In the Name of Her Majesty: British Phishing Emails Promise Tax Refunds

In recent days, many inboxes have been receiving emails that at first sight appear to carry joyous news. In the subject line they announce a tax refund, and the sender seems to be “Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs” (HMRC) – the British tax authority. So every recipient with business ties to the United Kingdom is likely to take a closer look.

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How to protect yourself from blackmail trojan Locky

Since last week the aggressive blackmail Trojan Locky has been causing mischief on computers around the globe. Retarus expands existing spam and virus protection functions and switch all customers over to fourfold virus scanning for the duration of the current, acute threat. To protect yourself as well as possible from attacks by Locky and similar ransomware, users should additionally be vigilant when running macros.

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Make space in your email inbox: Send large files with Retarus LFiX

It’s a dilemma: A large file should be sent to a colleague or business partner in the most direct way possible. At the same time you don’t want to bother the recipient with an attachment comprising several megabytes. Normal email transmission is therefore not an option. With Large File Exchange (LFiX), Retarus offers an easy-to-use, yet highly secure solution.

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Experton Security Vendor Benchmark 2016: Experton Group evaluates IT security market

Be it due to increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks, high cost pressure or strict legal guidelines such as the EU Data Protection Regulation or the new German IT Security Act – IT security stands alongside cloud computing, big data, social business and mobile enterprise as one of the topics to which the ITC is currently paying most attention. In its annual survey the Experton Group examined the offerings of 138 service providers who currently play an important role on the security market. Retarus has immediately achieved inclusion in the quadrant “Product Challenger” being positioned as one of the strongest cloud service providers in the category “E-Mail / Web / Collaboration Security”.

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