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Channel makes huge revenues on spam

Posted on May 25, 2021 by - News

Channel revenue sales for anti-spam products have increased by 524 percent according to a recent Context report.

The analyst firm’s figures for revenue through European IT distribution placed cloud security as the highest performer, logging growth of more than 22 percent as companies armed themselves against the rise in cyberattacks.

Data protection grew 102 percent and mail security increased by 30 percent. Cloudy control management recorded a revenue surge of just over 104 percent.

Canadian’s club spammer

Posted on March 6, 2015 by - News

mountie-maintain-rightManon Bombardier, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission’s (CRTC’s) Chief Compliance and Enforcement Officer has fined an outfit $1.1 million for spamming.

Compu-Finder has 30 days to object or pay up.

After an investigation, CRTC found Compu-Finder sent out spam in which the unsubscribe mechanisms did not function properly.
The emails sent by Compu-Finder promoted various training courses to businesses,

The four violations happened last year between July 2, 2014 and September 16, 2014. Compu-Finder spam accounted for 26 per cent of all complaints submitted last year.

Canada’s anti-spam legislation was adopted by Parliament on December 2010 and came into force on July 1, 2014.

Bombardier said that Compu-Finder flagrantly violated the basic principles of the law by continuing to send unsolicited commercial electronic messages after the law came into force to email addresses it found by scouring websites.

Complaints submitted to the Spam Reporting Centre clearly indicate that consumers didn’t find Compu-Finder’s offerings relevant to them, he said.

Spam drowns business mail

Posted on October 7, 2014 by - News

Penny Blacks - Wikimedia CommonsA survey showed that 69 percent of organisations polled report that day to day business operations are severely disrupted by spam related incidents.

GFI Software commissioned the independent report that surveyed 200 IT decision makers.

Thirty six percent of the respondents said they have been affected up to three times in a year, meaning expense if PCs and servers need to be cleaned or re-installed after malware has been opened and executed by people.

Some respondents – 15 percent – said tthey had major spam related IT failures over 10 times in the last year.

The most common types of spam is phishing – 49 percent of respondents said it was the most prevalent type of spam.

Banking spam from real companies is the second biggest problem at 44 percent.

Third was dating site spam. 34 percent of respondents said it was their main worry.

And 56 percent surveyed said they’d notice a rise in spam levels over the past year.

Sergio Galindo, general manager at GFI software said crooks are using spam more and more to throw malware into the workplace for malicious reasons, to hold companies to ransom or to steal information that can be used for fraud.