Archives: August, 2010

6 Ways to Reduce Your Costs with a Virtual Machine Solution

In his post, Six major trends for Email Security Companies, Mike discusses the trend of virtualization and the cloud. In case you still need convincing, here are 6 ways to reduce your IT costs through optimization of resource utilization: (Aug 31, 2010)

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Word of the Week: Phishing

This week's Word of the Week is Phishing. What exactly does it involve and how can you prevent unsuspecting people from becoming victims of it? According to Wikipedia, phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames,passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. Communications purporting to be from popular social web sites, auction sites, online payment processors or IT administrators are commonly used to lure the unsuspecting public. (Aug 26, 2010)

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“You can’t fix stupid”

HostExploit people named Demand Media the worst ISP in the world because of the number of botnet control centers they host and the sheer volume of junk that spews from its network. They reportedly host an estimated 7,400 infected websites. (Aug 19, 2010)

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The 6 major trends for Email Security companies: ignore these at your risk!

There are currently very large forces at play in our industry. The issues, technology, competition, infrastructure, deployment and market are changing at such a rate that will leave many companies behind, while creating enormous opportunities for others. (Aug 13, 2010)

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From Wave to Ripple to Flat line: Google Pulls the Plug on Wave

It came. It went. The end of email was predicted and in the end it’s Google Wave that bowed out. Looks like we didn’t have to wait long to see what the future would have in hold for Google Wave: on August 4th, Google announced that they were pulling the plug on Wave due to lack of user adoption, and discontinuing its development as a standalone product. (Aug 06, 2010)

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Stop Social Spam on Twitter

My last article was on stopping and getting rid of Comment and Registration spam on WordPress. Today, I’d like to cover another Social Spam topic: Twitter. You can bet all social networks are a target, and Twitter is no different. Here are a couple tips to minimize and get rid of the Twitter spam such as Direct Message (DM) spam. (Aug 03, 2010)

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