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The
Email Threat Info Center is a collection of relevant articles, industry
links, best-practices, and everyday wisdom. Information designed to improve
your ability to meet and exceed the ever changing messaging security demands
of your business.
Glossary >
A glossary of terms used when talking about email threats. |
Spam
Resources |
Real-time
Black Lists
Spamhaus.org provides one type of RBL known as a Known Spammers
List. |
Fraud
Resources |
The
Federal Trade Commission
The article "How Not to Get Hooked by a 'Phishing' Scam" provides a quick
over view on the topic. |
The
Fraud Information Center
This site provides information on how a business can combat all types of
fraudulent activities. |
Internet
ScamBusters
Information about Internet fraud including reports, news, alerts
and more. |
Anti-Phishing
Working Group
An industry association focused on eliminating the identity theft and fraud
that result from the growing problem of phishing and email spoofing. |
U.S.
Secret Service
This sites offers information regarding Identity theft, credit card theft,
counterfeiting, false identification and more. |
Virus
Resources |
Network
Associates - Virus Information Library
Get current information on newly discovered viruses. |
About.com:
Anti-Virus
Current overview information about viruses and other malware
currently in play. |
V
Myths.com
This site is dedicated to presenting the truth about computer
security hysteria. Among the topics they cover are computer virus myths
and hoaxes. |
The
WildList
A non-profit site dedicated to identifying and tracking the
spread of computer viruses in the wild. |
Attack
Resources |
The
Sans Top 20 Vulnerabilities
This list is broader than just email threats covering computer
system threats of all types. |
US-CERT
The national cyber alert system, a partnership of CERT and the the Department
of Homeland Security. Technical and non-technical updates are available. |
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Email Safety Tips:
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Know how your on-line account information is updated. Do
you usually receive an email with a link that takes
you to the vendors site? Or do you receive an email
telling to go to the vendors site and log in as your
normally do? It’s a subtle but important
difference with the latter being much safer. |
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To be really safe, never follow a link in an email
to update account information. |
| 3. |
Be wary of messages telling you that access to your
account is expiring or about to be denied along with
instructions that you have to update your information
right now. If you have any questions at all contact
your vendor through their normal support channels. |
| 4. |
Do not download software an email tells you is to
protect your computer, even if it appears to come from
Microsoft. Microsoft, along with most other vendors
will let you download patches and updates directly
from their web site. |
| 5. |
If you believe an update may be required, type the
site URL directly into your browser and log into your
account from there. If you want to be extra careful
open a new browser and type in the URL there. |
| 6. |
Do not open email attachments that you are not expecting,
even if the attachment appears to be from a friend. |
| 7. |
If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
Emails that promise you large amounts of money are
most likely scams. |
| 8. |
Use MailFrontier’s message security solution
and be protected from spam, fraud, virus attacks. |
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