Sender ID are less likely to be spam and messages that fail Sender ID are more likely to be spam. To help distinguish between verifiable ...

You write the email using your email client. The client may create that email as a text file in a temporary folder on your hard drive. If someone looked at your hard ...

Google's GMail has one of the most robust spam filtering processes in the world. By using Gmail one can put a very strong spam filter check on receiving email. How to configure  You must have two email accounts to start with. If you dont have two email accounts then ask your ISP ...

Zimbra, the enterprise, open-source-based Exchange competitor that runs e-mail services on top of Mac OS X and a variety of Linux flavors, already with over-the-air (OTA) sync to all popular PDAs, and quality desktop connectors to sync iCal, AddressBook, Entourage and Outlook, has now released the very early version of ...

The upgraded Proofpoint Secure Messaging software, slated for availability in June, adds Voltage's identity-based encryption (IBE) technology to the existing content-filtering capabilities, according to company officials. With this addition, Proofpoint's appliances will automatically encrypt email based on policies set by administrators as the messages leave the corporate network. This ability to ...