In early August, a number of very well-known social networking websites were reported to be victims of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. The attacks appear to be linked with a “Joe Job” st...
Over the past two months, MessageLabs Intelligence has been tracking the rise of URL-shortening services appearing in spam emails. With so many of these legitimate services available on the internet, ...
Real Host, an ISP based in Riga, Latvia was alleged to be linked to command-and-control servers for infected botnet computers, as well as being linked to malicious websites, phishing websites and “rog...
The most common trigger for policy-based filtering applied by the MessageLabs Web Security Service for its business clients was the “Advertisements & Popups” category, down by 2.07% since July, to 58....
Spam: In August 2009, the global ratio of spam in email traffic was down by 0.9% from the previous month at 88.5% (1 in 1.13 emails). Hong Kong was the most spammed country in August although levels f...
Welcome to the new MessageLabs Intelligence blog. For a decade the MessageLabs team has been protecting our clients against internet threats. With services across multiple communication channels – ema...
If you have purchased a Symantec product from a retail store (we call this as Box product), it is very important that you register this in the License Portal (https://licensing.symantec.com). Symantec...
Symantec recently released the findings of its 2009 Storage and Security in SMBs survey, which indicate that some small business are neglecting important information safeguards due to tight budgets an...
Today, Symantec will participate in the 2009 Phoenix Awards at the National Small Business Week event in Washington D.C. Since 1998, the Small Business Association has given the Phoenix Award to busin...
AutoPlay It must have seemed like a good idea at the time. Automatically launch a program that’s been discovered by the computer. You don’t have to waste a bunch of mouse clicks to get your music CD o...
