| Not-So-Friendly Greeting Cards
You might want to think twice before opening that e-greeting card sent to you via e-mail. Cyber crooks have recently been blasting out millions of fake online greeting cards in the hope that recipients will click on the included links and infect their computers with password-stealing viruses. Previous e-greeting card scams harbored their viral payload in an infected e-mail attachment, but fraudsters now are simply embedding links in the fake card messages. Anyone who clicks on such a link without the benefit of the most recent security updates for their Web browser is likely to have their PC silently whacked with an invasive keystroke-logging program. .
Does Your Company Take a Best-in-Class Approach to Email Security? New Report from Proofpoint and Aberdeen Stresses the ...
The Ins and Outs of Email Vulnerability", a new Proofpoint-sponsored report from analyst firm Aberdeen Group explores the costs and losses associated with both incoming mail exploits-such as viruses, hoaxes, phishing attacks, and spyware-as well as the problems associated with accidental data lost through email, data leakage through email and email sent from infected machines. The core recommendations of the report detail the strategies, capabilities and technologies used by "best-in-class" companies to keep both inbound and outbound email safe. .
Drivers face ban from tram streets
TWO of Edinburgh's busiest streets could be closed to cars under plans being considered by city leaders. As part of the blueprint for the new trams network, it is understood that Shandwick Place would only be open to trams, taxis and buses, while Constitution Street in Leith would be used only by trams. .
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