The editorial to September's Computers in Business (the ICT supplement with the Sunday Business Post) was a disgrace, as I mentioned at the time. … [Read more...] about Phishing Threats – Sunday Business Post flippant
Spam Filtering
The Art of Spam Filtering – False Positives?
Over a year ago I posted some reflections on email filtering based on our experience as an ISP Justin Mason's latest post reflects on some of the issues that I had hinted at: False Positive ‘Reports’ != FP Measurement As he underlines in one of the comments: The problem is, if you don’t receive the message text, it can be damn hard to figure out if the message you just blocked … [Read more...] about The Art of Spam Filtering – False Positives?
Postgrey + smtp auth
I got postgrey (greylisting for postfix) working without too much difficulty a couple of weeks ago. Unfortunately I managed to screw up smtp-auth in the process. … [Read more...] about Postgrey + smtp auth
AIB Phishing Update
I grabbed a screenshot of the latest AIB phishing attack earlier this morning In most instances phishing sites are taken down by the hosting provider, however in this instance the domain has actually been revoked from the root nameservers. The domain's status has been changed by the ICANN registrar to: status: hold,infringe-3rd-parties which is interesting. Does this … [Read more...] about AIB Phishing Update
AIB Targetted by Phishing Attack
Phishing fraud is not going away. As the fraudsters expand so do their list of targets. The latest one that was reported by Alex French, CEO of Bitbuzz, targets AIB: … [Read more...] about AIB Targetted by Phishing Attack