One in every two spam messages sent from Asia, Sophos reveals

IT security and data protection firm Sophos has published the latest ‘Dirty Dozen’ of spam-relaying countries, covering the second quarter of 2012. While North America continued to reduce the proportion of spam it relayed by email, Asia increased its output and is now responsible for relaying 49.7% of all spam captured in SophosLabs’s global network […]

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Facebook Partners With Sophos To Identify Potentially Malicious Posts

IT security and data protection company Sophos today announced a partnership with Facebook to help protect users from links that lead to malware or malicious sites. Facebook will use the website reputation service provided by SophosLabs, Sophos’s global network of research centers, along with their own security measures,  to help assess whether a largely distributed link […]

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