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May 2007 - Posts

• Email Disaster Recovery is Email Peace of Mind

  Are you ready if your email server blows up? That is the question we asked ourselves at our headquarters this past Friday morning. Fortunately for us, the answer is YES. Shortly after most of us had just come into the office and started to get the coffee Read More... Posted Friday, May 18, 2007 4:37 PM by Joel | 0 Comments Filed under: Risk, Disaster Recovery

• New Image Spam Technique

  Image spam gained prominece as a major vehicle for spam delivery roughly one year ago. At first, most spam filters were ineffective at blocking the image based messages. Since then, image filtering has become more effective and, as a result, spammers Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 16, 2007 3:12 PM by Joel | 0 Comments Filed under: Image Spam

• Window's Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) Used To Download and Update Malware

  Security researchers have published a proof of concept program modeled after an actual attack that shows how hackers can user Microsoft Window's Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) to download and Update Malware. BITS is used Windows for automated Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 15, 2007 1:08 PM by Joel | 0 Comments Filed under: Malware, Trojans, Hacker Techniques

• Spam and Malware a Growing Problem for Small Businesses

  A survey of 400 small and medium sized business found that spam and malware infections have grown dramatically from 2006 to 2007. In January 2006, 64% of emails received by small businesses were spam. By December 2006, the number grew to 85%. Not surprisingly, Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 15, 2007 12:33 PM by Joel | 0 Comments Filed under: Small Business IT, Spam

• Prostitute Spam

  A new wave of image spam with subject lines like "Find a Girl in Your Town" touting a website that claims to help recipients find prostitutes in their area is making the rounds now. The messages contain a URL that must be typed into a browser. The URL Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 15, 2007 12:23 PM by Joel | 0 Comments Filed under: Spam, prostitue spam, image spam, escort spam

• Death Threat Spam

  A new social engineering spam scam emerged last week. The Death Threat Spam has a message purporting to be from a hitman who has been hired to kill the recipient. The text of the message varies slightly, but is essentially the same-- "I have been hired Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 15, 2007 12:09 PM by Joel | 1 Comments Filed under: Spam, death threat spam

• How Legitimate IP Addresses Get Blacklisted

  "I'm Not a Spammer, so why is my IP Address Blacklisted?" Everyday, legitimate email users find their outbound email flow blocked by recipient email servers using blacklists (aka Blocklists, RBLs) to block spam. Most of these users are shocked to find Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 02, 2007 5:50 PM by Joel | 0 Comments Filed under: Blacklist

• Messaging Security: April in Review

  April, 2007 was a busy month in the messaging security world. In just 30 days, we saw: Record set for Email Viruses in one Month Growth of Layered Threats-Spam, Plus Social Engineering, Plus Malware Storm Worm , Part II: Image Spam with password protected Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 02, 2007 1:14 PM by Joel | 0 Comments Filed under: messaging security