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MailChannels in March Issue (pdf) of Virus Bulletin

2008-03-03T12:49:00.000-08:00

Ken Simpson, How Inbound Traffic Control Improves Spam Filtering, March 2008, Virus Bulletin. Copyright is held by Virus Bulletin Ltd, but is made available on this site for personal use free of charge by permission of Virus Bulletin.

MailChannels Joins MAAWG

2008-02-06T16:02:00.000-08:00

MailChannels is pleased to announce that it has joined the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG), a global organization focusing on preserving electronic messaging from online exploits and abuse with the goal of enhancing user trust and confidence, while ensuring the deliverability of legitimate messages. Join MailChannels CEO, Ken Simpson, at the next MAAWG conference in San Francisco, February 18 - 20, 2008.

Exchange and Email Spam Control with Connection Management (webcast)

2007-11-14T17:35:00.000-08:00

Watch the on demand webcast of MailChannels CEO, Ken Simpson as he speaks with messaging analyst Osterman Research about why conventional spam-blocking techniques are ineffective against today's spam tactics.

2007-11-12T10:20:00.000-08:00

MailChannels Launches New Blog Dedicated to Anti-Spam
The new blog is poised to cut through the clutter surrounding email security issues and deliver timely information on emerging spammer tactics. Subscribe to the RSS feed here.

2007-10-24T22:16:00.000-07:00

USENIX LISA '07
Join MailChannels' CEO Ken Simpson at the annual 21st Large Installation System Administration Conference, where he is giving an invited talk on using throttling and traffic shaping to combat spam.

2007-09-05T14:13:00.000-07:00

Virus Bulletin Conference
See MailChannels' Technical Advisor John Graham-Cumming speak on "The Spammers' Compendium: five years on"

2007-07-25T14:58:00.000-07:00

Fourth Conference on Email and Anti-Spam
Join MailChannels' CEO Ken Simpson at this annual conference on anti-spam technology

2007-07-11T09:53:00.000-07:00

Former CTO of Lotus blogs about MailChannels Traffic Control
On a personal note, I am able to report that I have been running an instance of Traffic Control in my own network for four months, and that it has reduced the volume of spam hitting my boundary MTAs on most days by approximately 95%.

2007-05-30T08:00:00.000-07:00

MailChannels Appoints Leading Security Experts to Technical Advisory Board
Technology Experts to Bring Practical Experience and Visionary Leadership to MailChannels

2007-05-24T14:04:00.000-07:00

VIDEO: EU Spam Symposium
Watch MailChannels' Technical Advisor John Graham-Cumming give his talk entitled, "So, will filters kill spam?"

2007-05-23T12:05:00.000-07:00

MailChannels advisor Justin Mason to speak at MAAWG Dublin
Find out what leading carriers and vendors are doing about email security and see MailChannels' technical advisor and SpamAssassin author Justin Mason give his keynote speech on new SpamAssassin features

2007-04-10T10:20:00.000-07:00

New Technology Aims to Bore Impatient Spammers
Spammers are impatient, so a Canadian company has developed new technology to capitalize on that impatience to cut the volume of unwanted e-mail messages flooding the Internet.

2007-04-07T06:00:00.000-07:00

Cloudmark and Mailchannels Partner to deliver Traffic Control With Cloudmark Authority
New Solution Combines Advanced Message Fingerprinting with Connection Management; Delivers Multi-Layered Protection against Messaging Abuse for Mid-Sized Service Providers

2007-04-02T13:32:00.000-07:00

Network World: Tarpits deter impatient spammers
"The theory is the spammers are impatient, so if you slow them down a bit, they'll go away," said Ken Simpson, CEO of MailChannels. "Most spammers will give up within 10 seconds of establishing a connection."

2007-04-02T06:10:00.000-07:00

The Register: Spam: it sucks like a tarpit
Spam sucks. That is the conclusion reached by a roomful of scientists at MIT on Friday after hearing a bunch of new research papers pitched at dealing with the problem. Before adjourning to the pub, the group voted on the best paper. The award went to Ken Simpson, founder and CEO of Vancouver-based MailChannels.

2007-03-09T13:35:00.000-08:00

Cornell University Reports on Traffic Control Install
Cornell University reports, in its Chronicle publication, on the successful deployment of Traffic Control to reduce load across its campus email system.

2007-03-06T08:00:00.000-08:00

New MailChannels Survey Reveals Widespread Dissatisfaction With E mail Security Solutions
25,000 companies replaced email gateway solutions during 3-month period

2007-02-16T13:44:00.000-08:00

How to Beat Next Generation Spammers
Join MailChannels director David Greer for a special presentation in Cupertino, February 27 @ 11am

2007-02-16T11:21:00.000-08:00

IT World Canada: Multi-layer system eases load on government mail server
Significantly reducing the quantity of unwanted e-mail and increasing the speed of message delivery were just some benefits the City of Richmond in British Columbia, experienced after implementing a combined messaging and security system.

2007-02-05T06:00:00.000-08:00

MailChannels and Cloudmark Help City of Richmond Control Spam, Phishing and Viruses
MailChannels and Cloudmark help the City of Richmond control its spam problem with traffic shaping and collaborative filtering.

2007-01-15T05:04:00.000-08:00

O'Reilly Radar: Spamonomics 101
Security Editor Allison Randal discusses the economics of spamming.

2007-01-05T10:51:00.000-08:00

SysAdmin: Fingerprinting the World's Mail Servers
Interesting statistics on the global market share of email security software.

2006-10-12T16:18:00.000-07:00

Network World: Pinging to get some really useful data
Analyst Michael Osterman summarizes MailChannels research into the market share of email security software.

2006-10-12T10:31:00.000-07:00

ONLamp: Developing High Performance Asynchronous IO Applications
MailChannels Director of Research Stas Bekman describes how Traffic Control achieves its amazing scalability.

2006-05-30T06:00:00.000-07:00

MailChannels & Cloudmark Join Forces to Protect Email Infrastructure
"The joint solution provides corporate CIOs, security and network managers with the robust edge-network detection technology used by 50 of the world's largest wireless, wireline and cable service providers..."