Tag Archives: email security

It may bother you, and it may incite you to fits of rage. It may make you want to escape to a log cabin in the woods. It may even compel you to change careers and become a spam bounty …

It seems that every week a new company, organization or government agency has become the poster child for what not to do when protecting valuable data. This week alone, the U.S. Government announced that one of its biggest defense contractors …

Recent activity indicates a significant reduction in spam levels, but no one should find comfort in this news. Spammers are making it personal, a new report from Cisco suggests, and at fault may be the law enforcement community for taking …

You must have heard about the data theft from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by now, in which a “large quantity” of data was reported to have been pillaged.  While details are hardly forthcoming at this junction – and who …

Three researchers from the University of California decided to take a closer look at phishing techniques that scammers can enact on mobile platforms. The study examined the use of phishing websites designed with mobile platforms and gadgets in mind, outlining …

If a big fish like Condé Nast can fall victim to a simple spear phishing scam, what does that say for the state of enterprise wide security to protect against these types of schemes? With phishing schemes becoming more sophisticated (relatively speaking), is anyone safe?

Subscribers to the Trapster service may be able to avoid speed traps while driving their cars but they may not be able to avoid spammers when operating their computers. That’s because some 10 million users of the service may have …

‘Tis the season to take five simple steps to help prevent spam.

AT&T. still stinging from embarrassment after their poor network coverage prevented Steve Jobs from connecting to the internet with his iPad during his WWDC keynote speech, now has an even bigger PR nightmare to contend with. A group of hackers …

A popular security term is “defence in depth”.  It sounds really clever and evokes images of multiple layers of protection from a threat. An example of defence in depth would be a perimeter network firewall, a secondary firewall, third tier …