November 16th, 2010 → 3:45 am @ Paul Mah
New developments on the phishing front could dramatically increase the likelihood of even seasoned computer users falling for email scams. As reported on the well-respected Infosecurity Magazine, this latest evolution has to do with real-time phishing, which could well circumvent most two-factor authentication (2FA) implementations – seen in some circles as the gold standard against [...]
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November 9th, 2010 → 4:16 am @ Paul Mah
The recent case of a man who broke into the email account of 170 women and used explicit pictures that he found to embarrass and blackmail them best illustrates the new ways that hackers and scammers are using known and existing weaknesses in email systems to their advantage. Let’s take a closer look at what [...]
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October 13th, 2010 → 5:25 am @ Paul Mah
I make use of a pretty adequate spam filter, which is good enough that I rarely get spam in my mailbox. With between 20 spam messages on a weekend to more than 60 on a weekday ending up in the spam folder, it’s certainly a great relief not having to deal with such a large [...]
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September 30th, 2010 → 6:33 am @ Paul Mah
This week, I came across Terry Zink’s blog of how his Hotmail account was compromised to send spam. Now, the truth is that user accounts get broken into all the time, and having one’s email accessed illicitly is not such an uncommon occurrence that I would pay a lot of attention to on a usual [...]
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Protecting your Email Account from Hijack
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September 22nd, 2010 → 6:02 am @ Paul Mah
We try to cover all aspects of spam here such as new developments on the phishing and malware front, technical know-how, preventive measures, and maybe even a dash of humour too. Beyond the email spam that we are all-too-familiar with however, administrators and IT managers are often tasked to tackle other forms of digital trash as [...]
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6 Different Types of Spam and How to Avoid Them
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September 14th, 2010 → 7:25 am @ Paul Mah
Unavoidably, we will from time-to-time bump into someone who comes up with a “brilliant” proposal to save that extra penny by not investing in any spam protection. While we might be able to close an eye on their ignorance if they are simply fellow system administrators or IT managers from other organizations, the whole ballgame [...]
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Why You Should Invest in Spam Protection
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September 7th, 2010 → 7:53 am @ Paul Mah
For all the talk about the eradication of spam and ways to filter or mitigate the impact of this unrelenting e-mail malice, there is one important question that we rarely ask ourselves – Is your company an unwitting purveyor of spam? After all, the deluge of spam has to originate from somewhere, with a fair [...]
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How not to be an Unwitting Purveyor of Spam
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August 31st, 2010 → 7:44 am @ Paul Mah
You might have been considering implementing a hosted spam filtering solution such as GFI’s Max MailEdge service, but are unclear as to how it works, and what reprecussions it might have on your existing IT infrastructure.
Simply put, the majority of hosted or cloud-based spam filtering works by redirecting incoming e-mails directly to the appointed service [...]
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Some Reasons to Consider Hosted Spam Filtering
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August 26th, 2010 → 8:27 am @ Paul Mah
One aspect of spam has to do with trickery, where users are cajoled or tricked into performing an action, usually in the form of clicking on a specially prepared URL link. While the best way to stop the proliferation of spam would of course be the implementation of a good spam filter, the inevitable junk [...]
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Five Ways to Train Your Users to Identify Spam
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