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• You Better Watch Out…Or You Just Might Cry

  The holidays are a tricky time for e-mail security. It’s the time of year when everyone is so busy getting ready for the holidays that little things can get through your security wall much easier. You are busy at work finishing projects and getting ready Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 25, 2008 3:03 PM by Suzanne | 0 Comments Filed under: Phishing, Holiday Spam, Spam Levels Rise

• Zimbra’s Search Tools Make E-Mail Manageable

  E-mail is easy to lose. While it is not easy to lose the actual e-mail, it is incredibly easy for an important e-mail to get pushed down to the bottom of your inbox or put into a folder and then forgotten. E-mail is one of the most effective organizational Read More... Posted Monday, October 27, 2008 10:28 AM by Suzanne | 0 Comments Filed under: Zimbra Search Capability

• Zimbra Comes to the iPhone

  The people who work at your company are always on the go. Meetings, conferences, site visits all take us away from the office and while laptops are small, they are just too heavy to carry around just so you can have access to e-mail, but e-mail is important Read More... Posted Monday, September 22, 2008 3:05 PM by Suzanne | 0 Comments Filed under: collaboration software, Zimbra, iPhone

• Malware Infected Pfizer Computers Sending Viagra Spam

  One of the most ironic spam stories we have seen to date was reported yesterday at Wired . For at least six months, botnet infected computers at Pfizer have spewed out a steady stream of Viagra spam. The infection has taken it's toll on Pfizers internet Read More... Posted Friday, September 07, 2007 3:45 PM by Joel | 1 Comments Filed under: Botnets, Viagra Spam

• Hackers Steal $450,000 From Carson City, Ca...Almost

  A keylogger program on the Carson City, California City Treasurer's laptop recorded city fincial account passwords and allowed hackers to transfer $450,000 in funds to bank accounts in North Carolina and Michigan. City officials quiclkly noticed the missing Read More... Posted Friday, June 01, 2007 2:43 PM by Joel | 0 Comments Filed under: hackers

• RTF Trojan Targets Executive Data

  An email disguised as a message from the IRS is targeting corporate executive's information. The email contains a Rich Text File (RTF) titled complaint.rtf, which, if opened, downloads a trojan to the executive's computer. The trojan steals login passwords Read More... Posted Friday, June 01, 2007 1:13 PM by Joel | 0 Comments Filed under: Trojan

• Phishing URLs at All Time High

  The Anti-Phising Working Group (APWG) reports that the number Phising URLs detected in April was 55,643, almost double the previous record total. April also saw a departure from Phishing URLs targeted almost exclusively at stealing login information for Read More... Posted Friday, June 01, 2007 1:08 PM by Joel | 0 Comments Filed under: Phising, social engineering, hackers

• So-Called Spam King Arrested - What Does that Mean for Spam?

  Robert Alan Soloway was arrested in Seattle on Wednesday. Dubbed "The Spam King" by authorities, Soloway allegedly spammed tens of millions of messages. Most of these contained links to websites where his company, Newport Internet Marketing, sold products Read More... Posted Friday, June 01, 2007 12:56 PM by Joel | 0 Comments Filed under: Spam, Spam Rates

• France Launches Anti-Spam Platform "Signal Spam"

  France has launched a central platform for French internet users to report spam, which will be used to generate a blacklist, notify ISPs and prosecute spammers. French speaking Internet users can copy and paste a spam message (and presumably the message Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 16, 2007 2:46 PM by Joel | 0 Comments Filed under: Spam, Spam Laws, anti-spam

• Google Says 10% of Websites Infected with Malware

  Google reports that an in-depth survey it conducted of 4.5 Million websites shows that 10% of websites are infected with "drive by" malware. The average user's computer is simply not equipped to defend agaist these kind of threats, where simply visiting Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 16, 2007 2:26 PM by Joel | 0 Comments Filed under: Malware, Web Filtering, web-based malware, messaging security, email security

• Update: Bots Inside Fortune 1000 Companies

  We first reported on bots inside Fortune 1000 companies in late March. Since then, the Support Intellegence Project has identified more large corporations with botnet infections. The list has grown to include AIG, AFLAC, Bank of America, Conseco, Thomsen Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 02, 2007 12:42 PM by Joel | 0 Comments Filed under: Botnets

• House Judiciary Subcommittee Approves Anti-Spyware Bill

  The House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security approved house bill HR 1525 by voice vote. The bill will now go before Congress for a vote. If voted into law, HR 1525 will make it a crime to install software to alter security settings, Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 02, 2007 12:37 PM by Joel | 0 Comments Filed under: Spyware

• $1 Billion Lawsuit Filed Against Spammers

  On April 26, 2007, Project Honey Pot filed a $1 Billion Dollar Plus lawsuit against spammers in a court in the Eastern District of Virginia. The suit seeks damages on behalf of its members and targets a "large swath" of known spammers and email address Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 02, 2007 12:27 PM by Joel | 0 Comments Filed under: anti-spam, spam lawsuits

• Virus Authors Use Google Ads to Spread Malware

  Maware authors have employed Google's paid advertisements to direct surfers to virus infected websites. Hackers are buying paid advertisments for keywords such as Better Business Bereau, BBB, and Cars.com. When surfers click on a hacker's advertisment Read More... Posted Monday, April 30, 2007 1:38 PM by Joel | 0 Comments Filed under: ppc malware, web-based malware

• Web Based Malware Increases

  There were 23,000 new cases of Web Based Malware in the first quarter of 2007, compared with 9,000 in the first quarter of 2006. This represents an increase of approximately 150%. 70% of infected web pages were legitimate sites that had been hacked (recent, Read More... Posted Monday, April 30, 2007 1:18 PM by Joel | 0 Comments Filed under: Malware, Tactics