During 2024, many of the large email service providers will be introducing new security standards to email to cut down on spam email, and eliminating attacks where someone purports to be someone else in order to scam money from them. This is going to hinge around some new technologies that many outside the industry may… Read More »
How can you be sure that the email has come from who it purports to represent? And how do you stop a received email from being changed? Well read on… In searching the Internet, there are many tutorials on how to setup your chosen email software client for digital certificates, but, they usually don’t go… Read More »
We have had a considerable number of complaints of spam emails containing PDF attachments coming from the Hotmail and AOL email networks. Normally, PDF attachments are allowed straight through, but, due to the high volume of complaints, we have removed PDF attachments from the accepted file list so that it has to be processed like… Read More »
Well the season of silly emails has already started early this year. Please remember, don’t open attachments on joke emails, this is one way a computer pandemic starts!
We have seen a recent increase in the number of spam emails, both phishing attacks and also marketing emails. We are successfully blocking both by our excellent and aggressive network spam email filter. The main problem is that business are being forced to resort to other forms of marketing, and sending unsolicited emails is a… Read More »
This is a little worrying, 9 million email addresses hacked. Expect an increase in attempted phishing attacks… For more information, please see the BBC website at… https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52722626
Unlike some of our competition, we perform a double virus filter as standard. We not only virus protect your incoming emails, we additionally protect your business by scanning outbound emails from your company LAN thereby stopping your whole domain from being blacklisted should a single PC be infected within your business.
As a precaution, all of our servers have now been successfully patched.
Our network spam filter is very aggressive at blocking links and attachments, the usual way that this viral payload is delivered. Therefore, the risk to Spam Safe Mail users is determined to be low.
We can confirm that the version of TLS/SSL used to transfer mail into and out of Spam Safe Mail does not use the version of OpenSSL that is susceptible to the Heartbleed virus and so no mail servers are compromised.