Archives: November, 2010
How to keep your company’s name off Wikileaks
The Wikileaks document dump has been all over the news this past week. How was this enormous security breach possible? Because so many people had access to a huge network that was not well secured. Have you looked at your own security procedures recently? (Nov 30, 2010)
Smishing and Vishing: Scammers are targeting your cell phone
Are you familiar with the terms smishing and vishing? They’ve been around for a few years now, but they’re not as common as email phishing and haven’t been given as much attention. (Nov 29, 2010)
Reasons to be thankful at Email Security Matters
Lots to be thankful for on this day, and it starts with our customers, our readers, and our blog contributors. (Nov 25, 2010)
Mark Zuckerberg commented on your photo
This is a new spam that has just started showing up in my inbox. A few others seem to have received it. It seems like a non-threatening phishing attempt redirecting clickers to mysearchmusic.com. The destination site seems unharmful at first glance, and acts as a MP3 Search Engine, with Google AdSense. (Nov 24, 2010)
Word of the Week: Bacn
What? Wait a second…we’ve heard of spam (and dread it) but what is this bacn you speak of? Mmm bacon (a la Homer Simpson). Nope, not that kind! Bacn, as described by Wikipedia, is all that email that you have signed up for (think: countless newsletters that seemed necessary at the time) but are often not read by you for a long period of time. (Nov 23, 2010)
Is my hard drive healthy?
The hard drive is rarely considered the primary cause in bottleneck cases; we usually tend to suspect the applications installed on the server. People often think the source of system performance issues is either disk corruption or insufficient disk space, but Physical Disk: %disk time and Physical Disk: Current Disk Queue Length are equally important metrics that work in parallel. There are few other ways to detect hard drive problems using other metrics, but for now I will only focus on these two performance counters. (Nov 17, 2010)
Facebook Mail Rumor: Friend or Foe? Gmail killer?
The feature hasn’t even been officially announced yet and already the “Will Facebook kill Gmail, Hotmail, etc.” speculations are popping up all over the Net. I don’t know about ‘kill’ per se, but Facebook will definitely give the big guns a run for their money. (Nov 12, 2010)
Latest spear phishing wave targets companies
Let’s say your name is Jim and you get this email. It looks like this Michelle knows you but you can’t really remember who she is. Since you have 8,641,037 friends on Facebook, you decide to trust the email (it’s not perfect, but it’s not as full of typos as typical spam, so that’s a start!). (Nov 12, 2010)
Top 10 Email Security Blogs
I know you're busy. You don't have time to look for pertinent blogs all over the Net: go to Google, find a million search results, browse through the first 50 and find most of them are either generally unrelated, unfocused or simply out of date or inactive. So, to save you time and effort, we here at Email Security Matters have compiled our own Top 10 Email Security Blogs! (Nov 10, 2010)
Email Security Grader: More security through education and community
The security battle today has two main fronts: systems and education of users. Email Security Grader hopes to promote the education of network admins on email security. (Nov 03, 2010)
Test your mail server security infrastructure with Email Security Grader
Email Security Grader is a free online tool which helps IT and mail administrators evaluate the security of their mail infrastructure. The web site regroups several important tests (spam blacklist, open relay, mx records, smtp/pop3/imap authentication), educates users and makes recommendations for each aspect of email security. (Nov 01, 2010)
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