http://www.brandmailsolutions.com/about/blogs.php Copyright 2008 Brandmail Solutions Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:50:06 en http://www.brandmailsolutions.com/about/blog/b090108.php Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:50:06 Graham Lacey http://www.brandmailsolutions.com/about/blog/b090108.php It’s heating up in US politics with the Democratic National Convention come and gone and the Republican National Convention kicking off today. Who will it be? Obama? McCain? Barr? Nader? http://www.brandmailsolutions.com/about/blog/b082508.php Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:14:00 Graham Lacey http://www.brandmailsolutions.com/about/blog/b082508.php So if I were a retailer and a couple of guys in uniforms with ID badges and a little toolkit turned up and told me they were servicing my PIN card device, I’d probably believe them. http://www.brandmailsolutions.com/about/blog/b081808.php Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:23:03 Graham Lacey http://www.brandmailsolutions.com/about/blog/b081808.php Trend Micro are warning that spam emails alerting computer users about the credit crunch are already circulating. Inevitably the infamous Storm botnet is responsible for these in a trend that is as tiresome as it is threatening. http://www.brandmailsolutions.com/about/blog/b081108.php Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:27:19 Graham Lacey http://www.brandmailsolutions.com/about/blog/b081108.php The Financial Times reports on British hacker Gary McKinnon is to again appeal his extradition to the US. I reported on McKinnon - who infiltrated a US military network seven years ago - at the end of June. http://www.brandmailsolutions.com/about/blog/b080408.php Mon, 4 Aug 2008 11:44:42 Graham Lacey http://www.brandmailsolutions.com/about/blog/b080408.php IBM’s X-Force security division may not have the raw fury of Wolverine or the magnetism of, erm, Magneto, but they proved they are a force to be reckoned with as they unleashed the results of their latest cyber-threat survey. http://www.brandmailsolutions.com/about/blog/b072808.php Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:12:40 Graham Lacey http://www.brandmailsolutions.com/about/blog/b072808.php In a surprising piece of news it seems that the iPhone 3G - Apple's impressive-looking but feature-lacking device – is vulnerable to phishing attacks. I know, I know. Who'd have thought it? http://www.brandmailsolutions.com/about/blog/b072108.php Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:06:11 Graham Lacey http://www.brandmailsolutions.com/about/blog/b072108.php Are you the sort of person who adds a cartoon character’s email address to your chat program because it appeared on TV? http://www.brandmailsolutions.com/about/blog/b071408.php Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:21:25 Graham Lacey http://www.brandmailsolutions.com/about/blog/b071408.php Hot on the heels of the detection of hackers Gary McKinnon, Danielle Duann and Jon Paul Oson comes news that former HSBC worker Jagmeet Channa has been jailed for nine years for trying to steal $141m from the bank. http://www.brandmailsolutions.com/about/blog/b070708.php Mon, 7 Jul 2008 10:32:38 Graham Lacey http://www.brandmailsolutions.com/about/blog/b070708.php Anti-virus software company, McAfee, offered free PCs to 50 volunteers across 10 countries who agreed to answer all the spam messages they received in a sort of electronic masochistic exercise. http://www.brandmailsolutions.com/about/blog/b063008.php Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:03:00 Graham Lacey http://www.brandmailsolutions.com/about/blog/b063008.php We talked about botnets before when we reported on how rampant the Srizbi botnet had become. Now The Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) has released a set of guidelines developed by its members to combat the threat of botnets and spam. http://www.brandmailsolutions.com/about/blog/b062308.php Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:03:07 Graham Lacey http://www.brandmailsolutions.com/about/blog/b062308.php In the week that MySpace released their new overhauled website - i.e. they shifted some boxes around to make room for their advertisers – they were cleaning up in court again. http://www.brandmailsolutions.com/about/blog/b061608.php Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:29:42 Graham Lacey http://www.brandmailsolutions.com/about/blog/b061608.php The global nature of phishing scams becomes apparent when you read about how British scammers turned their attention to the fairly remote island of New Zealand in the