Email Security Matters blog
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Latest articles
- Grand Prize Winner of Fight Email Spam Survey (2012-02-21T14:00:06+00:00 by Damien Ramé)
We are extremely pleased with the tremendous response that we have received to this point from our Fight Email Spam survey. As promised we have randomly selected winners of our gift card prizes and most recently, the grand prize winner of an iPhone 4s. - Recent Winners of Fight Email Spam Survey (2012-01-23T22:51:34+00:00 by Damien Ramé)
We are extremely pleased with the tremendous response that we have received to this point from our Fight Email Spam survey. As promised we have randomly selected winners of our gift card prizes and the grand prize of an iPhone 4s. - New Year’s Resolution: A cleaner and healthier… desk. What a Mess! (2012-01-20T17:26:11+00:00 by Jennifer Ansell)
We spend 8 to 10 (or more) hours a day at work - more time than we spend anywhere else - and our desks/workspaces are becoming our kitchen tables. But, do you realize that our desks are covered in more bacteria than your average washroom?! - Email Usage Survey - are you overloaded? (2012-01-12T19:34:36+00:00 by Damien Ramé)
We are currently conducting a market research on email usage at work. Thank you for filling our this very short survey. - All I want for Christmas is a break from email (2011-12-22T20:20:01+00:00 by Luigi Petrolito)
With the holidays around the corner and most of us taking time off, you will certainly have a full inbox waiting for you when you get back. Set some rules before you take your leave, or better yet, start looking for a plug-in that can help you and others in your organization save time when you return from the holidays. - Anti-Spam for Exchange: Multi-Layer, Per-Domain & Per-User Configuration & Reports (2011-12-16T12:00:23+00:00 by Damien Ramé)
Does your anti-spam solution provide you with granular, muti-layer configuration and reports? Have you ever found yourself wishing you were able to set one domain’s, one department’s or one user’s anti-spam filtering differently than the rest? Multi-layer per-domain and per-user configuration is the correct prescription. - Fight Email Spam and Win! (2011-12-09T12:01:24+00:00 by Damien Ramé)
We want to hear what spam challenges you face - even if you don’t use Vircom’s spam solutions. Take our 3-minute survey on Spam and enter for a chance to win cool prizes, including the new iPhone 4S. We will use the data to continue improving our product and will share our findings with you. - AAACHOOO! (2011-12-07T18:19:03+00:00 by Jennifer Ansell)
Yes indeed, it’s cold and flu season again. If you sit at your desk 5 days a week, and for long hours at a time, you are at a serious disadvantage when it comes to flu prevention. Yes you! While you sit there coding, eating, coughing and sneezing, your desk, keyboard, phone and even your monitor and ear-buds or headset have become a sea of germs. If you want to keep from getting sick over and over again, or stop your team members from passing bugs around, there are simple steps to take... - Part 2: How to monitor application performance and send alerts on Windows Server 2008 (2011-11-30T18:47:49+00:00 by Yves Lacombe)
In my previous article, I outlined how one could monitor a performance counter and send alerts to a pager or smartphone on a Windows 2003 server. This is how to do it on Windows Server 2008... - Just Back It Up (2011-11-23T15:55:03+00:00 by Jason Carreiro)
Have you ever imagined what would happen if a medium to large business suffers massive data loss due to a hardware failure, and no backup procedures were in place? Tens of thousands of dollars - even millions - could be lost. - Hacking Facebook: A Socialbot Infiltrating Approach (2011-11-16T13:38:45+00:00 by Deeptiman Jugessur)
Last week I read a fascinating yet terrifying paper on the natural evolution of bots. The paper is called “The Socialbot Network: When Bots Socialize for Fame and Money” by Boshmaf et al. Bots in the email security world have been around for a while and are used primarily for spamming. Socialbots are programs that mimic humans and infiltrate social networks to farm for personal data. The paper is a great read on how the authors engineered a Socialbot network and released it on Facebook. - Please take my money! (2011-11-07T22:01:55+00:00 by Marc Chouinard)
Here’s the latest phishing attempt that I think is worth sharing. Long gone are the days when “photoshopping” pictures was done only for online dating! - Get Back! (2011-11-02T13:51:51+00:00 by Jennifer Ansell)
Oh my aching back! Too many people who work seated for long hours at a stretch complain of aching, sore and stiff backs. If your posture is less than perfect, you may also be experiencing low energy levels and breathing trouble. - Smartphone security: an overview of security frameworks and controlled app marketplaces Part 4 of 4 (2011-10-26T12:00:35+00:00 by Mike Petsalis)
The more controlled smartphone application marketplaces require a thorough application vetting process. - How to change the SQL Max worker threads to improve performance (2011-10-20T12:10:28+00:00 by Jason Carreiro)
A “normal” SQL installation on a standard Windows Server will usually run without performance or bottleneck issues. However, a 32-bit server with 4 processors or less uses only 256 worker threads, which is predefined by the SQL installer.
