Three-quarters of businesses surveyed said they believe viruses will become more dangerous, while two-thirds believe the frequency of attacks will increase, according to research conducted by MessageLabs.
Research by email security firm MessageLabs has revealed that spammers are targeting companies and individuals with unsolicited messages that have subject lines containing names, familiar words or phrases that have been stolen from the victim's...
Formerly known under the working title of 'Operation Endurance', Get Safe Online is a joint venture between the public and private sector, including the Cabinet Office, The National Hi-Tech Crime Unit and companies such as BT, Dell, eBay, HSBC...
As worms and viruses such as SoBig, MSBlast and MyDoom continue to propagate through millions of networks throughout the world, the need for technology to keep those elements off networks has increasingly become important.
Paul Wood, chief information analyst at MessageLabs, said: “Sobig.C is the latest in a recent spate of mass mailers and is proof that the problem of virus outbreaks has not gone away - we have seen over 15 new viruses in the past month, and...
Like the Sobig viruses, Bagle.B is capable of sending its own email out, which means that it can efficiently create a steady stream of infected messages. Email security firm MessageLabs said it stopped about 17,000 copies of the attachment in email...