The majority of businesses don’t feel adequately protected from the multitude of security threats and business risks posed by email today and many are not taking concerted action to protect themselves, according to a  survey of IT security professionals commissioned by MessageLabs.

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Infosec Europe starts tommorow and runs through to Thursday.  This huge show at Olympia London is definately worth a visit and has a large number of Security providers listed, here we list the anti spam companies attending:

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If you have a blog, read a blog, or heck, have even heard of a blog, then you are probably familiar with blog spam.

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According to anti-spam organisation Spamhaus, loopholes in the UK law render legislation useless in the ongoing battle against spammers.

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chongqed.org is trying to fight wiki, blog and guestbook spam. They do this by linking the spammers’ keywords to pages that contain information about spam and the spammer. We hope that these pages documenting the spamming will be higher up on the search engine results pages than the pages of the spammers.

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Symantec today released the public beta version of its Internet security solution that provides broad protection from spyware and adware to home users.

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Last week Aunty reported that California Attorney General Bill Lockyer’s office, through Deputy Attorney General Ian Sweedler, had teamed up with the FTC to nail spammers Rick Yang and Peonie Pui Ting Chen, operating out of Los Angeles as Optin Global, Inc. and Vision Media Limited Corp..

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Microsoft on Tuesday released eight security patches, five of them critical, as part of their April security update.

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Websense warned webblogs are being used to harbour malicious code such as Trojans and keyloggers.

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Just when you thought spammers couldn’t stoop any lower they are now exploiting the death of Pope John Paul II in an effort to sell a get-rich-quick scheme

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