Psst…hey, buddy. Over here. Yeah, that’s it. Step into the shadows. Wanna buy a Rolex? Real cheap. No? Well how about the contact information for top executives? I’ve got them all. You want the chairman of Coca-Cola? Got it. Audi, …

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Are You Fighting Spam Aggressively or Intelligently

For quite some time, spam was dismissed as merely an annoyance. It was viewed as noise that distracted people from doing their work because their time was spent identifying and deleting these junk messages instead of working on more productive …

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How to Keep Your Email Campaign From Looking Spammy

  Email marketing is still a valuable tool for businesses, but it must be done with care or at best, your carefully crafted messages could end up going straight to a spam or junk folder, and at worst, run you afoul …

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Self-service or HelpDesk – How Should You Clean Out the Spam Trap?

One of the decisions I see my customers consider time and again is how to handle quarantined mail. They deploy a spam filtering solution of some type, and it does an effective job of blocking junk from getting to users’ …

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Ransomware Lurking In New Boston Marathon Themed Spam Campaign

A huge new spam campaign is pounding the net with ransomware laden messages. The messages claim to offer breaking news and exclusive videos about the Boston Marathon bombings and subsequent manhunt that gripped the city with fear. Instead the links lead the user …

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It’s no secret that as quickly as we make ways to stop the madness, the spammers are finding ways to pump up the volume. The spam landscape is becoming more dangerous than ever, if that’s even possible, and it seems …

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Boston Marathon Spam Strikes Australia

  Security experts are warning Australians to beware of a new spam campaign exploiting the Boston Marathon bombings. The campaign, which is sending out messages made to look like news stories about the attacks, delivers a malicious payload. Subject lines such …

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Malicious Spam Masquerades As HP Printer Notifications

    Hewlett-Packard is the latest big corporation to be brandjacked. A new spam campaign is taking advantage of a feature found in HP printers. The feature lets users scan a document and email it right from the printer. The …

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You know, we’ve heard so much over the past two years about the dangerous new onslaught of malware-ridden spam that was just around the corner, we failed to actually notice that we’ve taken the corner and been driving for awhile …

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New Spam Campaign Warns of War With North Korea

  A new spam campaign is using an old technique – fake news stories. This time they are taking advantage of the rising tensions between North Korea and the rest of the world, specifically the United States. The subject line …

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