Mohammad Reza Miri, a member of the telecommunications ministry in Iran, said a recent Gmail block was an "involuntary" consequence of trying to reinforce censorship of Google's YouTube video-sharing site.

Spear Phishing emails are particularly effective as criminals often use information from social networking sites to personalize emails and make them look mostly authentic.

Perimeter E-Security introduced a new offering designed to provide email users with easy access to their entire mailbox archive on virtually any device, from any location.

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), the largest independent regulator for all securities firms doing business in the United States, has issued an investor alert and a regulatory notice about an increase in financially motivated attacks, targeting the email accounts used by investors to initiate transactions.