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10 things you should be doing to protect your company against email risks

2007-11-02 23:30:15 by Administrator in Email security & compliance blog
 
...email risks that companies face. So what can we do to protect ourselves against these risks? Here are 10 things that you should be doing to protect your company 1: Write an email policy . If you do not already have one in place, the first thing you must do is to create an email policy. This is necessary to educate users but also to ensure...
 
Tags: policy, email policy violations, email-policy, email policy rules, rules, email policy, risks, email risks, email
 
 
 
 
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The top six corporate email risks

2007-10-27 19:27:40 by Administrator in Email security & compliance blog
 
...email is a great business tool. Its fast, cheap, universal and easy to deploy. However, companies that make use of email are confronted with a number of risks. So what are the email risks that companies face? Red Earth Software has identified the following top 6 email risks 1 Legal liability ; In most cases the employer is held responsible...
 
Tags: risks, email risks, email, email disclaimer, email communications, companys email system, company network, company, explicit email
 
 
 
 
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Email Hacking Going Commercial - Part Two

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2008-08-08 14:31:54 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...email hacking services are pitched as email password recovery services Hacking as a Service sites seems to be popping out like mushrooms these days, thanks primarily due to the fact that yesterday's script kiddies are today's entrepreneurs trying to even monetize the process of bruteforcing. Here's their pitch Well.. There is nothing...
 
Tags: crack password, crack, crack email password, email password, password, original password, current password, password retrieval, email
 
 
 
 
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Errant email exposed Department of Consumer Affairs personal information

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2008-06-24 17:51:19 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...emails them to you The DCA is the main state agency charged with protecting consumers in California Evan] Ironic From 2003 to 2007, it also housed the office charged with educating consumers and businesses about identity theft and fraud Evan] More Ironic One agency whose employees were not on the list is the California Office of Privacy...
 
Tags: information, email, volunteer information lost, wrong email address, email address, information security, adequately protect information, credit cards, credit
 
 
 
 
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Some Yahoo! employees exposed through mistaken email

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2007-12-12 15:11:31 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...emailed a file containing personal information pertaining to Yahoo! employee stock purchase plan participants to the wrong company Reference URL The State of New Hampshire Attorney General breach notification Report Credit The New Hampshire State Attorney Response From the State of New Hampshire official breach notification and letter sent...
 
Tags: fidelity investments, fidelity, fidelity inadvertently, fidelity investments client, email, fidelity investments inadvertently, yahoo, administrator, email administrator
 
 
 
 
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Companies Admit To Reading Email

2008-05-23 14:40:05 by Dave Lewis in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
 
...email. And let me tell you, most non-spam email (try 90%) is trivial crap From Tech Herald So who reads your email at the office? Apparently more people than you think. Forty-four percent of the companies responding to the study said that they investigated an email leak of confidential information in the past year. Forty-one percent reported...
 
Tags: email, outbound email, email leak, employee email, people glance, people, non-spam email, access personal accounts, personal
 
 
 
 
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Email Hacking Going Commercial

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2008-07-24 02:04:48 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...email hacking as a service offering is the direct result of the public release of a DIY hacking kit consisting of each and every publicly known vulnerability for a variety of web based email service providers , with the idea to make it easier for someone to execute their attacks more efficiently. Outsource the hacking of someone's email, and...
 
Tags: email, confirmation email, methods, multiple payment methods, actual email, payment, email account, mailbox, target mailbox
 
 
 
 
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Automatic Email Harvesting 2.0

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2008-08-26 08:01:51 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...email harvesting matured into user names harvesting in a true Web 2.0 style with the recently uncovered harvested IM screen names , and Youtube user lists for spammers, phishers and malware authors to take advantage of, someone has filled in the gap that's been around as long as email harvesting has been a daily routine for spammers - dealing...
 
Tags: email, email addresses, valid email addresses, spam filters, spam, huge email databases, anti spam filters, mail spacegmail spacecom, mail
 
 
 
 
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Secure Email from Voltage

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2008-04-01 17:39:00 by Random InfoSec Guy in Security Coin
...email communication. It is supposed to have incorporated strong anti-phishing technology within it. Could very well be, but there is a huge problem with the whole concept. You see, the way it is supposed to work is 1. I type an email - and then choose to encrypt via voltage and send 2. Receiver gets an email with my email-address in the...
 
Tags: email, voltage, email-address, email communication, voltage offers, html attachment, attachment, click, secure
 
 
 
 
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Simulating Email in .NET

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2008-08-01 13:59:01 by keith-brown in Security Briefs