Recent News / Press Releases

March 4th, 2011

Roaring Penguin Software releases Advantage Interactive Case Study

UK based Web Host relies on CanIt-Domain-PRO to keep its clients free from spam.

Roaring Penguin Software Inc. announces the release of the Advantage Interactive Case Study.

February 14th, 2011

Belnet selects Roaring Penguin's CanIt‑Domain‑PRO to combat spam

The Belgian national non-commercial internet service provider for Research & Education selects Roaring Penguin Software to protect their Universities from Spam.

Outbound Rate Limiting improved in CanIt 8.0.2

Roaring Penguin Software stops spam in outgoing e-mail with its improved outbound rate limiting feature for Universities, Web Hosts, ISPs and MSPs

February 4th, 2011

Roaring Penguin adds new real-time list

Roaring Penguin Software's CanIt Reputation List collects IP reputation data on e-mail servers from a worldwide network of sensors. Roaring Penguin has added a new list to its suite of reputation lists.

January 24th, 2011

CanIt 8.0 Anti spam software released

The 8.0.0 release adds two major new features:

• Full-text indexing and searching of mail logs.
• Complete auditing of rules and settings.

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November 11th, 2010

Roaring Penguin Software Announces Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Red Hat, Inc. has announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL 6).

Roaring Penguin announced today that CanIt-PRO and CanIt-Domain-PRO packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 on Intel i386 and x86_64 are available for download.

RHEL 6 features a completely updated core and a newer Kernel. Also included are support for virtualization and next generation networking (including comprehensive IPv6 support ). Virtualization and IPv6 support are features that Roaring Penguin's core customer set are expected to take advantage of.

November 9th, 2010

CanIt 7.0.8 Anti-Spam Software Released

Roaring Penguin Software upgrade includes support for Domain Key Identified Mail (DKIM) and Vouch By Reference (VBR)

1. CanIt now has built-in support for DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail). DKIM is a method for senders to securely indicate the domain which takes responsibility for an email message. DKIM can prevent attackers from forging the source domain of their messages. CanIt users who choose to use DKIM to validate the origin of a message can use information about the signer as an additional measure to limit spam, spoofing, phishing, or other undesirable behavior.

October 15th, 2010

SUNET selects Roaring Penguin Software's CanIt-Domain-PRO software to combat spam

The National Research Education Network (NREN) for the Swedish Universities selects Roaring Penguin Software

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada – Roaring Penguin Software Inc. the email filtering experts, announced that SUNET (the Swedish University Computer Network), has selected CanIt-Domain-PRO to combat spam on their networks. SUNET is a specialised Internet service provider dedicated to supporting the needs of the research and education communities within Sweden.

September 30th, 2010

Roaring Penguin Software Supports Obama's IPv6 Plans

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada – Roaring Penguin Software Inc., the email filtering experts, makers of the acclaimed CanIt-PRO, CanIt-Domain-PRO and Hosted CanIt anti-spam solutions, announced their approval of the Obama Administrations plans to transition to IPv6. Said David Skoll, President of Roaring Penguin Software '" The White House plan has a clear schedule for government departments and agencies to migrate to IPv6. All government servers that face the public must using native IPv6 by Sept 30 2012. This covers all government web,email,DNS, ISP services etc.

September 24th, 2010

Roaring Penguin Software submits Internet-Draft for IP Reputation structure to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada – Roaring Penguin Software Inc., the email filtering experts, makers of the acclaimed CanIt line of anti-spam solutions, today announced that they have submitted an internet draft to the Internet Engineering Task Force. Several organizations (Project Honeypot, Spamhaus, RepuScore, etc.) maintain databases detailing the reputation of various IP addresses. These organizations use various ad hoc methods to collect the reputation data. There is no standard for reporting events to reputation-collectors; this makes it hard to instrument a large number of systems to be data gatherers in a standard way.