Posts Tagged ‘Spam Protection’
by FireHost Evangelist on July 21st, 2009
There are four million British identities for sale according to a weekend story from the UK’s Times Online. The compromised data contains highly sensitive, personal financial information like credit card details, bank account numbers, and PIN’s, and it’s all available to the highest bidder.
You may be wondering how such a large bounty of confidential information was collected, and what organization is responsible for the massive data breach. The startling answer is that no one is directly responsible for the leak; it appears everyday email users like you divulged their digits to these hackers.
“Most of the personal data has been gathered as a result of phishing. Unsuspecting victims hand over the information by e-mail to people posing as reputable sources such as banks or online stores. Other data has been stolen after criminals infect a person’s personal computer with viruses and then raid it for information,” the story states.
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Tags: cybercrime, Hosted Exchange, Identity Theft, Phishing, Spam Protection
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by FireHost Evangelist on July 7th, 2009
Have you ever wondered what hackers really stand to gain by stealing your confidential information? This article published by FoxNews.com helps shed some light on the economy of private information.
While the national economy suffers, the one run by identity thieves in the dark corners of the Internet isn’t hurting. In fact, demand and prices for stolen credit cards, Social Security numbers and other private information remain stable. The supply of confidential data is steady too, thanks to the way the recession has inspired new scams targeting people who are worried about work and their finances.
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Tags: Phishing, Secure Web Hosting, Spam Protection
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by FireHost Evangelist on March 27th, 2009
How many times has an important client or co worker asked “Did you get my email?“, and how many times has your answer been, “No. I did not receive it! Could you please resend?”
FireHost wins and retains hosted email clients because we do a very effective job of scanning all incoming email for viruses and spam, then preventing any infectious or offensive messages from reaching your inbox. Comparing our hosted email service to competitors, we should be satisfied knowing that we provide unrivaled anti-spam and virus protection, but we’re not. We’ve taken hosted email one step further and built a better email “mousetrap”.
Effective today, every FireHost email customer’s service has been upgraded to our shiny, new, redundant email environment. <Non-technical readers should skip to paragraph 4. The bullets below will really only be interesting to “geeks”.>
- FireHost configures your domain with our Dallas facility as the primary mail exchange (MX) record, and we’ve made a secondary, backup MX record for your email in our Scottsdale, AZ data center.
- Should the Dallas data center become unavailable for any reason, your incoming and outgoing email will be routed to and queued in the Scottsdale facility until Dallas comes back online.
- At that point, all queued email is delivered to you or your recipient’s inbox.
We’ve taken this extra step to ensure you never miss a message because we recognize that missing an important email is more than just annoying and embarrassing. It costs you business! Continuing our commitment to be your secure web hosting provider, FireHost is redefining the standard for hosted email service providers by squelching the potential for losing email due to service outages.
If you have any questions at all about the changes to your current email service, please contact Sales so we may find out more about how to fulfill your email needs.
Tags: Email Backup, Email Hosting, Hosted Exchange, MS Exchange Hosting, Secure Email Providers, Spam Protection
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