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Content security specialist Clearswift has had a 40 percent year on year growth in new licence revenue driven by increasing market demand for its Email and Web Appliances.
With the emergence of new attack techniques and the reinvention of old ones, 2008 has been a year of cybercriminal innovation. Internet fraudsters did not wait long to capitalise on the election of Barack Obama, flooding inboxes on Wednesday with malware spam. Democratic Nominee Senator Barack Obama has been showing up in seven times more spam emails than his US presidential election rival, Republican nominee Senator John McCain. A New York court has sentenced a persistent spammer to 30 months in prison. Spammers are using increasingly inventive ways to circumvent email systems and find their way into inboxes. A Chinese man has been sentenced to two years in jail after hacking a Red Cross web site launched for the victims of China's recent earthquake. Employers must face the fact that a lot of online shopping takes place at the office, and it can put an entire business network at risk. Mega-D, set off a firestorm of speculation, recently. What family of malware was behind this previously unknown botnet? How had it emerged to challenge Storm with hardly a mention in any research articles or press? The US Federal Trade Commission is warning businesses to be on the lookout for spam that contains a trojan-laden attachment claiming to be a legal complaint against recipient. Spammers have turned to ZIP files to push pump-and-dump scam emails past filters, researchers said this week. Anti-spam firm ClearMyMail has claimed 100 percent protection against PDF spam, as spammers change their tactics in a bid to flood mailboxes.
Murky world of online pharmaceuticals laid bare in IronPort research. Phishing attacks that target high-value assets are increasing, according to researchers at Verisign's iDefense Labs. During the past year, waves of attacks have risen from three or four a month to as many as 10 per month. Panda’s GateDefender Integra comes as a complete-package UTM with many good features. These include a firewall, VPN, IPS, malware protection at the gateway using heuristics, spam and phishing protection at the gateway, plus a web content filter. Large-scale data breaches across both the private and public sectors dominated the news throughout the year. Rob Buckley looks back. Spam levels reached an all time high last month, according to the latest figures by SoftScan. One of the world's most reputed spammers, who used his botnet army to deliver up to billions of junk emails each day, was indicted Wednesday in a US District Court in Seattle. The use of image spam continues to grow, now accounting for as much as two-thirds of all spam, security researchers said this week. Mega-D botnet creators have set up new command and control servers and re-established their connections.