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Social media spam at two year high, warns AppRiver

Industrious spam writers get busy in August and Europe is the worst perpetrator

London: While many will have taken a break over the summer months, spam writers were hard at work plying their craft. That's the warning from AppRiver, the cloud-based email and Web security specialist, in its latest Global Threatstate Report. It quarantined almost 3.5 billion spam messages during the month of August - the highest level of spam traffic that it has seen since early 2011. While AppRiver's researchers couldn't pinpoint an exact driver for the rise, what was noticeable is that a high percentage of messages were offering weight loss cures. Could global obesity problems translate to big bucks for spammers?

: Dulcie McLerie; InfoSecurity; Posted On Friday, 11 October 2013 08:34

Complete Security and New Hardware: gateprotect at the GITEX in Dubai

Hamburg: The German IT security specialist gateprotect and the distributor Comguard are showcasing several innovations at the GITEX in Dubai. From 20 to 24 October 2013 in hall 1 at booth C1 – 9A at the most important technology trade fair of the Middle East and Asia, gateprotect will be presenting “Complete Security”, a new sophisticated endpoint solution, as well as the new hardware equipment of the next generation firewalls that have been honored with several awards.

: ZOE DAVIES, REALWIRE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH VIGILANCE; InfoSecurity; Posted On Friday, 11 October 2013 08:18

Government urged to support new regulatory regime for private security industry

In a letter to Government Ministers, the Security Regulation Alliance has called for unanimous support of the proposed new regulatory regime for the private security industry, and urged them to consider the benefits of security regulation against the backdrop of the Government’s wider deregulatory agenda, Vigilance can report.

: JOHN ODEY ADUMA, EDITOR; The BSIA Page; Posted On Thursday, 10 October 2013 08:19

IGEL simplifies firmware and licensing for its Universal Desktop range of thin clients

Reading, UK: IGEL Technology has today simplified its firmware and licensing for its Universal Desktop range of thin clients. Moving forward, IGEL Linux 5, the newest version of IGEL firmware, will also be the software basis for all Linux thin clients and IGEL's popular Universal Desktop Converter (UDC) migration software.