MessageLabs

Using social media, organizations now have increased capabilities to interact with their many stakeholders. For example, department heads can run blog postings on social media sites to discuss current issues or introduce new services. However, while social-media sites enable a single person or department to interact with potentially millions of people, widespread access to social media tools within an organization can also raise numerous problems.

I continue to get a lot of emails that say I won in a lottery, or that my bank wants to verify my details, or that a friend lost his wallet and is in dire need of cash to come back hoome. Phishing remains a common form of deception that email software can't filter out. Why?

This Symantec Hosted Services - MessageLabs white paper focuses on the emergence of covert information theft as a key tactic of malware propagators. Most importantly, the paper highlights the crucial danger points for any business that doesn’t defend itself against viruses which operate in the background.

One of the online scams that MessageLabs Intelligence took a look at recently was how the advertised price per 100 mg of the medication used to treat male impotence and commonly exploited in spam messages has changed over the past year and how the spammers may have been affected by last year’s financial crisis.

Companies are seeing a dramatic rise in spam mails. Some like Caltex China have managed to successfully ward off these grisly spam attacks, thanks to the implementation of a MessageLabs managed security service.

As the news headlines warn of the impact that renewed swine flu outbreaks may have on the tentative economic recovery, another pandemic is already underway on the worldwide web. The number of malware-infected sites polluting the web has grown at a startling pace. MessageLabs estimates that internet users around the world now make over 100 million visits to malicious URLs every single month. It’s a genuine web security pandemic.

The cold weather brings with it concerns about a resurgence in H1N1 and H5N1 - two scourges of the 21st century. Though not a solution to the health problem, the Web offers a potential to mitigate a pandemic.

The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) advances its industry through advocacy, education, professional certification and lifelong learning. With healthcare information going digital, the AHIMA needed a secure and worry-free approach to moving data securely and reliably between users and the data center. IT discovered that scanning and removing email viruses was taking too much time away from ongoing application development. This paper looks at the innovative business/IT approach that AHIMA took to solve its email security problem.