Continue Reading Add comment December 12th, 2008 04:39pm admin
Why leave the door open to a hacker after hours. Using a schedule to block this feature is like pulling down the security bars you see in the mall. Using this same feature you could restrict inbound e-mail to reasonable hours.
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Continue Reading Add comment December 12th, 2008 04:31pm admin
Every year at the holidays we see an upsurge of ‘postcard ware’ based malware. They look like a e-card from a loved one so you are enticed to open them up and while some do display a pretty picture or a play a nice tune in the background they are infecting your pc.
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Continue Reading Add comment December 8th, 2008 01:14pm admin
Well it was a nice but brief vacation from three of the big Botnets as McColo was shut down last month but by all reports the Mega-D botnet looks to be back and at near full strength.
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Continue Reading Add comment December 8th, 2008 12:50pm admin
Once in a while – say every 6 months – why not get a second opinion on if your computer is infected with something that your existing anti-virus product may have missed? It is also handy to have a list like this just in case you do notice something wrong with your computer (slowdown or unexpected pop-ups or error messages) and your existing up to date AV solution doesn’t set off the warning sirens.
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Continue Reading Add comment December 8th, 2008 12:22pm admin
With both the holiday and the economic down turn just around the corner it is tempting to ‘work from home’ and ‘make big cash’ but most of these offers send via e-mail are for money mules working for organized crime.
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Continue Reading Add comment December 2nd, 2008 11:39am admin
The DSBL list which was used by some anti-spam systems to block open relay and proxy servers that could be used by spammers to forward spam has been taken off-line.
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Continue Reading Add comment December 1st, 2008 04:38pm admin
Over at IT Business they are reporting that Internet Relay Chat or IRC is again a popular place for Cyber Criminals to hang out and market their ill-gotten gains. With a market estimated at 7 Billion dollars you can be sure that they aren’t going away anytime soon.
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Continue Reading Add comment November 28th, 2008 07:41pm Shaun
Some sites that you go to want you to register and provide a valid e-mail address to send you your password or a signup verification link.
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Continue Reading Add comment November 19th, 2008 04:32pm admin
Brief respite from spam could be over as McColo hands off Command and Control of Botnets to a Russian network.
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Continue Reading Add comment November 19th, 2008 11:48am admin
Has it come to this? Do we need an anti-spam engine so powerful that it becomes self aware?
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Shaun Sturby is our Technical Services Manager, and Optrics' point person for email security, and network security. |
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Shaun Sturby, MCSE |
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