Tag: Email
Email Security Gateway Deployment: Avoid These Common Mistakes
Don't declare your primary mail server (MTA) as a secondary MX. (Oct 02, 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)
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)
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)
Image Spam is Back! Really?!
You got 2 spam messages during the week-end. Oh my God, file a complaint! But take a look at your older quarantine or spam report contents: you’ll see that hundreds, if not thousands, of spam were caught during that period. So, is seeing only 2 spam really a big deal? (Aug 31, 2009)
Security Software Revenue Up 18.6%
Worldwide, the key drivers for fueling the growth of IT security spending are data security and privacy and the need to protect IT infrastructure from the ever-increasing sophisticated and targeted attacks. For North American and Western European Organizations, compliance was one of the major drivers. (Aug 28, 2009)
“ElephantGate” and other stories
Ah the “Dog Days” of August! Give me a hot, sunny day, a comfortable lawn chair and a really good spy novel, and I’ll get lost for hours. But who needs books these days? A recent article about corporate espionage reveals a wealth of true-life - and often truly bizarre – tales. Move over James Bond, the company janitor has cool gadgets too! (Aug 26, 2009)
Phishing threats: only by email?
You’ve all heard of the typical phishing emails that target Uncle Joe and Aunt Patty, urging them to send their personal information over the Internet because they “won the lottery.” Yes, they are the biggest fish out there, making phishing activities very attractive for scammers. But another threat is lurking quietly behind your computer: your kids. Attracted by emulators, free games and P2P, etc., this is where the dangers begin. (Aug 24, 2009)
