social engineering

9 out of 10 email messages sent contain spam

Published on 25 June, 2009 - 22:09 by Terranova phishing, social engineering, spam, viruses, News
I was digging through some blogs recently and happened upon an interesting post on the TechRepublic IT Security blog site tited:  Spam:  Previous record toppled. http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=1769 The opening line held my attention....Incredibly, out of every 10 e-mail messages sent nine contain spam and that’s a new record. Hard to actually believe it, isn't it?  The article goes on to detail which countries it comes from and the time of day that spam email is most prevalent....

To tweet or not to tweet

Published on 4 June, 2009 - 22:47 by Terranova security, Security Awareness, social engineering, social media, News
For anyone out there experimenting with Twitter, you are probably aware that with so few characters to use to tweet, you eventually need to look at using a Short URL service to direct your followers to what you want them to read or see.These Short URL services are great and guess what... they are free!  This seems great until you start thinking about potential security risks.  For companies with employees that are sneaking in a few tweets a day at work, those security issues could become a big...