Posts Tagged ‘security’
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
On January 30th, 2010, LuxSci will be releasing a set of software updates that add new security features and enhance existing security features. Additionally, LuxSci is introducing a new Business Associate Agreement for HIPAA customers — one that complies with the new HITECH provisions of HIPAA. These changes will impact some existing and future customers, as described in this notice.
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Tags: hipaa, hitech, mysql, security, sftp, ssl Posted in New Feature Announcements
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Friday, October 2nd, 2009
The Credit Card Industry imposes a set of security standards knows as PCI/DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard). The purpose of this standard is to ensure that any company accepting credit cards from consumers takes all appropriate security measures to ensure that this information is protected from hackers and information leakage.
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Tags: credit card, pci, PCI/DSS, security Posted in LuxSci Insider
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Friday, June 19th, 2009
To address the request of many clients, LuxSci has simplified the process of picking up SecureLine Escrow encrypted email messages. This change makes message pickup faster and easier and improves the usability of the SecureLine service overall.
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Tags: escrow, message, password, secureline, security Posted in New Feature Announcements
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Friday, May 22nd, 2009
It used to be that to send an email, you had very few choices and even less control over what happened once the message was sent, how many emails you could send, or how you connected to the Internet to send email. Well, times have changed, the Internet has evolved, users are more savvy, and expectations are much higher.
Today, LuxSci offers five different ways to send outbound email, each geared to particular uses and needs. In this article, we will describe each method, examine the pros and cons, and end with a feature chart. Our goal is to make your outbound email shopping experience straightforward and to provide you with an email service appropriate for your needs.
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Tags: anonymous, authentication, bulk mailing, disclaimers, location, message, outbound email, ports, recipients, security, sending email, size, smarthost, smtp, ssl, taglines, tls Posted in Business Solutions, LuxSci Library: The Technical Side of Email
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Thursday, May 14th, 2009
LuxSci supports OpenID as a mechanism for logging into its web-based user interface. OpenID allows both a single signon for multiple web sites (so you do not have to remember as many usernames and passwords); it can also enhance the security of your account.
As with most web sites that support OpenID access, LuxSci also permits users to login with their usual username and password — even if OpenID use is enabled. This is usually a good thing, as it allows users to login if, for some reason, their OpenID is not working.
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Tags: access, login, openid, restrict, security Posted in New Feature Announcements
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Saturday, March 14th, 2009
You thought email was a simple concept, but you are at once confronted with a plethora of acronyms and jargon like POP, IMAP, WebMail, Aliases, Forwards, SMTP, IMAP, POP, Quota, SPAM, TLS, SSL, Archival, and more! This article describes the ins and outs of email, explains these terms, and helps you figure out what services and features you need from your personal or business email service provider.
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Tags: autoresponder, catch-all alias, email, email alias, email archival, email clients, email provider, imap, imaps, Internet Mail Access Protocol, personality, pop, pop3, pops, Post Office Protocol, private labeling, secure imap, secure pop, secure SMTP, security, Simple Mail Transport Protocol, smtp, smtp authentication, SMTP relaying, smtp server, spam, ssl, tls, web-based email, webmail Posted in AAA Featured Articles, LuxSci Library: The Technical Side of Email, TechNotes
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Friday, February 27th, 2009
If you are allowing Mozilla FireFox or Thunderbird to remember passwords to web sites and/or email accounts in their Password Manager tool, you should know that these passwords are all stored in a plain text file (base64 encoded) on your computer’s disk drive. This file is accessible to anyone with administrative access to your computer. If you have any concerns about the possibility of other people accessing your computer and this gaining easy access to copies of the passwords that you are using, you really need to employ the “Master Password” feature of these programs.
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Tags: 3des, encryption, fips, fips 140-1, firefox, firemaster, master password, mozilla, password, password manager, security, strong password, thunderbird, webaides Posted in LuxSci Library: Email Programs and Devices, TechNotes
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Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
LuxSci is a small and efficiently run company that is focused on and specializes in premium email services. While we do not have “our own” data centers like some of the “big boys”; we utilize the services of one of the most respected and reliable managed server providers around — Rackspace. We have been with Rackspace for 8 years. Prior to that we tried out a few of the cheaper providers and found that the support and/or the quality of the hardware and network was not up to our standards. Rackspace is like an extension of our IT department, helping us to provide the most reliable and redundant services available.
One of our long time clients has remarked that we have a “formula for success” that we shouldn’t change. We attribute this to the combination of our software, our people, and our infrastructure. In this article, we’ll discuss how LuxSci utilizes Rackspace and how our software and support solutions are complemented and enhanced by Rackspace’s reliability, security, and support.
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Tags: air, bandwidth, biometrics, cissp, co-location, dedicated, fanatical support, fire, generators, hvac, ids, infrastructure, iso17799, network, pci security, performance, rackers, rackspace, sas70, sas70 type II, security, support, ups, uptime Posted in LuxSci Insider, LuxSci Library: Insider Insight
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Thursday, February 19th, 2009
It’s the classic problem of having “too many keys”. You have accounts on many different web sites. Some are small and relatively insignificant, from a security point of view, like blogs or shopping sites. Some are large and sensitive, like banking and PayPal accounts. Since unified login mechanisms like OpenID are not yet pervasive, you must remember the usernames and passwords for every single site. This is a truly daunting task.
Ideally, you would like to use passwords that are “strong” (i.e. very good, not easily guessable) and different for every site. However, how can you remember each secure and unique password without resorting to a “cheat sheet”?
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Tags: attack, change password, cheat sheet, crack, dictionary attack, encrypted, guess, hacker, key logger, obama, openid, password, remember password, secure, security, ssl, strong password, twitter, username, webaides Posted in LuxSci Library: Security and Privacy, TechNotes
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Friday, February 13th, 2009
Everyone always harps on the necessity of privacy when discussing health care, government, and banking communications. It is surprising how little attention is paid to email security with regards to accounting and tax preparation. There is a real danger of identity theft, unintended information disclosure, as well as invasion of privacy when using tax preparation services or organizations that do not use secure email. Why is this?
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Tags: accountant, accounting, documents, email, encrypted, identity theft, password recovery, password-protected file, private labeled, quickbooks, secure email, secureline, security, social security number, tax, tax prep, tax returns Posted in Business Solutions, LuxSci Library: Security and Privacy
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