You’re already working long hours. Economic pressures are growing, and your team is running on empty. Now you need to mitigate yet another problem. Preventing ransomware attacks and mitigating their extreme financial impacts (an average of $8,500/hour of downtime) is essential. The following best practices can help your IT and healthcare administrators protect your systems.
I just got junk email … from me! It is surprisingly common for users to receive Spam email messages that appear to come from their own address (i.e. “joe@domain.com” gets a Spam email addressed so it appears to be from “joe@domain.com”). We discussed this issue tangentially in a previous posting: Bounce Back & BackScatter Spam […]
The Internet is rife with fake and forged email. Typically these are email messages that appear to be from a friend, relative, business acquaintance, or vendor that ask you to do something. If you trust that the message is really from this person, you are much more likely to take whatever action is requested — […]
“GrayMail” sounds like either some shriveled up husk of an email message, or the undead ghost of messages coming back to haunt me. Both concepts are not far off the mark. Spam is easy to define – mail that you do not want and have never asked to receive. GrayMail is legitimate bulk mail that […]
LuxSci’s outbound email content monitoring service now permits use of Perl regular expressions in the specifications of the content. This provides administrators the ability to match content patterns (like social security numbers, account numbers, etc.), rather than just keywords and phrases.
