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Tag Archives: SPAM
You can’t defeat SPAM when legitimate mail looks like SPAM!
One of the subtle changes in Microsoft’s new outlook.com replacement for Hotmail is that the messages about suspicious mail have changed. In Hotmail messages are simply described as suspicious, in outlook.com it is now clearly stated that the ”sender failed our … Continue reading
Posted in Computer and Internet, Phishing, Privacy, Security
Tagged authenticated mail, DKIM, Sender ID, SPAM, SPF
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Tumblr is back on my good side
In a piece I wrote a couple of weeks ago I’d brought up the problem of Tumblr hosting phishing/malicious web sites. Well after a few days of my feeding examples to Tumblr’s support team, and they taking down the sites, I haven’t … Continue reading
Malware or Not?
I’ve been doing an interesting experiment, in a virtual machine on a separate PC with no personal information at all on it. I’ve been going through SPAM emails and clicking on every link to see what happens. It is an … Continue reading
Posted in Computer and Internet, Phishing, Security
Tagged Anti-Malware, Crazy Slots Casino, Grand Casino, IE9, Immunet, malware, Microsoft Security Essentials, Phishing, SPAM
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SenderID Followup
I wanted to do a bit of a followup to my earlier SenderID post both to better capture the comments and make another observation. First I wanted to bring John Scarrow’s comment to the front of the discussion. John is … Continue reading
Is Hotmail’s “Trusted Sender” feature more than just show?
One year ago Microsoft introduced a feature in Hotmail that marked mail from a set of “trusted senders”, primarily banks, with a Trusted Sender icon. The idea was that if mail from your bank was marked with the icon you … Continue reading
Has Microsoft put the nail in the coffin on SenderID?
A funny thing happened on my way to some research on Anti-SPAM technologies, I found that Microsoft is wiping SenderID information from its website. When you try going to the web page for the SenderID Framework you are now redirected to a … Continue reading
Posted in Computer and Internet, Microsoft, Security
Tagged DKIM, email, Microsoft, Microsoft DKIM, Microsoft Sender ID, Microsoft SenderID, Phishing, Sender ID, Sender ID vs. SPF, SenderID, SPAM, SPF
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Sadly, data breaches are all too common
After blogging about BP’s lost laptop this morning I was checking my mail and discovered a note from one of my financial institutions about a breach at bulk email sender Epsilon that impacts me. Three of the largest credit card issuers … Continue reading
Posted in Computer and Internet, Privacy, Security
Tagged Data Breach, Epsilon, Phishing, SPAM
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