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Last Updated: Aug 19 2009 - Silobreaker

Fact Sheet for MessageLabs Inc

Name: MessageLabs Inc

Nationality: United States

Contact Address:

20330 Stevens Creek Blvd.
Cupertino, CA 95014
United States

Tel: +1 408 517 8000
Fax: +1 408 517 8186

WebAddress: http://www.messagelabs.co.uk/

General:

MessageLabs, now part of Symantec, provides a range of managed services to protect, control, encrypt and archive electronic communications. Listed as a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant and many other analyst reports, and with more than 21,000 clients ranging from small business to the Fortune 500 located in more than 100 countries, MessageLabs services are widely recognized as a market leader in the messaging and web security market.

Source: http://www.messagelabs.co.uk/

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First Reported Mar 01 2010 - Updated Mar 02 2010 - 6 Documents

Spam plague in February and more to come: Symantec

Global spam volume grows by 25 per cent By MIS Asia writerTools sponsored bySINGAPORE, 2 MARCH 2010 - Spam levels in Hong Kong reached 90.6 per cent and virus activity in China was the highest in the world in February, according to Symantec’s latest ... [Published Mar 02 2010 by MIS-Asia]

Entities: Spam, Symantec Corporation, MessageLabs Inc, Paul Wood

First Reported Feb 25 2010 - Updated Feb 25 2010 - 2 Documents

Paul Wood

New York Times promotion piece used as bait in a global ‘spoofing’ attack

A nefarious cyber attacker, taking advantage of The New York Timesâ€™ vaunted reputation for veracity, has used an online promotional piece pitching â€œTimesReader 2.0â€ as bait in a targeted â€œspoofingâ€ attack, according to MessageLabs Intelligence, ... [Published Feb 25 2010 by Government Security News]

Entities: MessageLabs Inc, Paul Wood, Denmark, Greece

First Reported Feb 28 2010 - Updated Mar 01 2010 - 2 Documents

Email attack spoofs New York Times

Tags: MessageLabs Intelligence New York Times Times ReaderMessageLabs Intelligence tracked a new targeted attack yesterday using emails pretending to be from the New York Times sending out it's 'Times Reader' software hitting six different domains. One ... [Published Mar 01 2010 by Search Security Asia]

Entities: MessageLabs Inc, Virus, Online Gambling, IP Address, Encipher

First Reported Mar 05 2010 - Updated Mar 05 2010 - 1 Documents

Symantec Corporation

The Future of Computer and Network Protection

A little more than a year after MessageLabs, a cloud based spam and malware protection service, was acquired by Symantec and became Symantec Hosted Services , I had a chance to talk to someone from Symantec about the progress they have made and what's ... [Published Mar 05 2010 by TechSoup]

Entities: Symantec Corporation, TechSoup, MessageLabs Inc

First Reported Mar 12 2010 - Updated Mar 12 2010 - 1 Documents

Spam Volume Surges

Symantec has announced the publication of its February 2010 MessageLabs Intelligence Report. Analysis reveals a surge in spam levels in February to 89.4 percent, an increase of 5.5 percent since January mostly due to an increase in spam emanating from ... [Published Mar 12 2010 by Security Matters]

Entities: Spam, MessageLabs Inc, Virus, Phishing, Paul Wood

First Reported Mar 05 2010 - Updated Mar 05 2010 - 1 Documents

Overland introduces next generation Read

email a friendMimecast appoints Jonathan Gale as Senior Vice PresidentAuthor: PHILIP ALSOPNew hire to manage rapid business growth of second generation email SaaS provider.Mimecast has announced the appointment of Jonathan Gale as Senior Vice President ... [Published Mar 05 2010 by SNS UK]

Entities: Mimecast, MessageLabs Inc, Peter Bauer, Software as a Service

First Reported Feb 12 2010 - Updated Feb 12 2010 - 1 Documents

MessageLabs Inc

Securing Email

A MessageLabs white paper, entitled Email on Cruise Control: How to Guarantee Security, Speed and Confidence in Email, looks at the complexity of managing email as a critical business component and the challenges of email security.'Email security in 2010 ... [Published Feb 12 2010 by E-Security Planet]

