Here is part one of a nice article about email in general. It is designed to help explain how email works to the CIO, but others who are curious about email and how it works will find it enlightening as well. From the Introduction:
"Helping nontechnical managers calibrate expectations, learn the key issues in e-mail management and identify issues in setting corporate e-mail policies."
This article at SC Magazine highlights some of the latest spammer trends. In short, it points out the logical progression of image based spam to PDF based spam to now Excel based spam.
A few months ago, SpamOnion started a new procedure to improve upon its ability to detect and block email based phishing attacks and various scams. The results have been fantastic. In the past 30 days, we have blocked over 500,000 phishing attacks, scams and image based scams.
According to a report published at Information Week, spam reached a new record high in 2006.
The volume of spam rocketed in December to account for a record 94% of all Internet-sent e-mail during the month, a message security company said Wednesday.