Tag Archives: Spam

Does That Suspicious Email Contain A QR Code?

Posted on 2023-09-21 by mike

In some cases, suspicious emails might contain QR codes to take you to a web site for further action :- For example :- In general, QR codes can contain web site addresses, but because they are encoded, it makes it … Continue reading →

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Spam: Mail Quotas and Bitcoin

Posted on 2021-02-22 by mike

Recently we have become aware of an issue in relation to one of our cloud service providers which is weakening one of our email security measures – specifically the mechanism put in place to make it harder to impersonate UoP … Continue reading →

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Mail Diagnostics: Getting The Original View

Posted on 2015-09-17 by mike

When dealing with problematic emails, it is vitally important to get a proper view of the message headers. Mail clients (such as the Google Mail client on the web) typically hide this view, and only show the interesting headers such … Continue reading →

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Spam via Email

Posted on 2015-02-18 by mike

Spam is on the increase. Or it’s on the decrease. To be honest, it’s rather difficult to say which direction spam is going in because it’s continually variable. And because frankly, it is not an interesting topic to worry about … Continue reading →

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