Entities: MessageLabs Inc, Organic

First Reported Mar 02 2010 - Updated Mar 02 2010 - 1 Documents

Spam continues to surge as URL filtering fails to spot malicious sites

Spam has continued to surge in the early months of 2010, as pornography remains the most prevalent threat vector.In Symantec's February 2010 MessageLabs Intelligence Report, analysis revealed a surge in spam levels in February to 89.4 per cent, an increase ... [Published Mar 02 2010 by SC Magazine UK]

Entities: Spam, MessageLabs Inc, Spam (electronic), Vector, Pornography

First Reported Feb 26 2010 - Updated Feb 26 2010 - 1 Documents

E-mail Backup Options for SMBs

On-premise e-mail servers can fail, data can become corrupted, power can go out for hours or days, offices burn down and natural or man-made disasters can strike. Small Business Computing discusses disaster recovery and business continuity solutions available ... [Published Feb 26 2010 by Enterprise Storage Forum]

Entities: MessageLabs Inc, Disaster, Symantec Corporation, Encipher, Replication

First Reported Mar 02 2010 - Updated Mar 03 2010 - 1 Documents

Symantec E-mail Security Appliances Focus On Targeted Attacks, SMB Markets

Today at RSA, Symantec announced the release of a small business edition with identical feature sets to its Brightmail, but simplified licensing and SMB-scaled pricing. Symantec's latest release for its e-mail security appliances boastsenhanced ability ... [Published Mar 02 2010 by Byte and Switch]

Entities: Symantec Corporation, Brightmail Inc, MessageLabs Inc, Spam, Encryption

First Reported Feb 13 2010 - Updated Feb 13 2010 - 1 Documents

Concern at DDoS sophistication rise

Bot arms race enters new phaseWritten by Mark Mayne (SecurityVibes)0 comment(s) | Subnetwork United Kingdom| | Other ToolsDDoS attacks are hitting the headlines again, as botherders respond aggresively to improved mitigation tools, according to ... [Published Feb 13 2010 by SecurityVibes]

Entities: MessageLabs Inc, Graham Smith, HTTP Secure, Cable & Wireless plc

First Reported Mar 02 2010 - Updated Mar 02 2010 - 1 Documents

Spreading the hosted message

newsmaker He is no military strategist, but Adrian Chamberlain is as likely to delve into the Battle of Waterloo as extol the benefits of hosted offerings.The London-based senior vice president of , who professes to being driven by a fear of failure, ... [Published Mar 02 2010 by ZDNet Asia]

Entities: Symantec Corporation, MessageLabs Inc, Adoption, Encryption, Singapore

Blogs

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Botnets Tighten Their Grip on the Broadband Inf... [GigaOM - Sep 30 2009] How much of a drag is spam putting on the global broadband and messaging infrastructure, and where is it coming from? According to Symantec’s newly released 2009 ...
Botnets Tighten Their Grip on the Broadband Inf... [GigaOM Network - Sep 30 2009] How much of a drag is spam putting on the global broadband and messaging infrastructure, and where is it coming from? According to Symantec’s newly released 2009 ...
Grum, Bobax, Rustock, Maazben, and their friends [Wired: Beyond the Beyond - Oct 05 2009] *Haven’t heard much out of “Storm” lately. I wonder what gives with that. Hi Bruce (((Oh boy, anti-botnet security firm PR here…. okay, bring the noise, I read ...
Gartner Magic Quadrant lawsuit: Sour grapes or ... [ZDNet Blogs - Oct 21 2009] Industry analyst firm, Gartner, is the target of a lawsuit from a software vendor challenging the "legitimacy" of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant rating system. The suit ...
The Gartner Magic Quadrant - a necessary evil i... [BeyondVC - Feb 04 2010] Lately, I feel as if I have been spending an inordinate amount of time with my companies talking about marketing. Related to this, one of my portfolio companies ...