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Tuning Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam on UltraSPARC T1 and T2 Processor-Powered Servers: Electronic mail is a business-critical function in virtually every enterprise, and it is also one that is under constant attack. Well-known viruses such as Melissa, and worms like SoBig have propagated through email and have disrupted user PCs and corporate networks worldwide. Fraudulent email messages find their ways into inboxes...; Tags: Symantec Corp., T2, Anti-spam, Sun Microsystems Inc., T1, Sun UltraSPARC, Server, E-mail Message, Brightmail Inc., E-mail, Phishing, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing; White papers 2007-12-07
Symantec Brightmail Antispam 6.0 Evaluation Guide: Service Provider Edition: Off late more than 300 million email users are protected by Symantec's antispam and email security technologies. Over 2,500 businesses, governments, and organizations - including more than 90 service providers such as EarthLink, HotMail, MSN, Telstra, Terra Mexico - worldwide have embraced Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam. Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam 6.0 is...; Tags: Symantec Corp., Brightmail Inc., Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam 6.0, Security; White papers 2005-01-01
Brightmail tackles zombies: Brightmail tackles zombies80% is good, however.....Brightmail is on the right track in my opinion but they are lacking the necessary link in taking the next step. That is notification to the zombie or it's ISP provider a notification email so that they can clean up their act. What the entire...; Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), E-mail, PRODUCTIVITY, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, Cryptology, Brightmail Inc., zombie; Discussion threads 2004-07-02
Symantec to buy Brightmail: Symantec to buy BrightmailOKAnother company bought buy a MS proxy :); Tags: Brightmail Inc., Symantec Corp.; Discussion threads 2004-05-19
The Spam Problem and the Brightmail Filtering Engine: The latest generation of spam incorporates sophisticated tactics such as extreme randomization, origin concealment, and filter evasion using HTML. Spammers continue to try to escape filtering, raising the stakes. This white paper describes how Brightmail's research and development groups continually adapt filtering software to challenge spammers and screen out their...; Tags: Brightmail Inc., Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing; White papers 2004-02-23

Brightmail says 60% of e-mail is spam: Making a 2% leap into the new year, spam accounted for 60% - or 51 billion messages of the 85 billion e-mails filtered by Brightmail's Probe Network.Percentages of Total Internet E-mail Identified as SpamJanuary 2004 60%December 2003 58%November 2003 56%October 2003 52%September 2003 54%August 2003 50%July 2003 50%June 2003 49%May...; Tags: Brightmail Inc.; Blog posts 2004-02-04
Can Spam--a good first act: Can Spam--a good first actI hope I'm wrongBut the only thing I see this law will accomplished is to abolish some state laws that had a chance of doing some good."legitimate direct marketers"??? BWAH-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!!Right. "legitimate direct marketers". Look for that on the web.... they're listed on the same...; Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, OK Here, spam, CAN-SPAM Act, legitimate direct marketer, e-mail, direct marketer, Brightmail Inc.; Discussion threads 2003-12-12
Ruling Out Spam With Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam and Help From Capital Technologies Ltd. Saves a Law Firm $323,000 a Year: Spam makes up as much as 50 percent of the email that New Zealand law firm Kensington Swan receives each day. A custom antispam solution stopped 30 percent of that spam, but users still had to spend around 10 minutes a day deleting unwanted email, some of which was obscene,...; Tags: Symantec Corp., Anti-spam, Brightmail Inc., Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing; Case studies
Quadrupling the Catch Rate of Image-Based Spam With Symantec Brightmail Helps Keep Inboxes Spam-Free at Leading Email Service Provider: USA.NET, a message service hosting provider, saw the quality of its message services threatened by a jump in image-based spam in late 2006. Symantec analysts developed new tools and techniques for an antispam solution that more than quadrupled the catch rate for image-based spam. This virtually eliminated it from USA.NET...; Tags: Symantec Corp., E-mail, USA.NET, Brightmail Inc., Security; Case studies

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HP exec 'offended' by my conclusion that he deleted a SF official's e-mail: In case you haven't been following Testbed this last 7-10 days, an Australian researcher released evidence that laser printers might be hazardous to your health, finding a good number of HP LaserJets that were sources of potentially carcinogenic emissions other manufacturers were scathed as well. In the course of discrediting...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Spam Filter, Spam, E-mail, David Berlind; Blog posts 2007-08-13
