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Pump-and-dump MP3 email spam warning
News C is for CMA An outbreak of pump-and-dump email spam this week is using bandwidth-sapping MP3 voice file attachments to promote certain stocks. Email security company Email Systems said it detected a global outbreak of MP3 spam from late evening on... [19 Oct 2007]
Online casinos 'failing customers'
News C is for CMA Out of the 100 UK online gambling sites contacted by customer services company Talisma, only 60 per cent replied to email enquiries and 16 per cent of calls went unanswered. Four-fifths of websites had separate systems supporting... [27 Nov 2006]
Mac virus threat still "insignificant"
News C is for CMA The Mac maker has plugged security flaws that could have resulted in OS X customers being "owned" by basic actions such as visiting a malicious website, watching a video file or opening an email attachment. [12 Jul 2007]
Google launches online security tools
News C is for CMA Google has launched a range of web-based security applications for email filtering, encryption and archiving. The tech works with any email system, including Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange and Novell Groupwise. [05 Feb 2008]
Who's been reading your emails?
News C is for CMA Email might seem like a private conversation - but the reality is if you are sending messages from a work email account there are a number of people inside your organisation, and potentially many more outside, that are legally entitled... [30 Nov 2007]
How to detect data leaks
Comment C is for CMA As well as preventing unwanted email from clogging up users' inboxes, anti-spam software can also monitor outgoing email and alert users to, or block, the breach of the security policy. Ever-increasing email attachment file sizes and... [19 Mar 2008]
Google Apps hosts one big team talk over the web
News C is for CMA Google Apps Team Edition is a free service that lets people within the same email domain collaborate easily with Google Apps, a package that includes Calendar, Docs, Talk and Start Page. And a new domain can be acquired through the... [07 Feb 2008]
Data theft scam targets CEOs
News C is for CMA Senior execs such as CIOs and CEOs are being singled out by increasingly sophisticated email attacks which one expert predicts could drive a wave of corporate data theft. While most email users are familiar with high levels of very... [02 Jul 2007]
Trojan targets companies' top brass
News C is for CMA The email, which contained no body text, included a dot-SCR screen saver dummy file within an executable RTF file, the spokeman said. The C-level nature of the targets clearly indicates that the attackers are after information, said... [26 Sep 2007]
PayPal wages war on phishing
News C is for CMA But Barrett said other measures are needed such as email certification. PayPal has brought in a number of tech solutions including digital email signatures - something that the company now does with 100 per cent of its outbound emails. [11 Apr 2008]
How the good guys fight the security arms race
News C is for CMA C is for CMA We will come in and monitor email traffic for a few days to monitor what data is actually exiting a corporation, looking for, say, financial data, and the results are almost always horrifying. [15 Feb 2008]
Security threat: One web page infected every five seconds
News C is for CMA Threats circulated via email, on the other hand, appeared to have cooled off during the first quarter of this year. According to Sophos, only one in 2,500 email messages contained malware - 40 per cent fewer than 2007, where one in 909... [24 Apr 2008]
Phishers snare Salesforce.com data
News C is for CMA The information in the contact list included individuals' names, company names, email addresses, telephone numbers of Salesforce.com customers and "related administrative data belonging to Salesforce.com", said Harris. [08 Nov 2007]
Security heading for the cloud
News C is for CMA Cloud-based malware and spam detection in email and instant messaging will grow from 20 per cent of messaging security revenue to 60 per cent over the next five years, according to analysts at Gartner. [17 Jul 2008]
Microsoft warns of ActiveX attack
News C is for CMA An attacker would have to lure a victim, via a link in an email for example, to a specially crafted web page that could exploit the security hole to allow remote code execution. D is for DDoS [08 Jul 2008]
