Collaborate Disseminate
Another big malspam campaign again today pushing the crappy, scummy, useless Forskolin weight loss junk I quickly found out about this because Hotmail have sent me a series of failure messages, where somebody is spoofing my email address to send this crap: Some subjects in the original emails include ( … Continue reading → Continue reading Another Forskolin spam email campaign using spoofed email addresses
A slightly different informational report today, that illustrates the benefits of setting up authentication correctly on your outgoing mail server and using DMARC reporting. I won’t go into DMARC too deeply here because there are hundreds of sites explaining how to set it up and why you should use it. … Continue reading → Continue reading Another compromised tech support company server sending spam. Why you should use DMARC
What can you do to better protect your online email accounts?
In this special edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast, regular hosts Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined by special guest Paul Ducklin, share tips on how to better defend your Gm… Continue reading Smashing Security #014: Protecting webmail
A massive spam operation that sent out more than one billion messages a day was exposed by researchers who called the operation “illegal” and a “tangible threat to online privacy and security.” Continue reading Spammer’s Leaky Backup Exposes Massive Empire
A massive spam operation that sent out more than one billion messages a day was exposed by researchers who called the operation “illegal” and a “tangible threat to online privacy and security.” Continue reading Spammer’s Leaky Backup Exposes Massive Empire
The revelations (last October) that Microsoft is quietly recycling email addresses from its Hotmail, Live, and Outlook.com domains might have come as a surprise to some. According to an email statement from Microsoft to PCWorld.com cited in the article, when an account becomes inactive, “the email account is automatically queued for deletion from our servers.
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Email systems seem to be in a perpetual state of migration. Since 1996, the on-premises implementation of Microsoft email technology has gone through nine major changes, or roughly one every two years. No sooner are you done and dusted with one migration than the next appears on the horizon. It’s a wonder that we get any real work done at all.