Anti spam and general email security in a business environment

Will DMARC Have Much Impact on Spam?

Despite many reports and surveys that tout a major reduction in the amount of spam being delivered to inboxes, industry professionals know that the fight against spam cannot be won by resting on the laurels of past success. To show …

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Will DMARC Have Much Impact on Spam?

Spam Fighting Boot Camp Week 1: Know Your Enemy

All right, sweethearts, what are you waiting for? Breakfast in bed? Another glorious day in the Corps! A day in the Spam Corps is like a day on the farm. Every meal’s a banquet! Every paycheck a fortune! Every formation …

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Spam Fighting Boot Camp Week 1: Know Your Enemy

Banks and Top Websites Develop New Spam Fighting Techniques

In a new effort to fight spam, major financial firms such as Bank of America, FidelityInvestments, and Paypal are partnering with popular internet fixtures Facebook, Google, and Microsoft to create new industry standards designed to make it more difficult for …

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Banks and Top Websites Develop New Spam Fighting Techniques

5 Ways Your Users Can Help You Fight Spam

Just about every company is all too aware of the problems that spam can lead to. This has prompted a majority of IT departments to employ some sort of anti-spam, or spam filtering, solution to assist in keeping the inboxes …

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5 Ways Your Users Can Help You Fight Spam

5 Tips to Keep Your Emails Out Spam and Junk Folders

I do business with quite a few online retailers and services and most of them send me marketing emails and newsletters. Without fail, a few always wind up flagged as spam and redirected to my spam folder. I found out that …

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5 Tips to Keep Your Emails Out Spam and Junk Folders

FBI Declares ‘Gameover’, Link to ZeuS

Malware developers seem to appreciate a little humor when it comes to naming their schemes. One of the latest email scams to invade inboxes everywhere is no exception, it seems, and the FBI has been quick to let businesses know …

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FBI Declares ‘Gameover’, Link to ZeuS

January Spam Roundup

Along with a new year, January brought with it a new wave of spam campaigns, most ofthem malicious in nature. Here’s a look at some of the top headlines for the month: Nokia Fined For Spamming Their Customers: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012/01/nokia-fined-in-australia-for-spam-texting-its-own-customers.ars Top 9 Domains …

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January Spam Roundup

Spam Fighting Boot Camp: The Mission

Please read the following post with the voice of a drill sergeant in your mind. Imagine something between R. Lee Ermey and Samuel L. Jackson if you can, or maybe Stephen Lang. Alright people, listen up! Welcome to Spam Fighting …

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Spam Fighting Boot Camp: The Mission

Phishing Scam Targets Victims Using Better Business Bureau

This past holiday season showed that spending in brick and mortar stores was significantly off targeted projects. People just weren’t spending as much money in the malls and department stores. However every single study of consumer spending did show that …

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Phishing Scam Targets Victims Using Better Business Bureau

Go Phish Yourself?

A new open source toolkit is designed to provide a way for companies to educate their employees on how to spot phishing scams, but it may give scammers a lot of help as well. The open source Simple Phishing Toolkit …

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Go Phish Yourself?

Several New Phishing Campaigns Going Strong

Several new phishing campaigns have been spotted in the wild. The first one is a new incarnation of an old scam. Emails that look like they’ve come from your friends arrive with an urgent message about them being on a trip to …

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Several New Phishing Campaigns Going Strong

Kelihos Actions Continue: New Defendant Named

Last September we reported on Microsoft’s actions in taking down the Kelihos Botnet, and the civil actions pending against alleged perpetrators including Czech citizen Dominique Alexander Piatti and the dotFREE Group SRO. We then followed up with a story on …

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Kelihos Actions Continue: New Defendant Named

Week in Review: You Can’t Spell Twitter Without ‘Twit’

The year’s off to a rousing start, with all sorts of interesting security news this week: Wikipedia led a temporarily successful foray against SOPA and PIPA by joining numerous websites that went dark for a day; the founder of Megaupload …

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Week in Review: You Can’t Spell Twitter Without ‘Twit’

Fake LinkedIn Emails Delivering Spam

A new spam campaign is brand jacking popular social networking site LinkedIn to spreadlinks leading to shady domains. The emails, which look like notifications from the site telling the recipient they have a message waiting, contain links that allegedly lead …

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Fake LinkedIn Emails Delivering Spam

Spammers Targeting Kids Through Gaming Sites

Most adults are well aware of spam. Having encountered email spam since the early days, it is safe to say that many people over the age of 20 have at one time or another been educated, trained or have experience …

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Spammers Targeting Kids Through Gaming Sites

Zappos Data Breach Could Result in New Phishing Attacks

Early Monday morning I received an email from Zappos, the popular online retailer. Theemail informed me that they had been hacked and my personal info, along with that of 24 million other customers, had been compromised: First, the bad news: …

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Zappos Data Breach Could Result in New Phishing Attacks

Security Vulnerability Found in Facebook and Google – A Spammer’s Paradise

An open redirect vulnerability has been found on both Facebook and Google. This could easily be used to redirect users to a phishing page or a malicious domain. In a phishing attack, users wouldn’t even realize they’d been redirect, they’d just …

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Security Vulnerability Found in Facebook and Google – A Spammer’s Paradise

US-CERT Hooked by US-CERT Phishing Attack

This week, a phishing attack landed in the inboxes of several US government agencies, spoofing the US government’s cyber security watchdog and response agency. Complete with attachments, the e-mail’s payload was a nasty little virus that has already been tracked …

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US-CERT Hooked by US-CERT Phishing Attack

Exchange 2010 Safelist Aggregation ‘Crowdsources’ Anti-spam Efforts

You know that Exchange 2010 has its own anti-spam functionality, and you also know that users can set up their own safe and blocked sender and domain lists in Outlook 2007 and 2010, but did you know the two work …

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Exchange 2010 Safelist Aggregation ‘Crowdsources’ Anti-spam Efforts

Is 2012 the Year of Social Spam?

As the years pass, we often identify them with significant changes or events that occur of their span. Optimists often look for the most positive events over the year to attach to the label, The Year of…, realists however, take …

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Is 2012 the Year of Social Spam?