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Hundreds of emails get blocked daily by your spam filters, but sometimes one slips through. You look it over and it appears to be very legitimate. You don’t remember clicking to subscribe to this newsletter, but you see the classic, You are receiving this because you subscribed to one of our partners blah, blah, blahRead more

So you think spam volumes have gone down, right? Wrong! Have a look at this video which captures the stats quite well!. JESS3 / The State of The Internet from JESS3 on Vimeo. 90 TRILLION email sent in 2009 247 BILLION email sent daily 1.4 BILLION email users WORLDWIDE 81%: the percentage of emails thatRead more

Spamhaus publicly released its new Domain Block List (DBL)1 earlier this week, after beta testing it for much of last year. They claim they have had ‘exceptionally positive’ results from the testing, and the premise is really quite interesting. Up to now, people have been using separate tools to verify different parts of email messagesRead more

While working on a False Positive (yes, it can happen to the best of us), I was stunned to discover how marketing people can bend email security rules. The details The message is a newsletter from a well-known Canadian bank: they’re sending an insurance reminder because the renewal date is coming up and they’re tryingRead more

Ah, Valentine’s Day, the time of year when suddenly everyone is starry-eyed and declaring their love for one another. Our eagerness to please our loved ones tends to make us a little more vulnerable. And this makes us perfect prey to scammers who pounce on these vulnerabilities to spread their viruses and scams. According toRead more