DNS - Red Condor Releases Version 7.1 of its Anti-Spam Software

Red Condor, a provider of fully managed e-mail security solutions, has announced the release of version 7.1 of its anti-spam software. The new updates are capable of powering Red Condor's e-mail security appliances and hosted spam filtering service further.

The new version includes a new scam filter that can target phishing attacks and unique scams like Nigerian 419 campaigns. A new image filtering technique is also included which has content filtering enhancements, a new grey listing feature, auditing controls, and enhanced customization options. The new version will be automatically deployed to all customers using Red Condor's hosted service and appliances, said company sources.

Dr. Thomas Steding, president and CEO of Red Condor said, "Email scams have been the bane of network administrators for years, are rapidly increasing in volume, and are getting more sophisticated and devious in intent. As an email security provider, we have to be equally sophisticated and innovative in our approach to stopping them."

"Today's threats are shorter, more frequent and more targeted, integrating multiple components that have proven capable of bypassing traditional security solutions, partly due to their utilization of trust metrics, such as white and black lists. Red Condor does not use trust metrics because they are built on unsecure, untrustworthy systems. The new layers of defense included in Release 7.1 strengthen our ability to prevent scams from reaching our customers' in-boxes, eliminating the potential of a user actually falling for one and any of the intended catastrophic results," Dr. Steding added.

The new enhanced features of version 7.1 include a new scam and phishing filter. The algorithm is capable of detecting wrongdoings by criminals who exploit the resources of others through the use of insecure Web forms and compromised e-mail accounts. Real-time linguistic analysis methods in the algorithms help identify Webmail spear phishing, loan and lottery scams, mystery shopper scams, and targeted scams such as the "stranded friend", lawyer scams and dating scams among others.

Also included is a new image spam defense layer which can create rules that match structural details of an image campaign making them less likely to match images attached to legitimate messages.

The proactive technology incorporated in version 7.1 enhances the speed of execution and depth of defenses for providing fast response and accuracy. Other features include auditing facilities which help system administrators to track changes made on the system by administrators as well as end users via a new auditing report.

Content filtering enhancements in the new version will enable data security and compliance with privacy laws besides providing outbound filtering using Regular Expressions in a Word list. A pre-packaged definition for credit card and Social Security numbers is provided which can be deployed when required.