Companies are concerned with making money. This includes making the best fiscal decisions and avoiding risks. Employee behavior is just such a potential risk as employees are human and fraud is a constant concern. Protecting their employees against outside…
Originally Published on the Asia Cloud Computing Association Blog on January 29, 2013.
By: Per Dahlberg, pdahlberg@asiacloud.org
If there’s one prediction we can make for 2013 it is that cloud computing will become even more critical to Asian businesses and…
Recently, the Dutch company CyberBunker orchestrated one of the largest computer attacks ever seen towards internet spam tracking company Spamhaus. The attack, aimed at causing both widespread Internet congestion and jamming crucial infrastructure for the spam-blocking…
A defensive strategy for accepting email over IPv6
There is a legitimate concern about the additional workload that this will create – both for receivers and legitimate senders – in causing duplicate delivery of some/most/all legitimate email. I’d…
A defensive strategy for accepting email over IPv6
In general, content-based anti-spam filters need not be used for messages which have passed any of the aforementioned methods . A particular exception is scanning for malware; clearly, it is…
A defensive strategy for accepting email over IPv6
While using IP-address blocklists to prevent a great deal of spam is a well-established practice in the IPv4 environment, the large size of the IPv6 address space is likely…
Thanks to the sensationalism of mainstream media most people think only Fortune 500 companies are the targets of spear phishers. In reality, all companies are potential targets. Case in point, PATCO, a family-owned construction company in Maine, learned the…
Countless people rely on email daily, and every day we trust that it is running exactly how it’s supposed to; or we at least trust the email administrator makes sure of that.
Rarely do people notice when an email is…
Last week we reviewed the chief of police of Oakland, California and his unfortunate encounter with false positives. Having legitimate email being erroneously quarantined as spam is a common and serious issue that people often underestimate… until it…
A Real-World Example of What Happens When you Miss Important Emails
Like flying saucers, documented proof of email false positives – which occur when legitimate messages are erroneously quarantined as spam – has been hard to come by despite lots…
