Tag Archives: email security

Have 10 million Trapster users been exposed to spammers?

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 …

Have 10 million Trapster users been exposed to spammers?
   

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

Five steps to take before the holiday season spam starts
   

Data Breach Exposes Email Addresses of Over 100,000 iPad Users

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 …

Data Breach Exposes Email Addresses of Over 100,000 iPad Users
   

Should You Use More Than One Anti-Spam Product?

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 …

Should You Use More Than One Anti-Spam Product?
   

Bank Forces Google to Shut Down a GMail Account After Data Breach

When a Wyoming bank’s employee unwittingly created a large data breach, an innocent GMail user paid the price. It all began when a clerk at Rocky Mountain Bank sent an email containing nearly 1500 customer names, addresses, SSN numbers and …

Bank Forces Google to Shut Down a GMail Account After Data Breach
   

Go Beyond Encryption with a Tunnel

Protection of email traffic flowing between hub servers and separate servers that store mail box accounts is established through encryption in an Exchange 2007 environment. So interception of emails transported between the hub and mail server is nearly prevented with …

Go Beyond Encryption with a Tunnel
   

BCC Blues

PGP recently sent the following message to potential customers:           Good Afternoon I work in the PGP Business Development team, working with organisations that have a need to prevent the exposure of intellectual property that can result in financial loss, …

BCC Blues
   

The importance of filtering outgoing email in Exchange environments

When planning an email security solution many organizations put a lot of thought and effort into protecting their environment from external threats.  They use such measures as blocklists and content filtering to prevent spam from reaching end user mailboxes. Despite …

The importance of filtering outgoing email in Exchange environments
   

Don’t Pass It On!

Around the holiday, I always see more chain emails coming through from well-intended friends and relatives, and so it’s time for an annual warning. Some of these chain emails just have interesting pictures, some make outrageous claims. A large majority …

Don’t Pass It On!