Southern Ocean nearly 20,000km away. http://www.brandmailsolutions.com/about/blog/b060908.php Mon, 9 Jun 2008 10:03:32 Graham Lacey http://www.brandmailsolutions.com/about/blog/b060908.php MessageLabs disappointed the eternally hopeful amongst us by announcing that spam levels are back at highs not seen in over a year. Spam mail accounted for 76.8% of all email in May 2008. http://www.brandmailsolutions.com/about/blog/b060208.php Mon, 2 Jun 2008 10:05:52 Graham Lacey http://www.brandmailsolutions.com/about/blog/b060208.php If you thought it’s only the uninitiated who falls for phishing scams, think again. LinkedIn, a networking site for intellectuals who want to do more mature stuff than listen to 50 Cent and upload photos of themselves binge-drinking, is now a target for phishers. http://www.brandmailsolutions.com/about/blog/b052608.php Thu, 27 May 2008 10:08:00 Graham Lacey http://www.brandmailsolutions.com/about/blog/b052608.php The tiresome chase of Yahoo! by Microsoft is almost as tiresome as the fact that my word processor automatically capitalises the letter that immediately follows “Yahoo!”. Despite selling zillions of Xbox consoles and, um, Zune music players, Microsoft still lags way behind in the online advertising market. http://www.brandmailsolutions.com/about/blog/b051908.php Mon, 19 May 2008 11:05:07 Graham Lacey http://www.brandmailsolutions.com/about/blog/b051908.php Pressure on at Google as the brilliantly-acronymed Information Security Research Team (InSeRT) discovered a flaw in Google's previously highly-regarded spam and phishing filter. http://www.brandmailsolutions.com/about/blog/b051208.php Mon, 12 May 2008 09:27:54 Graham Lacey http://www.brandmailsolutions.com/about/blog/b051208.php How long before the US adopts its 51 st State: Spam, capital city, Phishville. A State which is over run by zombies, employing many address harvesters in local industry and administered by Mayor F Raud. http://www.brandmailsolutions.com/about/blog/b050808.php Thur, 8 May 2008 11:11:41 Graham Lacey http://www.brandmailsolutions.com/about/blog/b050808.php I mentioned last week how text message spam was becoming more than a nuisance for mobile phone users. Well, a new survey shows that two-thirds of UK users have been the victims of mobile spam and phishing attacks. http://www.brandmailsolutions.com/about/blog/b043008.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 9:37:19 Graham Lacey http://www.brandmailsolutions.com/about/blog/b043008.php No one is impacted by phishing more so than the financial sector. Apacs, the UK payment association, have revealed that reported attacks on UK consumers have more than doubled in the first quarter of the year at more than 10,000. http://www.brandmailsolutions.com/about/blog/b042108.php Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:03:21 Seth Redmore http://www.brandmailsolutions.com/about/blog/b042108.php The first article of note comes from MediaPost's Email Insider. This article discusses the various techniques that senders use to bring across their branding in the subject line. This is particularly timely as Brandmail Solutions is going to be at the Email Insider Summit down in Florida next month. We hope to see some of y'all there. http://www.brandmailsolutions.com/about/blog/b040808.php Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:41:10 Seth Redmore http://www.brandmailsolutions.com/about/blog/b040808.php Our first article brings us the subject of this week’s blog: War. The concept is one that comes up pretty often in the rhetoric of email security companies. “Spam ‘cold war’ set to continue.” It’s an interesting concept. Are we actually fighting a war? http://www.brandmailsolutions.com/about/blog/b033108.php Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:25:01 Seth Redmore http://www.brandmailsolutions.com/about/blog/b033108.php TechNewsWorld brings us our first article, which I'm choosing because it has an awesome headline: “Teach a Man to Phish and He’ll Feed on Fools for a Lifetime”. I bet that headline had it spelled as “Phools” before it went to editing. http://www.brandmailsolutions.com/about/blog/b032408.php Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:58:01 Seth Redmore http://www.brandmailsolutions.com/about/blog/b032408.php Welcome to the first Brandmail Solutions "Last Week in the News" blog post. Each Monday, we'll discuss a few notable articles from the past week. These articles will touch on topics relevant to the email sender and ISP communities. Some topics of note will be phishing and spamming, email authentication, branding, online advertising, email statistics, and others.