Are you sending bulk email? If you are, and you are not following these simple steps, you may be a junk mailer or spammer. Sooner or later, this will catch up to you and you’ll be blacklisted. Follow these steps to avoid this problem!
Are you sending bulk email? Better buckle up for safety.
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In 2008, and again last year around the holiday season, we saw a lot of emails purporting to be from the “United Postal Service” with an attached file claiming to be the tracking or delivery confirmation information for your shipment. They were fake, and they’re back.
Last week, Google took a very important step in improving security on their systems’ accounts, including Gmail: 2-Factor Authentication.
If you must send an email to a large group, use a mail merge or, at least, the BCC field.
Trusting Google does not just mean “trusting that Google won’t do anything evil with my data.” It also means “trusting Google will never make a mistake which accidentally opens my data up to anyone else.”
After a long period of apparent stagnation, Mozilla Messaging, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, has released the long-awaited Thunderbird 3. In short, if you do not require connectivity to a Microsoft Exchange server (for calendar, contacts, and other non-email data) I recommend you try Thunderbird 3.
This week’s Data Security Podcast had two items that really piqued my interest. The first was an article about an Ohio hospital which suffered data loss due to a malware infection. The malware was sent by the boyfriend of a hospital worker. Apparently he intended to follow his girlfriend’s movements on the Internet on her […]
The Astaro Security Gateway is a product we have been using for a few years with various clients as a UTM (Unified Threat Management) device. It offers a number of features that they require, including network security, email security, and web surfing security.