Author Archives: David Gillam

Dangers of Email in the Cloud – Who’s Accessing Your Private Data?

Posted on January 14, 2011 by David Gillam

People love getting things for free.  Companies love to save money on essential services.  As a result, many people are using free cloud email services, and many companies are using inexpensive cloud email services.  Have you ever read the contracts … Continue reading →

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Dangers of Email in the Cloud – Disappearing Email!

Posted on January 10, 2011 by David Gillam

People don’t realize how much they depend on email until they don’t have access to it.  Recently, many subscribers to Microsoft’s Hotmail service logged in to find all their email had been deleted.  If that ever happened to me, I’d … Continue reading →

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DARPA looking at ways to overcome common network filtering techniques

Posted on May 21, 2010 by David Gillam

I ran across this article in The Register about how DARPA is looking for partners to develop methods to overcome common network filtering techniques, such as DNSBL and Content Heuristics. Here’s my take on this: In a military scenario, this … Continue reading →

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Malware attacks that bypass virtually all antivirus protection software?

Posted on May 12, 2010 by David Gillam

A recent article in The Register discusses a new malware attack that is capable of bypassing virtually all antivirus protection software.  This coincides with many customer reports of highly targeted malware attacks.   Fortunately, Sendmail has multiple ways to help … Continue reading →

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Botnet Trends

Posted on March 2, 2010 by David Gillam

I ran across this interesting article that came out a couple of weeks ago and wanted to give you my take on this. Botnets are serious problems that need to be addressed. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/17/spam_botnet_trends/ Synopsis: 5 botnets are responsible for most … Continue reading →

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