Email

No, I’m not talking about that finger; it’ll become obvious in a moment which finger I’m talking about. First, let me ask a few questions:

Is your car parked, empty, in the driveway right now with its engine on?
Is your shower, with no one in it, running?
Is your stove, with nothing cooking on it, turned on?
Is your attic light [...]

I get questions all the time from clients over at Ask the Geek about using a mail client’s message preview feature. Opinions vary, of course, but for this geek, it’s a bad idea. In order to preview a message, it has to be opened or rendered by the HTML engine. Think about how a PC [...]

In their latest phishing scam targeting dentists, a tactic the FBI has labeled “spear phishing,” the fraudsters actually threaten violence.  The potential victim receives an email purportedly from a hit man who has been hired by “a friend” to kill him for $50,000. However, if the victim agrees to pay this “hit man” $80,000, he’ll back [...]

When choosing a new email address (as I suggested in my previous post), be sure to use something that would not be easily guessed. Many spammers use a dictionary attack on domain names in order to try to guess email addresses. This often works, especially if your email address is a common name or word. [...]

Want to stop spam? Dumb question! Sure you do. Everyone except the spammers, that is. But the only really effective way to do it is to keep it from starting in the first place. Impossible? Nope. There IS a way to do it. The catch is you have to start with a clean slate.
First, set [...]