Archive for April, 2010

Dangers Of The Internet

Every year a significant number of people become victims of various Internet crimes. According to a report published by the Internet Crime Complaint Center, in 2006 there were 200,481 complaints processed on behalf of the complainants. This number included the various crime types, such as auction fraud, non-delivery, and credit/debit card fraud, as well as [...]

SPAM – History and Prevalence

The term Spam is thought to be derived from a Monte Python skit. But the fact that Spam makes up over 80 percent of emails sent isn’t that funny!
A Monte Python sketch performed in 1970 references the British rationing during World War II. SPAM was one of the only meat products that was [...]

Image Spam And How To Fight It

Spam attacks where the text is replaced with images aimed at lightly protected email systems are growing in popularity. With the variety of anti-spam filters that analyze the message content to weed out unsolicited emails, spammers continue to increasingly adopt image spam. Businesses, organizations and everyday computer users might have noted an increase of image-based [...]

Exchange Spam Blocker

Spam is a reality of the Internet, but not all users suffer from it at the same extent. It is definitely hard for businesses to distinguish valuable messages from unsolicited emails. For business and personal assistance alike, software companies have created special anti-spam programs meant to block the access of unsolicited mail to inbox in [...]

Reduce Risk With Internet Filtering For Business

The internet is a powerful tool for any business but with it comes with some security issues. The need for company’s to both control and monitor internet usage is just a fact of doing business on the internet. You can reduce risk with internet filtering for business.
Statistics show that as much as 40% of [...]