Archive for the 'Email Security' Category


The time has come to ditch email

by Kelly Martin, SecurityFocus 

Comment Back in 1972, by some accounts, a new form of communication known as email was born. It was a practical implementation of electronic messaging that was first seen on local timeshare computers in the 1960s. I can only imagine how much fun and revolutionary it must have been to use email […]

Fix SMTP and leave port 25 alone for the sake of spam

by George Ou

Fix SMTP and leave port 25 alone for the sake of spam by ZDNet’s George Ou — Larry Seltzer of eWeek, whom I have great respect for and usually agree with, wrote this article on dealing with spam using the controversial tactic of blocking all outbound port 25 access.? The logic behind this […]

Email Anti Spam And Virus Protection For Businesses - There Is Hope

by John Tourloukis

With anti spam vendors offering low cost licensing, businesses can now afford advanced email spam and virus protection with a simple to use interface at a much lower cost. The great thing about technology is that as it evolves it gets faster, additional features and economical. Over the past few years the same […]

The Economics of Spam

by Sam Vaknin 

Tennessee resident K. C. “Khan” Smith owes the internet service provider EarthLink $24 million. According to the CNN, in August 2001 he was slapped with a lawsuit accusing him of violating federal and state Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statutes, the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1984, the federal Electronic […]