Tag: Spam
Orange.fr doesn’t get it. Spam !
I just came back from a 2-week vacation in France. Prior to leaving, I looked at Orange.fr, a large service provider in France that offered, among other things, mobile phone plans. The idea was to get a prepaid SIM card for my mobile phone, so that I could have a local (French) number to use in case of emergency. Adding an item to my shopping cart on Orange.fr resulted in getting spammed by them every single day for 15 days! (Sep 06, 2011)
On-demand webcast: directQuarantine for Outlook
On-demand webcast: directQuarantine for Outlook. Join Margot MacNutt as she presents our new quarantine management add-on for Outlook designed to give end-users total visibility and control over their quarantined messages within Outlook. (Apr 12, 2011)
What to do about Spam: Best Practices
You can't really prevent spam from reaching you altogether; however, there are some things that you can do to minimize how much you receive. (Mar 30, 2011)
How to Analyze Spam Email Headers
Spam characteristics appear in two parts of an email: the message header and the message content. Headers are important to examine because they show the history of the message delivery path as well as some common characteristics of spam. When a message is initially generated, it should include standard header fields such as From, To, Subject, Date, and Message-ID. Other standard headers include Received, Cc, Bcc, etc. (Mar 22, 2011)
Keep Control of your Mailboxes in Microsoft Exchange
It’s always a good idea to keep control of how many mailboxes you have in Microsoft Exchange. Why? There are several types of objects in Exchange that have mailbox-like behaviors, so they can receive mail from the outside world. (Mar 16, 2011)
Ego Stroking Spear Phishing
Senior managers and executives get spam that is a little different than most users. Spammers like to stroke their egos to get through the door. (Mar 03, 2011)
Three ways configure a spam filter with Exchange Server
Here are three ways that you can configure a spam filter with Microsoft Exchange Server. (Feb 07, 2011)
Dictionary Spam Trends
Spammers often like to use a dictionary type of attack to reach users’ Inboxes. You have probably noticed that most spam now appears to come from your own email address. A dictionary attack is where spammers create or work off a list of addresses starting with the letter A, and move down the alphabet. (Jan 28, 2011)
Word of the Week: Pagejacking
Pagejacking is defined in Vircom’s Glossary of Spam Terms as “A form of spamming a search engine’s index (spamdexing) whereby spammers make a copy of a website and use it to redirect surfers to malicious websites.” This means that a website page (preferably one with a high page ranking) is copied (sometimes with meta-tags) and the traffic is filtered off to another site. (Jan 13, 2011)
Email Overload: Clear your inbox in a few easy steps
A few steps to help you use your inbox properly and quickly clear it. Based on methods proposed by Mark Hurst in his excellent book, Bit Literacy. (Jan 10, 2011)
2010 Spam Subject Highlights
As the year draws to an end, we thought it high time to do another of our Top 10 favorite spam subject lines. The choice (unfortunately) is always aplenty but we think you’ll enjoy these – unless you can do better of course! (Dec 31, 2010)
The Spam Before Christmas
The Spam Before Christmas [Video]. ‘Twas the fortnight before Christmas, and all through my email / No good messages were stirring, just illicit retail; / There were Viagra and Cialis, and their load of bunk, / And watches galore – really, who buys this junk? (Dec 08, 2010)
How To Deploy a Spam Filter with Exchange
Spam, any unwanted email, has been an increasing problem for business. Not only is it a nuisance, it can often be downright dangerous for your business, carrying viruses and other malware. Various spam filters exist; however, choosing the best option for your company can get complicated. Do you use a separate server to act as a mail relay, a third party program, or integrate the filter into your firewall or your mail server? (Dec 07, 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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
