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Keep Your Information S.A.F.E. with Email Encryption

admin — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 19:40:37 +0000

You already know why you need secure email. Perhaps you're in a sector that's covered by federal email encryption mandates such as health care or finance, maybe you have statewide mandates to protect consumer data, or you recognize the inherent insecurities of email and want to increase your email security in order to protect your [...]

All “clouds” are not the same

admin — Fri, 06 May 2011 19:30:11 +0000

With the recent disruption of some high profile websites on Amazon's EC2 platform (Reddit, Foursquare, and Moby to name a few), some naysayers are pointing to this as a weakness of cloud based services in general, rather than what it really is, simply a single provider having issues with specific services. While Amazon locates servers [...]

New office for Matt – Boxcraft?

phil — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 19:16:21 +0000

Come join us on our Minecraft server: minecraft.greenviewdata.com A few of us here at Greenview Data/SpamStopsHere decided that Matt in our support team needed a new office for April fools day. Since he enjoys playing Minecraft so much, why not make him a block cave for an office? First step was to build a mockup [...]

Behind the Scenes: Blocking new spam campaigns

Dylan — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:51:19 +0000

Here's a little peek behind the scenes into the details of spam blocking. Last week, I tweeted about a rash of new spam emails we were seeing. There was nothing special about these emails: just the usual prescription pill gibberish. I particularly enjoyed these lines: "ppikllls for heailth turkey sandwich toward secretly gratifying curse over blotched" [...]

Security Tradeoffs

Dylan — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:18:53 +0000

Bruce Schneier wrote an excellent summary the other day about the trend in Corporate IT to relax security standards in favor of convenience and flexibility when it comes to new consumer technology. He points out that cloud computing is making this easier, by taking the security burden off of individual devices and operating systems. But [...]

What Digital Security Really Means

Dylan — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:24:07 +0000

Let's get one thing straight: if you're dealing with sensitive information online then that data should be encrypted. If it isn't, you could be making a big mistake, possibly to the tune of millions of dollars. Every company should be working to secure their digital data. There is no such thing as perfect security; never [...]

Rustock Botnet Wisely Abandons TLS

Dylan — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:24:52 +0000

The big email spam news from last week was regarding MessageLabs' August Intelligence report, and the revelation that the Rustock botnet had risen to account for nearly 41% of all spam being sent. At over 46 Billion messages sent per day, that's a lot of spam. But the interesting part of the story is that [...]

Extending Encryption Wednesdays

Dylan — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:22:54 +0000

Today is the last Wednesday in August, also marking the end of our Encryption Wednesdays promotion where we gave free consultations to businesses interested in email encryption. Or at least, it was planned to be the end. But we got such a huge response that we didn't have time to fit everyone in and we're [...]

Encryption Wednesdays in August

Dylan — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 20:32:04 +0000

We recently attended Hosting Con 2010 in Austin, TX., a conference which brings attendees from all over the world to discuss the current and future state of the hosted service landscape. We had a great time there both sharing and learning about all the ways that hosted email services are improving business, and had a [...]

Email Tips: Read Receipts

admin — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:18:12 +0000

Has your boss read the latest expense report? Did your programmer get those updates for the website? Has everyone seen the notice about Casual Pirate Dress Friday? When collaborating with team members, especially in a large office or when someone is travelling, it can be helpful to know that your email was received. Greenview Data's [...]