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Google delivers twice the amount of malware than Twitter, Yahoo and Bing combined
According to Barracuda Networks' Barracuda Labs 2010 Midyear Security Report, Google delivers twice more malware than Yahoo!, Twitter and Bing combined.
Barracuda Labs conducted the study across Google, Twitter, Yahoo! and Bing, over a roughly two-month period. The analysis reviews more than 25,000 trending topics and nearly 5.5 million search results. The purpose of the study was to analyse trending topics on popular search engines to understand the scope of the problem and to identify the types of topics used by malware distributors.
Key highlights from the search engine study include:
* Overall, Google takes the crown for malware distribution – turning up more than twice the amount of malware as Bing, Twitter and Yahoo! combined when searches on popular trending topics were performed. Google presents at 69 per cent; Yahoo! at 18 per cent; Bing at 12 per cent; and Twitter at one per cent.
* The average amount of time for a trending topic to appear on one of the ma... [ more ]
Cloudmark's Cloudfilter protects Digiweb's customers from spam
Cloudmark, Inc.'s hosted and managed messaging security solution, CloudFilter™, has been chosen to provide email security for the protection against spam, phishing and viruses to customers of Ireland’s largest hosting provider, Digiweb. The solution will be offered to more than 48,000 web hosting, domain and data centre customers across Ireland.
Digiweb chose Cloudmark’s CloudFilter solution because of its innovative technology and industry-leading reputation. CloudFilter will allow Digiweb to offer its customers a professionally hosted, managed and secure email service, and will be the first in a proposed suite of cloud-based solutions that Digiweb plans to roll out over the course of 2010. Digiweb has already signed up numerous customers to the service and anticipates that demand will continue to be high.
The CloudFilter solution enables web hosting and email providers to offer premium email services, backed by industry-leading messaging security. CloudFilter delivers zero-hou... [ more ]
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