One company is taking email security very seriously. Strong Webmail is offering ten thousand dollars to the first person to break into their CEO’s email. To make things easier, the CEO is giving away his username and password.

A U.S. federal grand jury has indicted the son of a Democratic state lawmaker for breaking into the e-mail account of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

Comcast.net and Comcast webmail accounts have been compromised after the site was hacked earlier this evening.

Existing Security Measures are Only Partially Effective. Webroot Projects 42,000 Spam Messages Will Hit Every Business Email Inbox in 2008.

Engate Technology Corporation, a leading anti-spam provider and pioneer of next generation network profiling email security solutions, today announced a strategic partnership with Trustifi, a leading Identity Solutions Provider (IdSP). Under the agreement, Trustifi will market and support Engate’s network profiling anti-spam products for enterprises and SMBs.

Users in the Northeast US have been reporting access to Hotmail services have been down for the past hour.

San Jose, CA — February 25, 2007 — Engate Technology, a leading anti-spam supplier and pioneer of next generation network profiling and connection management security solutions, today announced that it has been named a recipient of the 2008 Hot Companies award by Silicon Valley Communications. Selected from an industry analysis of more than 500 prominent info security vendors around the world.

San Jose, CA – February 19, 2008 — Engate Technology Corporation, a leading anti-spam supplier and pioneer of next generation network profiling and connection management security solutions, today announced a strategic channel partnership with vista computing, a leading technology consulting firm. Under the agreement, vista computing will market and support Engate’s network profiling anti-spam products for service providers, enterprises and businesses.

Channel partners now have access to Webroot Email Security SaaS solutions to deliver multi-layered security approach

With the Valentine's Day holiday approaching, be on the lookout for spam e-mails spreading the Storm Worm malicious software (malware).

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced a series of security products Powered by Postini™ that deliver message filtering, encryption and archiving for any business environment.

Carnegie Mellon University computer scientists have developed an interactive, online game featuring a little fish named Phil that can teach people how to better recognize and avoid email "phishing" and other Internet scams.