Clever Phishers Dodge Spoofed Site Shutdowns

Clever Phishers Dodge Spoofed Site Shutdowns

Fraudsters are using a new technique to keep their spoofed Web sites up and running even as authorities pull the plug, a security expert said this week. According to RSA Security's Naftali Bennett, the senior vice president of its Cyota anti-fraud division, some phishers have started using a tactic called "smart site redirection" to stay a step ahead of the law.

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- read full story from messagingpipeline.com, March 10 2006

Lighthouse Unveils Open Source Message Archiving Software

Stamford, CT, has brought out an open source electronic message archiving program to aid in regulatory compliance and legal discovery. The new E-Trail Digital Archive software captures e-mail, instant messages, faxes and other unstructured data using one of three methods: real-time capture, batch capture or backfilling from archive media in any format. In all cases the product uses single instance storage on the message as well as each attachment.

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- read full story from messagingpipeline.com, March 10 2006

Clearwell And HP Provide Energy Company With E-mail Archiving And Discovery

E-mail discovery vendor Clearwell Systems Inc. said it has partnered with Hewlett-Packard to integrate its Clearwell Email Intelligence Platform with the HP Reference Information Storage System (RISS) for a Fortune 200 energy company.

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- read full story from messagingpipeline.com, March 10 2006

Feds suggest 21-day deadline for Google subpoena
The U.S. Justice Department has set a suggested deadline for Google to hand over information about its users' search habits: 21 days. In court documents submitted Thursday to U.S. District Judge James Ware in San Jose, Calif., federal prosecutors said they need a prompt response because of the compressed schedule of the case. They're asking Ware to set a 21-day deadline that would begin as soon as he makes a decision.
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- read full story from ZDNet Technology News, March 10 2006
Free toolbar to sniff out spam
Web surfers can already download browser plug-ins like the Netcraft toolbar or SiteAdviser, which evaluate the trustworthiness of the Web sites they visit, but the CipherTrust TrustedSource Toolbar is the first such product designed for e-mail clients, according to the Atlanta-based company.
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- read full story from Infoworld.com, March 10 2006
Google Nets Web-Based Word Processor
Any doubts concerning whether Google is serious about challenging Microsoft's Office word processing software can be quelled. The search giant this week purchased Silicon Valley startup Upstartle, which makes Writely, a collaborative word processor that runs in a Web browser.
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- read full story from internetnews.com, March 10 2006
Spam Rises Again: 73 Percent Of All E-Mail
After several months of slipping spam rates, junk mail rebounded during February, message filtering company Postini said Tuesday. According to Postini's data, spam grew by two percent over the previous month

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- read full story from messagingpipline.com, March 9 2006


Cloudmark's New Fingerprinting Detects E-mail Viruses
Messaging security vendor Cloudmark Inc. today unveiled a new anti-virus fingerprinting algorithm said to disassemble executable code to generate fingerprints that identify new worms and virus strains in real time.
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- read full story from messagingpipline.com, March 13 2006