The information security officer for a network of healthcare centers in New York found an employee sending confidential payroll information to a recruiter. A California-based semiconductor manufacturing technology provider caught a worker e-mailing PowerPoint slides detailing product plans to a former colleague at a competitor to show off the "cool things" he was working on. A network administrator for a school district in Indiana nabbed a student trying to finagle school lunch account information stored on an off-limits server.
Security vendor SurfControl has announced a pair of managed services for Web and e-mail security, taking advantage of technology it acquired with its purchase of BlackSpider Technologies earlier this year.
Messaging security vendor Cloudmark on Monday announced a service designed to help ISPs and enterprises catch and clean PCs on their networks that have been infected by zombies.
Sophos has announced an integrated suite of security products aimed to help SMBs better protect themselves from malicious attacks.
Secure Computing announced Wednesday a new version of its IronMail messaging security appliance that works with Workshare's compliance technology.
MX Logic on Monday announced plans to complement its e-mail security managed service with an offering designed to protect organizations from malicious code found on the Web.
Web security company, Websense, has announced plans to integrate PortAuthority Technologies' information leak- prevention technology into its product line.
The latest worm to infect instant-messaging networks is aptly named Heartworm.
The industry is learning more and more about tricks used by spammers to get their unwanted messages across, as evidenced by a handful of research studies made public this month from university and vendor labs. But even as their tricks are revealed, spammers continue to stay a step ahead of the filters, techniques and services designed to catch them.
Habeas earlier this week announced the latest version of its e-mail monitoring service designed to help legitimate senders increase the delivery rates of their e-mail campaigns.
Security vendor Sigaba announced this week upgrades to its e-mail security and statement-generation software packages.
IBM's Venture Capital Group is ramping up its efforts to help startups bring products to market by enhancing access to the computer giant's technology and expertise.
IBM on Tuesday introduced new software in its Tivoli line designed to help users better manage their grid environments. The announcement was made at the GridWorld conference in Washington, D.C.
SonicWall announced Tuesday a new version of the e-mail security gateway software and appliance it acquired upon purchasing MailFrontier earlier this year.
Proofpoint this week plans to announce a version of its e-mail security product for VMware virtual machine environments.