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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

Is it good or bad? Well the answer is it depends. If your organization only operates within North-America, for instance, blocking the more prolific spam sources by country may be a very good way to reduce the amount of traffic hitting your MTA. For example, you could block all traffic coming from the top-10 spamRead more

Should Cybercriminals face life in jail? Announced this week in New Delhi, India, cyber-terrorism is now punishable with life-time imprisonment. An amendment was made to the Information Technology Act that was passed in 2008 to now include new-age cyber offences such as identity theft, cyber stalking and cyber harassment, among others. Special services of theRead more

With all the buzz around social media (and notably so), industry analysts are declaring email a thing of ‘the past’ and that social media applications, namely sites like Twitter and Facebook, will take over as our online method of communications. As technology evolves, it drives the habits of consumers. Remember the Betamax vs. VHS fight?Read 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