Tag: Security
Worth your time #1: Tools, Tips, Tricks and Facts
Explanation of how tiny errors and assumptions in the past can cause major repercussions in the future, a great little support tool for identifying browser config, a nifty tool for creating virtual desktops in Windows and a site to help you search for hoaxes. (Apr 21, 2011)
Where do you hide your porn?
Yet again, a Hollywood star's Gmail account has been hacked, exposing Vanessa Hudgens' private pictures on the Net. This follows similar public airings of Ali Larter, Busy Phillips, Scarlett Johansson, Miley Cyrus, Emma Caulfield, Addison Timlin, Renee Olstead and ...you? (Apr 02, 2011)
RSA, SecurID, Comodo: What Can We Trust Now?
Internet security was critically compromised last week in separate incidents. First, RSA was apparently compromised and data was stolen from its critical servers. There is speculation that the SecurID source code or even the seeds may have been copied. (Apr 01, 2011)
Word of the Week: Clickjacking
Clickjacking scams are making the rounds of Facebook users again, and while the current wave is supposedly under control (according to the FB people) new versions keep popping up all the time. (Mar 07, 2011)
Top 5 Reasons Why Data Security Matters
Data is at the heart of every business, but is your company’s data secure? The implications of data loss can be significant: from lost business to damage to your reputation. (Feb 21, 2011)
Four free Microsoft administration tools and much more
MS admin tools, security tools, how hackers hack your website, tools your users will ask you to install on their systems, how to create hard to break passwords, ... (Jan 26, 2011)
How Windows Search in Windows 7 flattened my email life
From XP to Windows 7 now, search has been getting progressively better on the Microsoft desktop. It is now getting really effective, quick and accurate to do searches for emails with Windows Desktop Search. (Jan 25, 2011)
25 Most Common Mistakes in Email Security
The 25 most common mistakes in email security. (Jan 14, 2011)
#FAIL: Don’t let your anti-virus trap you!
Reported last week in PC Pro1, leading security firms AVG and Symantec have been accused of ripping off their customers by cutting short their AV subscriptions once they had upgraded to different versions of the software. (Dec 13, 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)
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)
I’m getting flooded with spam - HELP!!
Here are the top 3 security gaffes and a bonus one! (Oct 13, 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)
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)
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)
Who is Responsible for Internet Security: A Response
Basically you have the Australian courts who want to place the onus on the shoulders of end-users. Others want to put the responsibility on Operating System or Application vendors due to their security holes. Finally, you have the Mail System operators or Network connectivity providers (ISPs) who don't take sufficient measures to combat open relays or botnets where infected machines act like SMTP proxies. (Jul 26, 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)
Who’s responsible for Internet Security?
A couple of stories in the news today caught my attention because they have very opposite perspectives on tackling cybercrime and Internet security. First, the Australian government is thinking of making home computer users responsible for security1. They’re contemplating legislation to force users to install anti-virus programs and firewalls on their home computers before being allowed to connect to the Internet. (Jun 23, 2010)
Why Your Business Needs Policy Management
Instead of being reactive to scandals and managing them after the fact, organizations should take a proactive role and protect data leakage before it happens, to prevent the loss of secrets that are revenue generating. However, most companies are still under-protected and focus their security budgets on compliance and protection of custodial data (customer personal information) rather than internal information such as corporate/product strategy, or financial reports which directly affect the bottom line. (Jun 17, 2010)
Honest, I don’t want an email security appliance!
Vendors have their own very special reasons for pushing email security appliances, instead of virtual machines or straight software installations. You may find that their reasons do not always align with your own. (Jun 14, 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)
