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.
Here’s an interesting article on the BBC News website that shows that spammers are turning a profit despite only getting one response for every 12.5m e-mails they send.
Spammers continue to take advantage of anything ‘newsworthy’ or ‘sensational’ like the recent US Presidential election
The spammers are always quick to take advantage of any news story or trend and the latest is a great example as the following news article shows.
An interesting article that analyzed spam sent to both real and fake e-mail addresses over an 8 week period which shows that e-mail accounts that start with some letters get more spam than others. (Aardvarks vs. Zebra in the article).
US-CERT is warning everyone that Spammers and Hackers are at it again with the “Storm Worm” using news of a fictitious US war with Iran to get you to open their email.
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Technical Services Manager, and Optrics' point person for email security |
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