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Tag: email

  • Researchers find email used in RSA hack

    Email with malicious attachment uploaded to online scanning service Researchers at F-Secure have managed to obtain the file used in the targeted attack against security vendor RSA back in March. At the time, RSA was admirably open about the attack and explained that one of its employees had received a targeted email containing a malicious…

  • Hotmail beefs up security with stricter password policy

    ‘My friend has been spammed’ button also welcomed by experts. Microsoft ‘s free webmail service Hotmail has introduced some new features which should make it less likely for its users’ accounts to be hacked, and which also enable users to tell the company when a friend’s account has been hacked. One of the new features…

  • ‘Job application’ contains malicious attachment

    $150,000 lost via banking trojan. An unidentified US company has learned the hard way that email attachments – even to those that appear to be solicited – may contain malware. The company in question had posted a job advertisement on an employment website, to which it received a response with what appeared to be a…

  • ARF published as IETF standard

    Abuse report format helps auto-handling of email complaints ARF (Abuse Reporting Format) has been approved by the IETF as an Internet standard. ARF is a format used to send complaints about email – for instance the report generated when a user clicks a ‘this is spam’ button in their email agent. A draft version of…