One of my favourite things about the new Ironport platform we have implemented to combat spam on our networks is how it uses a reputation based system to determine how to handle incoming mail.
Update: This article now has an updated Frequently Asked Questions page that supersedes this announcement. You can find this latest information in our IronPort anti-spam migration FAQ
Those of you who managed to catch the teaser posted by our Network Director Phil Webb a couple of days ago, will already be aware that we’ve got a lot in store for the Plusnet email platform over the coming months.
One of the things we’re really excited about is our newly found partnership with security experts IronPort, who’s technology we’ll be using to bring you some of the best spam and virus filtering the industry has to offer.
Other improvements include the the long awaited replacement to our current Webmail platform, and a complete overhaul of both our inbound and outbound email platforms. More…
If, like me, you’ve seen a recent increase in spam emails relating to ‘breaking news’ from both CNN and MSNBC you might be interested to know they are related to a potential flaw in how Firefox displays Flash based adverts.
If you click the URL in the email, you’ll be taken to a website aiming to exploit this by putting a rogue URL in your clipboard, so next time you paste a link in and click ‘go’ you’ll be taken to a site advertising rogue anti-virus software.
More details available at the Beeb: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7567889.stm
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It’s been a while since we last provided an update about our anti-spam platform back at the beginning of February. Since then you’d be forgiven for thinking that it’s all been a bit quiet on spam front, but rest assured we’ve definitely not been been resting on our laurels. Over the last two months our developers and network engineers have been busy beavering away at the configuration, code and script changes that will allow us to introduce the functionality promised when we last blogged about the subject.
You may recall back in November we announced our partnership with email security experts Postini. We’ve steadily been migrating customers across to the new anti-spam platform and we now have just under three quarters of our customers with their email being filtered by the new Postini systems. More…
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