Phishing: Each month Skeptic™ analyzes billions of messages sent to our clients from sources around the world. First emerging in the mid-1990s, the term ‘phishing’ describes a range of criminal activities designed to steal confidential data via computer systems and then use this data or sell it for a profit. Whether the stolen information consists of valuable intellectual property, customer data, bank account or credit card details, usernames or passwords, the bottom-line damage suffered by businesses falling victim to phishing attacks can be enormous.

Recent Analysis: From the MessageLabs Intelligence Report for May 2011, phishing activity decreased by 0.06 percentage points since April 2011; one in 286.7 emails (0.349%) comprised some form of phishing attack.

Symantec MessageLabs Web Security.cloud: A core part of our Web Security Services is Web Filtering, which assists you to enforce acceptable usage policies. Symantec.cloud - Web URL Filtering Service gives you control over how your staff utilizes the internet, helping to protect your business from the legal implications that can arise from inappropriate use, while enabling you to block access to websites by URL, time of day, or file type.

Recent Analysis: From the MessageLabs Intelligence Report for May 2011, he most common trigger for policy-based filtering applied by Symantec MessageLabs Web Security.cloud for its business clients was for the “Advertisements & Popups” category, which accounted for 45.9% of blocked Web activity in May. The second most frequently blocked traffic was categorized as Social Networking, and accounted for 16.2% of URL-based filtering activity blocked, equivalent to one in every 6.2 Web sites blocked.

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