Tag Archives: email security

The ever-popular Microsoft TechEd 2011 was held last month from May 16, 2011 – May 19, 2011 in Atlanta, GA, USA. The event was very well attended and GFI were also present in booth #1915 with the theme ‘Fast and …

Survey: More Than 60% of U.S. Small Businesses in Danger of Losing Critical Emails 62.4% of SMEs do not currently use a mail archiving solution – opening the door to a host of issues including: limited email backup and restore, …

According to a recent report, business users send and receive an average of 110 emails per day. Such a figure indicates that email continues to play a predominant role in the day-to-day activities of an organization and that its use …

Education is an integral part of security. Educating your employees can be an effective defence against attacks; it can also help save money in some cases. Part of your bandwidth costs is consumed by spam and as such educating employees …

The phishing attack that led to more than 10,000 Hotmail, MSN and Live.com passwords being exposed online earlier this week has provided an interesting glimpse into the mindset of email users when setting up their accounts. A researcher who managed …

On the 22nd June I posted about the importance of securing the human element in an organization, and in that same week, the universe, or more correctly cyberspace, decided to provide a real world example of some of the points that …

You may already be familiar with SPAM emails that contain just one sentence about weight loss; Oprah and the infamous Acai berries. What is interesting about this current spam storm is that the spammer did not try to bypass any anti-spam filtering technologies. Surely, most products would have filtered such email as spam. Hence, the question to pose is ‘What is the aim of such spam?’