Last week, my parents were in town and they were staying at my place.  I was commenting to them that my wife and her mother get along okay, but only because they are not living under the same roof.  Her mother has a habit of giving her plenty...

MAAWG recently released a document on email appending, criticizing the practice and describing it as abusive.  But what is email appending?  From the document: “Email appending” is also known as “e-appending” or “e-pending.”  As used in...

Over the weekend, I read an articled entitled Superior Alternatives to Crappy Windows Software .  This is not to suggest that Windows is crappy, but that there are applications that run on Windows that are lousy.  There are a lot of points that...

From time to time, I get customer requests for assistance on stopping phishing messages that spoof the sender’s own organization.  For example, I might get mail from cliff @ microsoft.com, sending mail to myself.  As a user, I might be tricked...

The other day, Swiss banking giant UBS said on Thursday that it was anticipating a loss of $2 billion in the third quarter due to losses by a rogue trader.  From the Associated Press : LONDON (AP) -- One man armed with only a computer terminal humbled...

I found this 18 minute video on Ted today.  Misha Glenny takes a look at hackers, who they are, and what we can do to mitigate their threat (hire them!).

Earlier this week, Tiobe Software released a report showing its Tiobe index : The TIOBE Programming Community index is an indicator of the popularity of programming languages. The index is updated once a month. The ratings are based on the number of skilled...

Like many other people, I am not a fan of challenge/response filters.  If I ever get an email that I send to someone and receive back a challenge to take some action (click a link, hit reply with the subject) to add myself to their whitelist to communicate...

I decided to take a look at the total amount of outbound spam incidents that we have discovered over the past year.  We have multiple layers of incidents: We have thresholds for the amount of mail users can send where the content is marked as spam...

This post will contain some generic information about whitelisting, but also some specific information that pertains to our service (Forefront Online).  But the process would be similar for any email server. Over the past couple of weeks, I have...

An article on Geekwire today reports on Internet browser usage amongst the various population.  Internet Explorer continues to with 55%, Firefox is second with 22.5%, Chrome is third with 15% with others picking up about 5%.  The overall trend...

Over the past few years, I have written numerous blog posts about controlling outbound spam.  Here’s a summary of what we do: We look for mailers who send high volumes of mail that are marked as spam. We look for mailers who send sudden bursts of...