Look out! Just when you thought you knew what to click on in your emails, another threat emerges. Based on our awareness campaigns, users now know to “look for the padlock” in the browser bar, and to “hover over a link” before clicking on it in an email. Those suggestions do help to some extent, but now the bad guys have introduced even more insidious approaches.
Read moreLook out! Just when you thought you knew what to click on in your emails, another threat emerges. Based on our awareness campaigns, users now know to “look for the padlock” in the browser bar, and to “hover over a link” before clicking on it in an email. Those suggestions do help to some extent, but now the bad guys have introduced even more insidious approaches.
Read moreGlobal Knowledge’s top blogs of 2016 spotlight the rise of developers, the fear of hackers and an overwhelming love of tech toys.
Read moreBack in October 1971, programmer Ray Tomlinson had no idea what he was about to start when he essentially sent the first email. That email consisted of something resembling “QWERTYUIOP.” It was a test email and had absolutely no importance to him at the time, so it was not preserved for posterity.
Read moreWe all get email. We all get junk email. The term that we use is SPAM email. In modern usage, we think of this as the punch line of a “Monty Python” routine. No, I will not sing the “Spam” song for you. The reality is that the term comes from an incident related to the so-called “Robert Morris” worm of 1988. Imagine a piece of Hormel canned meat thrown at the blades of a fan. What comes out the other side?
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