According to recent survey conducted by Proofpoint, concerning email security trends, the following key findings have been highlighted: Spear phishing? It appears that a staggering 48% of respondents believe their organization to have been targeted by some form of phishing email scam, which was designed to compromise their PC usage.
08.3.10 | Computer Safety Tip | admin
Unfortunately cybercriminals are back at it again, this time they are going out of their way to trick users. These emails which are being sent around to trick users, have been created in order to look almost identical to the real Amazon emails. You need to be aware of any emails which you receive which [...]
06.28.10 | Computer News | admin
The Sarah Palin hacking case is finally getting somewhere according to latest news reports. A twenty two year old Student whose name is David C. Kernel was found guilty of hacking into the Yahoo email account of Sarah Palin. This hacking attack happened in 2008, when Sarah Palin at the time was helping Arizona Senator [...]
05.3.10 | Computer News | admin
When confronted with the numerous amounts of spam e4ach day, one begins to wonder what spam filters are there for anyway? Why have these spam filters not improved to such an extent that spam does not filter through at all? Why do we still need to painstakingly search through every single email we receive – [...]
04.30.10 | Computer News | admin
According to Symantec, spam now officially accounts for almost ninety per cent of email worldwide. Two Botnets have caused this spam escalation. These botnets go by the names of Grum and Rustock. Grum started creating problems in February which increases the number of spam that was generated by fifty one percent. Rustock also started creating [...]
03.9.10 | Computer News | admin
From a default point of view Windows 7 doesn’t have a build in desktop email client. The fundamental issue with this is that you will need to login to your email account via your internet browser in order to gain access to your email account. This can be very frustrating for the majority of people [...]
03.3.10 | Windows 7 Tips | admin
The 0x800CCC0B error when trying to send email through outlook express is a common error that is often encountered on an attempt to send your first email from third party email services such as gmail (google mail). You are able to receive email and the POP account may appear to work fine without a problem. [...]
03.26.09 | Computer Tips And Tricks | admin
Firefox 3 had a successful release and now Mozilla is putting their efforts in the evolution of its revolutionary email client, the Thunderbird. Thunderbird 3 gives importance to performance improvements; ranging from navitigation through the mails using database technology, integration with native searching, indexing, address book and fast fetching and sending of mails.
03.14.09 | Computer News | admin
Email with a Ribbon on It Goodmail Systems Inc. has developed a way to fight email fraud like phishing, the scam that uses what appear to be legitimate email messages from companies or other organizations to get victims to reveal information like Social Security numbers or credit-card account passwords. Goodmail’s clients are companies, nonprofits and [...]
01.23.09 | Computer News | admin
Hotmail Account Is Sending Messages on Its Own: Every day at a certain time, Sam’s Hotmail account sends over 100 emails which he has not sent personally. Most of the auto-emails are returned as undeliverable. And how can Sam stop these unofficial emails from being sent from his account? The experts agreed that Sam may [...]
01.3.09 | Computer Safety Tip | admin
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