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Category Archives: Spam
Phishing: Preparing Your Last Line of Defense
You’re hurried. You’re under deadline. Clicking, clicking, clicking away at your keyboard. You can hit the backspace after every typo, but if you accidentally click the wrong emailed link, there are no second chances. You’ve just fallen prey to a … Continue reading →
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Making Email Work Better
In a previous post, I shared some thoughts on how users can help overcome email overload by adopting better habits on both the sending and receiving ends. But a big part of taming the beast is making it happen before … Continue reading →
Malware Increased Nearly 400% – From our Good Partner, CommTouch
If there was any question about whether email-borne malware is still an effective tactic for cybercriminals, the past weeks have made it clear someone believes it is. 10′s of billions of malware-laden email messages have been detected by Commtouch in … Continue reading →
Sendmail Sentrion App of the Month: TrustSphere LogiQ (BoxSentry)
According to Ferris Research, lost emails cost companies about $3.5 Billion each year, mostly due to “false positives”, meaning legitimate messages that are triggering spam filters for a variety of wrong reasons. As part of our ongoing “App of the … Continue reading →
Spammers return from holiday – levels shoot back up
After one of the quietest spam periods in Commtouch recorded history, spammers are clearly back at work. The quiet period neatly matches the Christmas-New Year holiday season but also seems to add the Russian New Year and Russian Orthodox Christmas … Continue reading →