ISPs have been urged to act in their own interests to cut out junk mail, with anti-spam firm Brightmail producing figures which show customers have now grown intolerant of the inbox clutter and are ready to switch ISPs in search of protection from...
According to spam-fighter Brightmail, unsolicited bulk mail volumes skyrocketed last year, now accounting for close to a third of all traffic on the internet, up from just eight per cent in mid-2001. A handful of companies, including Brightmail and...
Last month, Enrique Salem, CEO and president of anti-spam firm Brightmail, predicting the fact that spam would hit the 50 per cent mark, told silicon.com: "We are going to see a situation where more than 50 per cent of email is spam.
Security firm Symantec is planning to pay $370m to acquire anti-spam and email filtering company Brightmail. Brightmail, which filed the preliminary paperwork for an initial public offering in March, reported a net income of about $1.1m on revenue...
Speaking in June 2003, Enrique Salem, then CEO of Brightmail, now SVP security products at Symantec, told silicon.com he believed spam would die out within three years. He argued that if everybody put their faith in a proven anti-spam solution then...
Unsurprisingly, they had an immediate and devastating impact on spam levels and in 2003 the volume of spam surpassed legitimate email for the first time, according to anti-spam company Brightmail. In 2003, anti-spam legislation was starting to be...