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With sincere apologies to Dr. Seuss and puns aside, phishing is no laughing matter if you become a victim. Typical phishing messages purport to originate from various financial institutions, delivery services, Facebook, and so on, all with the aim of getting you to click the enclosed link and disclose some personal information that can be abused.Read more

Having a bad reputation might have seemed cool when you were a teenager, but if your email server has been given a bad rap, it’s definitely UNcool especially if your business depends on delivering email. Trying to get your reputation back can be time consuming and costly, so the best approach is to do yourRead more

Incidents of cybercrime via malware and exploits are on the rise, but if this recent poll is to be believed, people are still too blast about their Internet security. The Unisys Security Index: Global Summary report 1 revealed the following: Concerns over security in everything from online shopping and banking to safety from computer viruses,Read more

There’s no denying that anti-spam filters are imperative in the fight against junk mail and malware, but no single solution is fool-proof. Employing anti-spam and virus filters, stronger passwords, encryption, and so on, are not enough to win the battle against the ever-increasingly sophisticated attackers. The Australian Communications and Media Authority  has recently called forRead more

Have you been hit by a ‘Drive-by-Download’? This is a term I’m seeing more and more frequently in security-related web posts and, frankly, I thought it was fairly new. After doing some research, however, I found an article entitled, Anatomy of a Drive-by-Download,’ that was written in 2004 (!) by Eric L. Howes. Where haveRead more