Reading Time: 3 minutes Spam which was once just annoying is now developed to attack organizations causing security data breaches to drive profits through massive attack. Spams are unsolicited emails with the intent to infect computers and steal information. Spam mails are crafted like genuine-looking emails claiming to be from an authorized organization. However, it holds a malicious attachment…

Reading Time: 3 minutes With the online space evolving into a global marketplace businesses from around the world are trying to capitalise on the internet to tap their new customers and to engage with their existing ones. Besides this benefit, the internet has also provided room for online fraudsters to entice unwary users into phishing scams and make them…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Ever since the advent of the internet, information security has become a serious matter of concern for many, especially, when people communicate and transfer a lot of information data online from one side of the world to the other. Particularly, when customers key in their banking details such as credit card/debit card numbers or net…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Spamming refers to use of an electronic messaging system to send unsolicited messages especially advertising messages to a group of recipients. Unsolicited messages mean the recipient did not grant permission for those message to be sent. Anti-spam refers to the use of any software, hardware or process to block spam from entering a system. The…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Anti-spam Technology Anti-spam technology refers to services and solutions that aim at blocking and then mitigating the effects of illegal emails, also known as spam, on email users. This goal is achieved by incorporating different types of anti-spam systems with the email systems of a number of email and Internet service providers (ISP). Modern anti-spam…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Spamming refers to use of an electronic messaging system such as e-mails, digital delivery systems or any other broadcast media to transmit unsolicited messages particularly advertising messages to a group of recipients. In all cases, the recipient does not authorize for receiving those messages. Besides that, most of the spam emails contain viruses, adware, or…

Reading Time: 2 minutes As spam continues to evolve, conventional on-premise anti-spam solutions are failing to keep up with the ever-evolving spam issue. These anti-spam products often struggle to handle large spam volumes due to fixed hardware space limits. Once the amount of spam exceeds the threshold limits, these anti-spam solutions quickly become overloaded and lag. These on-premise anti-spam…

Reading Time: 2 minutes In today’s digital era, Email and Web have become the most common form of business communications. Emails have a very high impact on every aspect of an organization as enterprises use them for their primary communications between management, staff, clients, vendors, etc. Email-based threats such as viruses, spam, Trojans, spyware, phishing attacks are also on…

Reading Time: 5 minutes Email spam is not only annoying but also dangerous to users. So, what is email spam? Email spam is nothing but junk email or unsolicited bulk emails sent through the email system. It refers to the use of an email system to send unsolicited emails especially advertising emails to a group of recipients. Unsolicited emails…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Spamming refers to sending unsolicited messages through electronic messaging systems. Besides consuming the corporate email bandwidth, unwanted or unsolicited emails also negatively impact employee productivity. Enterprises will thus have to keep the spamming problem in check. If this is not done, then spam can indeed result in a number of problems. The problem of receiving…