Tag: Spam Filter
Here come the spam police
The German courts may have just opened the floodgates. Their top criminal court ruled this week that home wireless users can be held responsible for not password-protecting their wireless connections. If the unprotected connection is used for illegal file downloads, the owner can be fined up to 100 Euros (currently $126). (May 17, 2010)
Most Common Support Issue: Whitelist = Spoofed Spam
No one likes to see spam in their Inbox, especially when it comes from themselves! Users often get confused and even worry that their identity has been stolen. The main cause for this is that they have whitelisted their own email address to bypass scanning for outbound traffic. Users do not realize (or understand) that spammers can spoof their email address and send spam that appears to be from themselves. (May 14, 2010)
Facebook or Faceblock? Facebook implementing their own ‘email security’?
Facebook is coming under scrutiny (again!), this time about their email scanning policies. Most of you are probably in the email security industry and are well aware that any email security solution will scan a message to divert or block spam, phishing, etc. (May 12, 2010)
Think you don’t spam? Think again!
Who has never sent email spam? Maybe you wanted to promote something, contact friends or relatives you never really emailed before (at least with a normal email), send a chain letter that promised success and money or to promote a garage sale using your local hockey team email list? Maybe you sent a message for your business using a large contact list grabbed on a corporate email with a multitude of CC’d addresses? Or did you ‘borrow’ the customer list from work for your own use? (Oh, that’s bad!) (May 05, 2010)
Your mail server might not be the cause of delivery problems
Most support people have seen every mail server configuration possible, and others that would have been considered impossible. No matter whether the operating budget is very tight, mega-sized or somewhere in between, people often try to throw everything onto a single server, including the kitchen sink. Well, that kitchen sink is often the cause of email blockage, rather than the actual mail server program. Even a honking new machine with mega-sized specs can have performance problems if it becomes bloated with unnecessary and/or resource hogging apps. (May 03, 2010)
April Email Security News: McAfee update error impacts many systems
A summary of links to articles that I have found interesting in the last few weeks. Includes my own commentary. (Apr 30, 2010)
Six items often overlooked when purchasing an email security solution
As discussed in an earlier post , the battle against spam is an ongoing one and requires you to do your due diligence when selecting an email security solution to protect one of your business’ most important assets: email. (Apr 26, 2010)
Deep header inspection: use with caution
Some anti-spam tools will actually look at the reputation of IP addresses in each of the received headers of an email. Reputation mechanisms usually involve multiple sources, e.g., DNSBLs and Honeypot-driven reputation services. (Apr 19, 2010)
Why can’t you stop this spam?
Maybe you’ve seen more spam hitting your Inbox over the past couple of months and wondering, “Why am I paying for filtering? This stuff is obviously spam – why can’t you guys stop it?” The main challenges of being in the spam filtering business are dealing with clients’ expectations on the one hand, and the sheer size of the spam/malware machine on the other. (Apr 16, 2010)
The Future Of Email Security: Where Do We Go From Here?
There’s no denying that anti-spam filters are imperative in the fight against junk mail and malware, but no single solution is fool-proof. Employing anti-spam and virus filters, stronger passwords, encryption, and so on, are not enough to win the battle against the ever-increasingly sophisticated attackers. (Nov 04, 2009)
10 Best Spam Subject Lines
Spam definitely comes in all shapes and sizes. We asked you to submit your best subject lines and after much deliberation we came up with the top ten list (and it was no easy feat!)
10 "a stone for making tortillas, a mortar for grinding red pepper."
9 "A cell phone glitch accidentally making millionaires" (Oct 09, 2009)