Symantec goes for more share of wallet: Symantec plans to acquire Altiris for $830 million ($33 per share) in cash. Altiris brings IT asset management into the Symantec portfolio as the company continues to reach out beyond its security roots. Symantec has grown through billions of dollars in acquisitions over the last ten years--Relicore, IMlogic, Bindview, Sygate,...; Tags: SECURITY, Symantec Corp.; Blog posts 2007-01-30
Osterman Research: A Comparison of Leading Messaging Management Tools: To understand organizations' perceptions about various email management systems, Sunbelt Software engaged Osterman Research to survey organizations that are using five different email management systems including Barracuda Spam Firewall, GFI MailEssentials, McAfee GroupShield for Microsoft Exchange, and Symantec Brightmail. This white paper presents the results of that survey, comparing Sunbelt...; Tags: Osterman Research, Messaging, Survey, Sunbelt Software, Tool, E-mail, Groupware, Viruses And Worms, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Security; White papers 2006-12-01
Phishing Attacks in and Around April Through September 2006: This paper describes phishing trends from April 2006 through September 2006 inclusive. The aim is to perform the kind of careful analysis done in the Symantec Internet Security Threat Report, but with a focus on phishing. The authors looked at data that originated from both the Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam and...; Tags: Symantec Corp., Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing; White papers 2006-11-30
Prescribing a Symantec Solution Restores Email Health and Saves Over $850,000 a Year: Email at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is critical to delivering quality care. With soaring email volume, it began to generate significant management costs. Faced with the need to purchase 15 Microsoft Exchange servers annually to accommodate burgeoning growth in email, Cedars-Sinai deployed Symantec Enterprise Vault software. And seeking to manage myriad...; Tags: Symantec Corp., Enterprise Messaging Management Solution, E-mail, Security, Online Communications; Case studies 2006-09-26
Microsoft DEP kills Microsoft LiveMeeting: Microsoft DEP kills Microsoft LiveMeetingGood to hear who reads your blog.Atleast you know Microsoft has their eyes on you and will try and fix your problems. Although the DEP bit is a bit of a problem. As you said before, hardware DEP is the way to go.hmmchances are...; Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., data execution prevention, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office Live Meeting; Discussion threads 2006-05-11
Comcast's Magnificent Seven: A deal too good to pass up?: As the summer winds down and I'm trying to beat the Fall rush of, well everything that goes with Fall, I've been trying to get my digital house in order and one of the items of my ToDo list has been to sort through all the services that my...; Tags: Comcast Corp.; Blog posts 2005-08-29
Symantec CEO sees beyond security: Unlike the Oracle/PeopleSoft deal--two companies with overlapping products--Symantec's acquisition of Veritas is about scaling two loosely coupled product domains. Rob Lemos interviews Symantec CEO John Thompson about his company's move to gain scale, venturing beyond its native security space. It will make an interesting case study some day... Recent Symantec buysMay 2004:...; Tags: Symantec Corp.; Blog posts 2004-12-16
The days of consolidation: Oracle buys PeopleSoft. Symantec buys Veritas. Microsoft buys anti-spyware tools.The list goes on. Computing technology is reaching a kind of plateau, where the concepts that underly the base IT infrastructure are fairly mature. In this stage of IT evolution -- which will last a few years -- vendors and customers alike...; Tags: information technology; Blog posts 2004-12-16
64% of May e-mail was spam: About 64% of e-mail monitored in May by spam-filtering company Brightmail was spam. That is up from 58% in December, Brightmail says. What that means for the bottom line: It costs companies nearly $2,000 per employee a year in lost productivity, double from a year ago, Nucleus Research says. Russian...; Tags: RUSSIAN, Yandex, spam; Blog posts 2004-06-27
Net visionary urges e-mail ID standard: Net visionary urges e-mail ID standardFine tuned payment would restrain spam and protect anonymityFine tuned payment would restrain spam and protect anonymity The problem is applying the principle, basic in civilized people, that the cost of any decision has to be supported by the person who made it - here,...; Tags: Cyberthreats, Mailblocks.com, e-mail, spam, white list; Discussion threads 2004-06-18