Archive for the ‘Email (spam and Malware)’ Category
Friday, February 5th, 2010
When is email spam or ham?
We all send silly emails to our friends and colluges...but last December one young London woman got the fright of her life when she found that her email had suddenly gone viral!
Holly Leam-Taylor, a trainee at the London office of Deloitte planned an awards ceremony to ...
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
The emailcloud network processes plenty of data every day. Over the past few months we have been trying to make some of this data public so that other people can use it and last year we published some of this data in the form of a map of worldwide spam locations. ...
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Monday, January 4th, 2010
[caption id="attachment_491" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Alleged spammer Lance Atkinson (left) and his lawyer Darrell Kake (right) leave the Federal Court in Brisbane after the trial. Photo: Scott Casey"][/caption]
Almost every country in the world has drafted legislation that penalises spammers. We feel that these laws are not strong enough as they focus ...
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Monday, December 14th, 2009
We released emailcloud in September 2007. At that time we were using only a few virtual servers on the Amazon AWS network. Since then we have grown our own network by co-locating lorry loads of servers in data centres in Newcastle, Liverpool, Dublin and the USA.
The route to market for ...
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Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
Since the release of our email spam and virus protection service (emailcloud) in September 2007 we have signed up over 1200 SME’s on the system. Our first 1,000 customers took 23 months to register, but since then sales have been very brisk, for example in October we signed up 138 ...
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Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
As part of some ongoing research into the behaviour of spammers we have started capturing the geographic location of spammers in a way that we can visualise it on a map. This map shows the source of spam attacks on our emailcloud network.
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The map is ...
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Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
Our emailcloud protection system filters spam and viruses from email. Over the past few years we have seen rates of spam increasing from around 50% a few years ago to an average of 95%...but yesterday was special....we reached 99% spam on one of our spam clusters!
This graph represents the traffic ...
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Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Google have announced the imminent release of a new communication and collaborate tool called Google Wave (http://wave.google.com). This is a technology that was developed by Lars & Hans Rasmussen and a team of Google developers in Sidney Australia. I watched the 80 minute demo of the tool that Lars Rasmussen gave at ...
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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
After nearly a year of planning and several months of testing we have finally launched our Hosted Exchange service!
The service will be sold at £8.50 per user per month and includes:
Exchange 2007 Mailbox
2GB Total Diskspace per user (optional upgrade to 4Gb)
1 x Public Folder per user
Full Outlook functionality
Full support for iPhone ...
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Friday, March 20th, 2009
[caption id="attachment_208" align="alignright" width="225" caption="Array 5, the Union Rep at emailcloud"][/caption]
Our emailcloud email operations will undergo a significant change in working practices effective immediately. These changes will impact on all customers of our spam protection service.
After lengthy negotiations with the union who represent 90% of our computer servers we have ...
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