SPAM Is Out of Control Lately, we have been experiencing a huge influx of SPAM emails, but this time, things are not what they seem. Our email server uses a software application called MailScanner, which checks every email message and gives it a score. The…
Email Attachments and MailScanner MailScanner is a highly respected open-source email security system design for Linux-based email gateways. It is used at over 40,000 sites around the world, protecting top government departments, commercial corporations, and educational institutions. This technology has fast become the standard email…
Using Outlook to Block SPAM Does SPAM have you down lately? If you are using Microsoft Outlook, you can actually control some of the anti-SPAM features, and when used correctly, you can greatly reduce the amount of SPAM that makes it to your email inbox,…
Email Phishing Part 4 of 4 Following on the heels of the previous phishing emails, this one is supposedly a HUMAN RESOURCE INTERNAL MEMO, and yep, you guessed it, I'm getting a raise., Yahoooooo!!! It's about time, lol. Human Resources Internal Memo Clicking on the…
Phishing Team Part 3 of 4 While I was drafting the previous Phishing post, this one came in. This time they tried to make it look like there was an Urgent message in Teams for me. If you are not familiar with Teams, it is…
Weekend Phishing Trip Part 2 of 4 According to my email, I'm getting an increase in my salary, nice! It looks like I'm being Spear Phished for some reason, but they didn't do their homework on me, as the first email, I got earlier (see…
Let's Go Phishing Part 1 of 4 Recently, I (Joe) received an email that looked like an email that our email server would automatically send out to an email user. It came from support@simplywebservices.com, and it was to joe@simplywebservices.com The subject was "Pending messages couldn't be delivered,…
WordPress - Is It Time To Update WordPress: It Is Extremely Important To Keep Your Site Updated I would estimate that more than 95% of the websites on our servers have WordPress as their CMS (Content Management System). Why not, it is extremely flexible and…
What is Pixel Tracking? Did you know that email marketers use a dirty little nearly invisible trick to track you and to keep tracking you?It is called 'Pixel Tracking' and it is when they insert a "microscopic" pixel or image into the email code, that…