The big theme from my clients for the past couple of weeks has been pretty consistent. I receive an email from a staff member at one of my clients, with a forwarded email message, and a question – “Is this legit?”. Without fail, the answer is no… the email is not legitimate. It’s another attempt [...]
Clients have been getting a lot of these messages in the past few days:
Dear user of the your_domain_name.com mailing service!
We are informing you that because of the security upgrade of the mailing service your mailbox (you@your_domain_name) settings were changed. In order to apply the new set of settings click on the following link:
(link removed for [...]
I came across a pretty good article this last week, which bears expanding upon at least a little bit. It’s from the Globe And Mail, and goes into a study done this year on computer security, breaches, and their cost and effect on business.
The short version is that these types of breaches can cripple, or [...]
Since Twitter has become mainstream, more and more people use it. Unfortunately that also includes spammers and hackers. And there aren’t many ways to protect yourself from malicious code.
The problem lies with the URL shortening services that are all over the tweets, and by extension over Facebook and My Space to name a few. The [...]
As I mentioned in my last post, the Outlook phishing scam continues to run rampant. There’s a screenshot of what the email looks like after the break, if you’re wondering what I’m talking about.
Questions continue to arrive from clients asking me about this, and whether or not they should be applying these patches. Of course, [...]
So the latest virus/ phishing attempt by spammers and scammers has actually generated a few emails in our direction. People have asked whether or not the email they received is real, and I can understand why.
The email comes in looking like it’s an update for a Microsoft product… there’s a screenshot after the jump. The [...]