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We are extremely pleased with the tremendous response that we have received to this point from our Fight Email Spam survey. As promised we have randomly selected winners of our gift card prizes and the grand prize of an iPhone 4s. The gift card winners are: Alain St.-Pierre from Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Quebec $50 Best Buy giftRead more

Does your anti-spam solution provide you with granular, muti-layer configuration and reports? Have you ever found yourself wishing you were able to set one domains, one departments or one users anti-spam filtering differently than the rest? Multi-layer per-domain and per-user configuration is the correct prescription. As discussed in previous articles (see My catch-rate is betterRead more

I just came back from a 2-week vacation in France. Prior to leaving, I looked at Orange.fr, a large service provider in France that offered, among other things, mobile phone plans. The idea was to get a prepaid SIM card for my mobile phone, so that I could have a local (French) number to useRead more

Even spammers evolve with time. As we become better equipped to deal with traditional spam email, spammers have had to rethink their methods of cyber attack. The result is phishing – targeted attacks aimed to gain access to highly sensitive personal or corporate data, such as usernames, passwords or credit card details, by luring unsuspectingRead more

I came across an interesting report entitled “2010 MAAWG Email Security Awareness and Usage Report from the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG). The report was compiled from a January 2010 survey that the MAAWG conducted of more than 3,700 email users (who do not rely on an IT person to manage their email address) in 6Read more