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- How many spam do you get in a day?
- I ran a poll on "How many spam do you get in a day?" a couple of weeks back as part of a weekly roundup piece I posted over at TechRepublic's Security blog, and I thought I'll share the results over here. I...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- End users more vulnerable to spear phishing scams
- It may surprise you to find out how vulnerable end users are to phishing attacks. Now a new application may let you constructively realign end user behavior to protect your company's assets. by Toni Bowers
- Tags: Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Toni Bowers
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Fighting spam for thirty years
- One of the most common types of questions I get from my users concerns spam e-mail: how can you stop junk e-mail; how can you make sure legitimate e-mails don't mistakenly get trapped in various spam filters; how can one's own e-mail address be used to send that very person...
- Tags: Junk E-mail, Spam E-mail, Cyberthreats, Spam, E-mail, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications, Joe Rosberg
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Top IT news for April 30: Microsoft could go hostile with Yahoo, 3G iPhone rumored at $199, new tool lets police crack PCs
- Top five headlines Report: Microsoft leaning toward proxy fight Microhoo: Wall Street gets antsy Rumor: 3G iPhone to sell for US$199 Microsoft device helps police pluck evidence from cyberscene of crime Wi-Fi cafes: Easy to find, but free is fading away ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, PC, Information Technology, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Tool, 3G, Phishing, Microsoft Windows, Corporate Communications, Strategy, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Security, Spam And Phishing, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Management, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- How do I... Avoid e-mail spam using Outlook tools?
- Nobody knows for sure how spam got its name, but we can all agree that we hate it. As more and more spam finds your Inbox, it's harder to find legitimate mail. Regrettably, at least from the recipients' point of view, it looks like spam is here to stay, but...
- Tags: Message, Microsoft Outlook, E-mail Spam, Tool, E-mail Address, Option, Inbox, Cyberthreats, Spam, E-mail, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications, Susan Harkins
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- PayPal to get selective about browsers
- PayPal could resort to an outright ban of Web browsers that it considers to be old and vulnerable from using its services. Some of the key criteria appears to be the support of the relatively new EV SSL Extended Validation Secure Sockets Layer standard as well as some form of...
- Tags: Web Browser, PayPal, Web Browsers, Phishing, Internet, Security, Spam And Phishing, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
- New phishing scam targets high level executives
- A new phishing attack has been circulating lately, but instead of trying to dupe millions of computer users into giving up their financial information, this one is aimed at high level executives. The e-mail scam purports to notify the executive about court proceedings and tries to get them to...
- Tags: Financial, Hacker, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Security, Hacking, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Andy Moon
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- Security news roundup: Oracle announces bonanza of patches for 41 holes, older WordPress blog succumb en masse
- Here’s a collection of recent security vulnerabilities, alerts, and news, which covers the release of patches by Oracle for 41 security vulnerabilities, a new patched version of rsync, a warning that older insecure WordPress blogs are becoming a vector for the propagation of spam, and news that some spam filtering...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Version, Blog, Patch Management, Wordpress, Updates, Patches, Blogging, Security, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Enterprise Software, Databases, Internet, Spam And Phishing, Software, Data Management, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- Spammers must correct their wrongdoing
- From a BBC News article a few days ago (24 March 08) :"China is investigating a spam attack after almost half of China's mobile phone users received unwanted text messages from advertisers. Text messages were sent to more than 200 million mobile phone users through China Mobile and its smaller...
- Tags: China, Mobile, Spammer, Cell Phone, Attack, NDR, Spam, E-mail, Cyberthreats, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications, Tim Malone
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- The terrible curse of spam
- No, I’m not talking about the kind that comes in a can. Spam is the common name given to unwanted e-mails. If you use a computer then you know what I’m talking about. They are Stupid Pointless Annoying Messages. Some are insidious in the way that they appeal to the...
- Tags: Spammer, Computer, E-mail, Cyberthreats, Spam, Productivity, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, Tim Malone
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
- Barracuda Spam Firewall with Microsoft Exchange
- Last week I took a first look at the Barracuda Spam Firewall and went through the quick-start setup. Within an hour, I had the basic configuration covered and had tested it by temporarily rerouting some live traffic to the Barracuda box. It seemed to work well, but before...
