He is known as the inventor of the first modern email: In 1971 US informatics expert Ray Tomlinson succeeded in sending a message between two computers for the first time. Email, as we now know it, was born. But something else has also survived the years – the @ sign.
Tags: Email // Email Security // Ray Tomlinson
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.
Tags: Email Security // HMRC // IT-Security // Phishing
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.
Tags: Email Security // Locky // Online Fraud // Ransomware // Trojan
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.
Tags: file transfer // filehosting // filetransfer // IT-Security // LFiX // Retarus Large File Exchange
An increasing number of companies are sending huge amounts of short messages with the aid of cloud services, reliably and quickly to mobile networks around the world. While many companies have thus far preferred to use SOAP interfaces, the trend in the Internet Economy has for some time now been clearly towards REST, short for Representational State Transfer. The advantage: Especially in the internet environment most of the infrastructure required for REST is already available.
Tags: Enterprise SMS // Internet Economy // REST // SOAP
Retarus has continued to build on a highly successful fiscal year (FY) 2015: Over the first half of the new business year the global turnover for the group rose to 24 million Euros. The US subsidiary alone improved its turnover by 23.5% through remarkably successful new customer business.
Tags: financial figures // growth // Retarus Group