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LiveOffice Corporation's Managed Messaging Services, the leading provider of on-demand messaging security, archiving and compliance solutions, today introduced its Sentinel portal, a web-based administration console that gives organizations fingertip-access to search and retrieve (eDiscovery) archived messages, while providing real-time dashboard views of inbound threats, email volumes and storage utilization. The company also unveiled an aggressive channel strategy that positions LiveOffice for rapid growth during the next 36 months.

"We are the leading message archiving service in the financial services industry -- which today represents most of our revenue. With our enhanced email management solutions now available to all businesses, we anticipate that by 2010 more than 50 perc...

Fortinet® -- the pioneer and leading provider of unified threat management (UTM) solutions -- today announced the top 10 most reported high-risk threats for March 2007. The report, compiled from all FortiGate™ multi-threat security systems in production worldwide, is a service of the Fortinet Global Threat Research Team.

March 2007's top 10 threats, as determined by the degree of prevalence are: The March top 10 list shows a wide-spread phishing attempt against a new financial institution, the return of 180Solutions Adware, and, an unusual entry into the top 10, the Everda rootkit. This rootkit is used to hide file and registry information by patching the kernel service descriptor table. As with any emerging rootkit technology, Everda can cause issues with host-based antivirus or antispyware software, since rootkits are harder to detect once installed.

Most notable this month, the Fortinet Global Security Research Team discovered a new instance of a MySpace "phisher...

eEye Digital Security® is rolling out the most complete Internet security protection available to consumers at any price -- for free. The leading provider of system security software and the foremost contributor to security research and innovation, eEye today announced the release of its latest version of Blink® Personal Internet Security with Anti-virus. For a limited time, eEye is making Blink Personal available as a free 1-year subscription for personal or home office use in North America.

While many vendors have offered free trial versions of their security products to address single security pain points, such as anti-virus or anti-spyware, Blink Personal is the only free integrated Internet security solution to protect users' systems and personal information with: Blink Personal is the first Internet security solution to expose system and application flaws that currently go undetected and unpatched, even when using Microsoft Windows Update. Blink Personal is also th...

Arbor Networks, a provider of core-to-core network security and operational performance for global business networks, today announced a new version of its enterprise solution, Arbor Peakflow X 3.7, that includes new functionality designed to improve time to resolution for enterprise network, security and operations staff.

Peakflow X 3.7 includes integration of data gathered by Arbor's Active Threat Level Analysis System (ATLAS), the world's first globally scoped threat analysis network, dramatically reducing the manual collection and analysis of new vulnerabilities, exploits, botnets and malware. Peakflow X 3.7 also includes an extended audit trail for compliance reporting; enhanced Flow support for IPFIX; a web services Application Programming Interface (API) that allows users to perform data queries and to integrate Peakflow X data with existing internal systems or customer portals; and finally, enhancements to the User Interface that result in more intuitive, efficient workflow...

Cloudmark, Inc., the proven leader in carrier-grade messaging security, today announced the appointment of Michael Williams as chief financial officer. A seasoned financial executive with over twenty-five years of experience in senior financial positions, including a Big 4 CPA public accounting firm pedigree in both the UK and US, international experience with listed companies, and a strong background in entrepreneurial businesses, Williams will help support Cloudmark's growth in the United States and worldwide.

Williams has a proven track record across a variety of industries. Prior to Cloudmark, he worked in professional sports as Controller of the Oakland Raiders NFL football team, in the entertainment industry where Williams was promoted from Controller to Chief Operating Officer of Steady Systems, and in the consumer products industry as Finance Director of Corgi Toys in the UK. While at Corgi Toys, Williams played a leading role in the company's successful integration with Ma...

MessageLabs, a leading provider of integrated messaging and web security services to businesses worldwide, today announced the results of its MessageLabs Intelligence Report for March 2007. Quarter on quarter spam levels have raised to 76.3 percent, their highest in two years. Virus and botnet activity has also increased. The report highlights the impact of increased spam levels on small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs) as these organizations receive more than double the volume of spam per user each month than in enterprise organizations.

While spam levels for the month of March decreased by 2.6 percent from February, MessageLabs saw an overall increase in spam for the first quarter of 2007. Spammers do not distinguish between the sizes of organizations being targeted; smaller businesses will receive just as much spam as larger enterprises but are less likely to have defense systems in place. For small businesses, spam can very quickly become a silent killer, overwhelming the reso...

Cloudmark, the proven leader in real-time messaging security, announced today that it has joined forces with Simplicita, the company that frees carrier networks from zombies and botnets, to equip Internet Service Providers (ISPs) with real-time capabilities to detect and disinfect bot-controlled machines on their networks. Cloudmark will supply continuous data feeds on global botnet activity that will be integrated in Simplicita's ZBX zombie remediation system. The joint solution will offer service providers a highly reliable and accurate method for zombie detection, containment and disinfection.

Cloudmark statistics show that zombies generate more than half of the 92 billion abusive messages sent daily, more than 90% of phishing scams, and nearly all worms and viruses. Computer users are often wholly unaware of these activities and that their corporate and personal reputations may be compromised. Rob Fleischman, chief technology officer at Simplicita predicts that, "Within three ...

A new form of spyware attack by malicious software which uses automated pretexting is among the most recent type of malware identified by security researchers at Prevx, a leading developer of Automated Malware Research. The revelation comes as the security company today announced it had detected and provided protection against more than one million unique malicious programs seen by its community intrusion prevention system since it was launched in July 2005. Prevx's automated malware research identifies new malicious software much faster than conventional vendor research labs which are facing ever growing backlogs as they struggle to cope with the exponential growth in malware volumes.

"Prevx has recorded a sad statistic in capturing data about the millionth unique malware program it has detected and prevented since the project was launched just over one year ago," said Mel Morris, Prevx CEO. "Even more startling is that the increasing volume of malware seen by our community of use...

Messaging security leader Cloudmark estimates service providers worldwide are spending billions of dollars unnecessarily due to missed or mishandled spam, phishing, viruses and other undesirable email. Cloudmark maintains a consistent 98% accuracy rate (defined as percent of malicious messages correctly filtered) in customer deployments and trials. In live networks as well as independent lab testing, Cloudmark maintains 17%-20% higher accuracy than its nearest competitor, an advantage that would save service providers worldwide between $8B and $19B. For example, a single Tier 1 provider with 2 million subscribers could potentially save $17-40M per year with more effective messaging management.

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Having completed ROI analyses for providers with varying business models and in numerous geographic markets, Cloudmark has identified multiple areas of waste, including: maintaining standalone or disparate platforms for combating spam, phishing and viruses; churn &a...

With billions of spam, virus and phishing messages being sent daily from hijacked PCs, messaging security leader Cloudmark, Inc. has launched an extensive effort to help service providers detect, remediate and prevent attacks from computer "zombies." Intelligence and analytics gathered from the global network of service providers protected by Cloudmark automatically identifies zombie activities so providers can quarantine infected PCs and direct users to remediation service partners.

"ISPs need to address the email security threats caused by zombies and botnets," says Richi Jennings, lead analyst for the email security practice at Ferris Research. "However, it's important to address these threats in ways that minimize inconvenience to subscribers -- no ISP wants to alienate their customers. Proactive content filtering and remediation preserves customer relations and email reliability. The insights that Cloudmark can provide into outbound content and unusual spikes in volume are obv...