I got an email today from a Yahoo subscriber that had no subject and contained only a link to a website. The website claims to sell pharma products, but looking more deeply into the page, appeared to try to do a lot more. There was a lot of JavaScript getting loaded and it wasn't clear what it was about to do.
At some point, the password for the sender's Yahoo account was compromised. Although the horse is out of the barn, it's still worth securing the building.
Seveny five percent of all users use the same password for email and social network sites, according to a story in Security Week magazine, citing a study by Bit Defender. Want to bet a good number also use the same password for their bank accounts, credit cards, Starbucks card, and every other web site?
Mozilla Thunderbird is my day in, day out favorite email client. When most people think about email, they think Outlook. Outlook is a great program, but it's very expensive. Unless you need to connect to an Exchange server, you can do better with the free Thunderbird.
Google-hosted mail accounts are now fully accessible via Exchange Active Synch (EAS). This means that Google-hosted email users (e.g., gmail.com and sterndata.com) now have push email enabled for the iPhone. All that's required is setting up the account as a Microsoft Exchange account rather than Gmail. Click read more to see how.
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