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  • Protecting your network against email threats

    Posted November 11, 2008 - 3:58 am

    The widespread use of email has provided hackers and crackers with an easy way to distribute harmful content to the internal network. Hackers can easily circumvent the protection offered by a firewall by tunneling through the email protocol, since it does not analyze email content.

  • Virus Cracks Open Email Scam

    Posted October 23, 2008 - 10:13 am

    This story is near and dear to me. One day I went into a frenzy, because a good friend sent me an email that she was stranded in Ghana and needed me to send her some money. She never mentioned she was going to Ghana. I was taken off guard at first, because I had a couple of other friends who had gone to Ghana to work, about the same time.

  • Malware Laden Spam on the Rise Again

    Posted October 13, 2008 - 5:18 am

    Security experts are reporting that malware laden spam is on the increase. The malware is either delivered via .zip or .rar attachments or by directing the recipient to a compromised website via a link. Another method rising in popularity is the embedding of malicious code into the source code of the message.
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