- Tags: Firewall, Idea, Microsoft Exchange Server, Problem, Setup, Microsoft Corp., Single Sign-on, LDAP, Directory Services, E-mail, Authentication/Encryption, Ssl/Tls, Spam, Enterprise Software, Software, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, Justin Fielding
- Blog posts 2008-02-13
- PayPal to buy online fraud detection firm
- eBay-owned PayPal has announced the acquisition of privately-held online fraud detection firm Fraud Sciences. An excerpt from TechWorld: Fraud Sciences, a private company, has developed technology designed to differentiate between real and fraudulent transactions. That technology will be folded into PayPal's anti-fraud systems, which will...
- Tags: PayPal, Fraud Sciences, Mergers & Acquisitions, Phishing, Corporate Law, Security, Investment, Finance, Spam And Phishing, Business Operations, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2008-01-28
- Drive-by pharming simplifies identity theft
- The first real-world occurrence of drive-by pharming has finally been observed and substantiated. In reality it was only a matter of time as this type of attack was made public in 2006 as a white paper written by three security researchers associated with the Indiana University School of Informatics. The...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Pharming, DNS Server, Server, Web Site, Attack, Drive-by Pharming, Web Site Development, Identity Theft, Phishing, Internet, Security, Spam And Phishing, Michael Kassner
- Blog posts 2008-01-25
- How to avoid being a phishing Webserver admin
- In October I discussed the way people tend to misinterpret phishing botnet statistics. The key point was that people saw that many of the phishing Websites were on Linux servers, and somehow leaped to the conclusion this meant Linux desktops were parts of the botnets sending out phishing emails....
- Tags: Web Server, Administrator, Password, Truth, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Web Servers, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Internet, Chad Perrin
- Blog posts 2008-01-25
- Blocked spam hits a new record
- I work for a small to medium sized company. We have about 100 mailboxes, some of which have been around for more than ten years. As evidence that spam continues to get worse, I present the following chart from our Commtouch management console. It shows that 1.2 million pieces of spam were...
- Tags: Commtouch, Mailbox, Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Tim Malone
- Blog posts 2008-01-24
- Beware of vishing attacks via e-mail
- The Internet Crime Complaint Center has issued a warning on the rise of vishing attacks, which is like phishing in that the attacks are propagated through e-mail, but there's a difference. An excerpt from the IC3 site: Vishing operates like phishing by persuading consumers to divulge...
- Tags: Attack, Internet Crime Complaint Center, E-mail, Phishing, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2008-01-23
- Norton Internet Security 2008: The Right Tool for the Job?
- The Job Windows computers require protection from a wide variety of common viruses and spyware programs, not too mention unwanted intrusions. Novice users are particularly vulnerable to system infections and identity theft. A single software suite is required that can address all these issues. The Tool ...
- Tags: Job, Norton Co., Tool, Norton Internet Security, Anti-spyware, Norton Internet Security 2008, Software Suite, Tool Norton Internet Security 2008, Phishing, Identity Theft, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam, Rootkits, Firewalls, Spam And Phishing, Networking, Erik Eckel
- Blog posts 2008-01-22
- What can be done to combat overseas hackers?
- A high profile technology firm, Computer Associates CA, was hacked last week and, though the problem has been corrected, the hackers inserted code to redirect visitors to a Chinese Web site that was serving malicious code to the unsuspecting visitors. A similar attack was carried out on the Miami...
- Tags: China, Hacker, Hacking, Security, Phishing, Spam And Phishing, Andy Moon
- Blog posts 2008-01-07
- Does UC present new opportunities for spammers?
- As we head into a new year, 2008 promises to bring about revolutionary changes in the ways we use familiar communications tools. The premise of the coming integration of different forms of messaging -- e-mail, voice, IM -- into unified communications systems is exciting. UC makes it easy to get...
- Tags: Telemarketing, VoIP, Phone, Spammer, Voicemail, News, UC, Spam, Cyberthreats, Telecom & Utilities, E-mail, Telecommunications, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications, Deb Shinder
- Blog posts 2008-01-04
- Trojan attacks bank accounts, automates wire transfers
- Anti-virus vendor SecureWorks has raised an alert on a variant of the Prg Trojan that pilfers commercial bank accounts by initiating wire transfers. An excerpt from SC Magazine: The latest attack is being orchestrated by a German group working in conjunction with UpLevel, a Russian malware-developing...
- Tags: Bank, Awareness, Trojan Horse, Malware, Money, Attack, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Banking, Cyberthreats, Phishing, Security, Viruses And Worms, Financial Services, Spam And Phishing, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-12-18
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