Archives: September, 2009
What Email Security Shouldn’t Cost you
Customized professional services contract should not cost your organization an arm and leg. (Sep 30, 2009)
Spam Trends - September 2009
While examining our spam traffic over the last 4 weeks, I extracted the "new” content data. We received the usual spam every week, but occasionally had noticeable outbreaks. (Sep 28, 2009)
Top 5 Things to Distrust About Email
These are all very basic rules that a savvy person already knows. But if everyone already knows them, why are there so many scammers out there and how are they able to make so much money? (Sep 23, 2009)
Here’s a Quick Way to Stop Chain Letters
You’ve never heard of "white spam"? Of course not, I just made it up. Also called "friend spam," white spam is legitimate email that comes from annoying sources: a friend or relative (or both) who sends his daily home-made blog, details of adventures with his dog or multiple weekly chain letters. (Sep 21, 2009)
First Michael, now Patrick. Celebrity deaths yield new spam campaigns
So how does a celebrity's death result in more spam? Spammers take advantage of our thirst for information and know that we will be Googling for the latest news and gossip. (Sep 16, 2009)
Free HotSpots! Do banking while we look!
You are downtown and don’t have an EVDO/3G connection. After scanning the area, you find an SSID called “Free Internet 4 You.” Cool! You connect to the network, start checking your emails and maybe do some financial transactions, and… you’ve probably fallen into a trap. (Sep 14, 2009)
Spam’s future from the New School of Information Security
Will Spam ever stop? Some thoughts on spam economics from the New School of Information Security.
Adam Shostack (currently at Microsoft in the role of security program manager and with whom I worked on a security audit of the service delivery platform at Radialpoint) and Andrew Stewart recently published The New School of Information Security. (Sep 11, 2009)
Where does your data go when you’re not looking?
So it’s time to review and update your network security and you're preparing the budget. You’ve included the costs for hardware peripheral devices, anti-malware solutions, maybe encryption, etc. But what about a lawsuit - did you factor that into the bottom line? (Sep 09, 2009)
Top 5 reasons why your email was caught as spam: true stories
5 Reasons why your email might have been caught as spam (Sep 07, 2009)
SPF woes with third party services … a workaround.
Many people use SPF (Sender Policy Framework) as an anti-spoofing measure. They create an SPF record in their DNS zone for their domain. From time to time though, some customers will do business or use third party services that will send out Email on their domain's behalf and unfortunately, this will cause recipient MTAs to hard-fail or soft-fail these messages. (Sep 04, 2009)
Critics Smell Spam in White House Healthcare Email Effort
The White House has emailed thousands of messages to Americans detailing its stance on the contentious issue of healthcare reform, but some recipients say the messages were unsolicited. Critics are questioning whether the White House used address-gathering tactics similar to those employed by spammers. (Sep 02, 2009)
