Sentinare Email Security NewsDelivering the most complete and powerful suite of email security solutions.Pentagon email hacked- June 27, 2007 More proof that the public SMTP (email) interface is the most difficult internet service to protect. Too often organizations leave email security to people or groups assigned to other tasks. Email servers accept connections 24 hours a day from anywhere in the world and accept unspecified types of data, which makes email service inherentley dangerous. http:australianit.news.com.austory0,24897,21948818-15306,00.htmlhttp://www.sentinare.com/email_news.php#20 New email-based security breach revealed at Los Alamos National Laboratory- June 18, 2007 A LANL contractor made the mistake of emailing classified information from a non-secured email network. This is an example of not implementing or enforcing an effective organizational email policy. http:www.lamonitor.comarticles20070615headline_newsnews01.txthttp://www.sentinare.com/email_news.php#21 FBI: Over 1 Million Potential Victims of Botnet Cyber Crime- June 14, 2007 The FBI is probably underestimating here with their 1 million figure. Whether they are serious and capable of doing anything about it remains to be proven. You may never know if you are a victim of a botnet, as most of this software runs undetected on "owned" machines. The best thing to do is to keep your antivirus updated, keep your software updates up to date, don't surf to sketchy web-sites, and use Sentinare PostGuard for email filtering. ...http://www.sentinare.com/email_news.php#22 Four deadly security sins (in IT security)- June 14, 2007 1: Fixed passwords. 2: Neglecting inbound threats from e-mail, the Web and instant messaging. 3: Forgetting that data traffic is two-way. 4: Not encrypting data. Since we stop the inbound spam and viruses from hitting your mail servers and mailboxes, and provide for strong encryption on all protocols, we help our customers to check off 2 and 4 of this list. http:www.zdnetasia.comnewssecurity0,39044215,62020417,00.htmhttp://www.sentinare.com/email_news.php#23 Public Anti-spam sites weather DDoS assault- June 14, 2007 Prominent anti-spam services came under a sustained denial of service attack late last week. The assault targeted Spamhaus, Spam URI Realtime Blocklists (SURBL), and Realtime URI Blacklist (URIBL). Sentinare uses some of the affected lists, but the filtering technology we use is redundant in that it does not rely completely on any one list or any one method to score spam. As such, Sentinare is the most reliable email filtering technology available today. .http://www.sentinare.com/email_news.php#24 Phony BBB email dupes more than 1,400 execs- June 6, 2007 A provider of online security services has uncovered a highly sophisticated phishing scheme that has already duped at least 1,400 US executives. This is another example of why a multi-layered approach is necessary today. The best protection is to have an off-site SMTP proxy like Sentinare PostGuard as well as desktop antivirus tools. http:www.theregister.co.uk20070530bbb_spear_phishinghttp://www.sentinare.com/email_news.php#25 Warning of webmail wi-fi hijack- June 4, 2007 Using public wi-fi hotspots has got much riskier as security experts unveil tools that nab login data over the air. Sentinare uses the highest grade encryption possible and encrypts ALL the mail data. Your password and your mail content are secure. With Sentinare, you are safe using mobile devices and unsecured public networks. http:news.bbc.co.uk2hitechnology6929258.stmhttp://www.sentinare.com/email_news.php#19 IETF approves new weapon to fight spam, phish- June 4, 2007 This new protocol is the better of the few competing new protocols to prevent forgery. According to Eric Allman, "I think primarily this will be attacking phishing for now. ID fraud is incidental to spam, but it's fundamental to phishing." Though implementation is more complex and costly than other protocols like SPF, this is the better one and holds much promise. Right now, it is a trivial exercise to forge a mail from any "FROM" address. Domainkeys will prevent email sender forgery. .http://www.sentinare.com/email_news.php#26 |