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Expert blasts Home Secretary email blunder

Expert blasts Home Secretary email blunder

A security expert criticized the U.K. Home Office after a document outlining new terror measures was sent to opposition parties with amendments and deletions still within the document's hidden metadata.
René Millman Sep 16 2005 5:04PM Security
Portal provides free email sender reputation data

Portal provides free email sender reputation data

CipherTrust has launched a new portal that provides data about email sender reputation by domain and IP address, free of charge.
Marcia Savage Aug 29 2005 5:46PM Security
Email virus hoaxers, cold as Ice

Email virus hoaxers, cold as Ice

Mobile phone viruses are being used as an excuse to send a hoax email that, ironically, does not actually contain a virus.
David Quainton Jul 19 2005 3:26PM Security
Yahoo and Cisco submit email authentication scheme

Yahoo and Cisco submit email authentication scheme

Yahoo and Cisco’s joint email authentication technology has finally been submitted as a standard to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
David Quainton Jul 12 2005 3:10PM Security
Red Cross warns of hoax UK bomb donation email

Red Cross warns of hoax UK bomb donation email

The Australian Red Cross has warned people not to respond to a hoax email that pretends to be collecting funds for victims of the London bombings.
Vivienne Fisher Jul 11 2005 3:50PM Security
Porn spam triples

Porn spam triples

Pornographic spam tripled during May from 5.62 to 14.05 percent of all spam, according to an internet security firm.
Ron Osborn Jun 23 2005 10:48AM Security
Email authentication scheme 'ready soon'

Email authentication scheme 'ready soon'

An email authentication standard with broad industry support could be ready within two months, providing e-commerce companies with a new weapon to beat phishing attacks.
David Quainton Jun 17 2005 3:15PM Security
Risk associated with outbound email spurs corporate monitoring

Risk associated with outbound email spurs corporate monitoring

Sixty-three percent of companies with 1,000 or more employees use or plan to use staff to read outgoing email, according to a survey by email security supplier Proofpoint.
Marcia Savage Jun 6 2005 7:40PM Security
Yahoo teams with Cisco on email authentication standard

Yahoo teams with Cisco on email authentication standard

Yahoo and Cisco Systems have collaborated on an authentication technology that aims to thwart email forgery by verifying emails' address of origin.
Marcia Savage Jun 1 2005 8:14PM Security
Alluring images hoodwink users

Alluring images hoodwink users

People are being lured into opening worm-carrying emails by subject lines referring to alluring pictures.
Vivienne Fisher May 30 2005 4:19PM Security
MYTOB variant fakes email errors

MYTOB variant fakes email errors

A new variant of the MYTOB worm has been discovered that pretends to be a legitimate email warning of a delivery error or email account problem.
Staff Writers May 10 2005 3:00PM Security
The best defense for email retention

The best defense for email retention

Some organizations believe that minimizing the retention time of historical email reduces their business risk. They make it a routine practice, and in certain instances attempt to set company-wide policies, to delete old electronic communications, assuming that the messages will not be needed nor recoverable in other places.
Bernie Goulet May 3 2005 10:13AM Security
Email trickery exploits Microsoft updates

Email trickery exploits Microsoft updates

Cyber criminals are exploiting Microsoft updates in an email scam designed to send users to bogus sites.
David Quainton Apr 8 2005 3:12PM Security
Thatcher husband decoy in email scam

Thatcher husband decoy in email scam

Former British Prime Minister Lady Thatcher's late husband, Sir Dennis, is being used in a sick email scam designed to con recipients out of money. The email, claiming to be from Thatcher’s executors, tells readers they will receive £950,000 as a reward for their charity work.
David Quainton Mar 18 2005 10:30AM Security
Increase in mass-mailers: Fortinet

Increase in mass-mailers: Fortinet

There was an increase in the number of mass mailing worms last month, according to a report from one security company.
Staff Writers , Staff Writers Mar 4 2005 3:28PM Security
CMA needs teeth so that it can bite email fraudsters

CMA needs teeth so that it can bite email fraudsters

As we well know, the provenance of an email message can't be trusted. Sadly, the general internet-hooked public had only been made aware of this recently, as a result of two developments.
Robert Schifreen Feb 22 2005 5:00PM Security
Keeping email as a service, not as a security hole

Keeping email as a service, not as a security hole

Email may make communication easier, but it is open to a variety of security and productivity issues.
Michael Patterson Feb 22 2005 2:51PM Security
SMS and email, the choice for Valentines

SMS and email, the choice for Valentines

More than 6.8 million SMS messages and 18.5 million emails were exchanged this Valentine's Day, according to Telstra. This is an increase from the 6.3 million SMS and 13 million emails messages sent last year.
Staff Writers Feb 17 2005 3:11PM Software
Australians love technology: survey

Australians love technology: survey

Life is speeding up for Australians as they make more use of technology, according to a recent survey.
Vivienne Fisher Feb 11 2005 1:00PM Strategy
Ex-AOL man pleads guilty to selling 92 million email addresses

Ex-AOL man pleads guilty to selling 92 million email addresses

A former employee of AOL has pleaded guilty to stealing 92 million email addresses from the ISP's databases.
René Millman Feb 8 2005 12:54PM Security

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