Tag: Email Security
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search results, browse through the first 50 and find most of them are either generally unrelated, unfocused or simply out of date or inactive.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)
How to troubleshoot “Insufficient system resources” errors on Exchange
Your email gateway server is unable to deliver messages to your backend Exchange mail server because of an “Insufficient system resources” error. Here's some troubleshooting help: (Oct 28, 2010)
WHOIS Woes
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been working on a project where I needed to determine the creation dates of various domains. Little did I know about the complexities involved in achieving such an apparently simple task. After all, ICANN has a WHOIS Data Reminder Policy (WDRP), thus all domains must have this information readily available via a simple WHOIS query. (Oct 25, 2010)
Java exploits increase as AV performance decreases
These 2 pieces of bad news could make a bad combination. The first piece of bad news is the recent upswing in attacks on Oracle’s Java software. According to a Computerworld1 article published today, the past 9 months has seen a whopping increase in attacks, from “less than half a million in the first quarter of 2010 to more than 6 million in the third quarter.” Much of the focus of these attacks has been on 3 vulnerabilities that were supposedly patched months, even years ago. (Oct 20, 2010)
Quick and dirty database replication with MS-SQL
Microsoft SQL and SQL Express both provide a T-SQL (Transact SQL) command-line interpreter that you can use to automate backup and restore processes. It enables you to utilize publisher/publishee configurations for real-time or near real-time replication. Sometimes, though, all you may want to do is run a daily backup of the database on one SQL Server and restore it to a second SQL Server to keep a "warm standby" available. This can be done easily with a pair of simple batch files. Here’s how you do it: (Oct 18, 2010)
I’m getting flooded with spam - HELP!!
Here are the top 3 security gaffes and a bonus one! (Oct 13, 2010)
Email Security Matters: A Look Back at the Year
Email Security Matters just turned one and we thought this would be the perfect opportunity to highlight some of the top posts of the year. (Oct 01, 2010)
Word of the Week: Email Bomb
An email bomb is the act of sending copious amounts of e-mail in an attempt to overflow a mailbox or crash the mail server. (Sep 29, 2010)
You might be an IT Nazi if…
When it comes to email content and filter settings, let’s suppose you have to keep a tight lid over what users can and cannot access. Or maybe you’re just too keenly aware of how people can get themselves into trouble and all the man-hours required to clean up the resulting mess. You might be an IT Nazi if... (Sep 22, 2010)
Summer Email Security News: It was the ‘Summer of Spam’!
Lots of activity in our industry this summer, following the major trends we outlined previously: huge spam volumes, consolidation, virtualization and more. (Sep 15, 2010)
Cool Tool: IMAPCOPY
Have you ever had to migrate mailboxes from server X to server Y? Unfortunately, each type of MTA natively stores mailboxes and folders differently from other MTAs (Sep 08, 2010)
What does Email Security mean to you?
When it comes to securing your organization’s email, you want to protect all aspects of email flow: inbound, local-to-local, and outbound. (Sep 01, 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)
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)
“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)
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)
Spear Phishing: Is Your Boss a Whale?
Spear and whale phishing 1have been around for a while now, but recent social engineering efforts are focusing more on company executives. An example is this type of email: it certainly looks legit at first glance; even the phone number and address – right down to the floor number – are correct. But take a closer look at the URL used in the links: the real site has no relation to puzzlejs-mailing.com. (Jul 29, 2010)
My spam is different from your spam!
The type of spam you receive depends on many things, including your behavior on the net, how you use your email address, your position in a company and much more. As a software company executive I receive a very particular stream, one that is probably very different than what most people receive. Well, at least that's what our Security Operations team tells me. (Jul 22, 2010)
More Recent News
Recent Spam Survey Winners
We are extremely pleased with the tremendous response that we have received to this point from our Fight Email Spam survey. As promised we have randomly selected winners of our gift card prizes. (Jan 23, 2012)
New Year's Resolution
We spend 8 to 10 (or more) hours a day at work - more time than we spend anywhere else - and our desks/workspaces are becoming our kitchen tables. But, do you realize that our desks are covered in more bacteria... (Jan 20, 2012)
Email Usage Survey
We are currently conducting a market research on email usage at work. Thank you for filling our this very short survey. (Jan 12, 2012)
