Tag: Bank of America

How can Spammers and Hackers Send Forged Email?

February 5, 2015

Everyone has seen spam messages arrive with a “From” address that is your own address, a colleague’s, a friends, or that of some company that you work with or use. These From addresses are forged to help the messages (a) get by your spam filters, and (b) get by your “eyeball filters”. But how are […]

Enforcing Email Security with TLS when Communicating with Banks

November 3, 2008

LuxSci has had many requests from clients who have to communicate with various bank and other security-conscious organizations that LuxSci “enforce the encryption of email when sent to those organizations email servers via TLS”. This is such a common request, that I wanted to explain what it means, why it is good, how LuxSci does this by default, and the extra step LuxSci can take to lock down things even more for you.