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Protecting your on-line Business Vol 3, No 3
In This Issue
Webmail is now Encrypted!
DNS Servers are vulnerable.
SpamZapper is stopping viruses
Doing business with gmail?
 Encrypted WebMail!


ABS Computer Technology has updated it's WebMail portal for Email hosting customers which use the webmail interface to read their email.  Starting today, we are providing a Secure (encrypted) access portal for all Web Mail users.

The secure website for webmail is now available at Spam Zapper Secure WebMail.  We have created the Secure Access point to facilitate encrypted Web Access for business travelers that are using public access to read their email.

By encrypting our access portal, we are eliminating the ability for public networks to read your email, before you do.  After all, do you trust the public access terminals in Hotels or Airports?  Do you trust the Free Wireless networks at Coffee shops?  Well, you shouldn't.  You just do not know who has gotten their key loggers, or sniffing tools on the network before you got there.

We will continue to provide web mail access via the No-JunkMail.com website, as well as via the current customers domain names at {domainname}/webmail.

SSL Certificates are available for all hosted domains, please contact us at Admin for more information.  SSL Certificates also assist a website to be able to offer products for sale on the internet.
DNS Servers compromised

Recently the ISC (Internet Software Consortium) announced a significant vulnerability was detected regarding the DNS Servers on the Internet.

They reported the following: 'The ISC has become aware of a potential attack exploiting weaknesses in the DNS protocol itself to enable the poisoning of caching recursive resolvers with
spoofed data.'

This is a critical security threat, and if you are not hosted with ABS Computer Technology, we highly recommend that you request your ISP to indicate that they have  secured this threat from the internet.

If you have your own DNS servers in-house, please be sure to place this update HIGH on your list!
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Dear Internet User,

In this issue I want to introduce to you some important tools which you should consider to improve your personal security while on the internet.
SpamZapper is email security
Virus Scanners don't stop Viruses, but SpamZapper does.

For many years we recommended one virus scanner as being able to detect more viruses than another.  Brand A held the competition back for more than two years.  Then Brand A failed to stop the viruses.

While this was occurring, we were still developing our SpamZapper product.  Many people still don't have the benefits of our Email Security called SpamZapper.  SpamZapper stops viruses before it reaches your computer network. 

If you are not using SpamZapper and you have gotten a virus in your office system, chances are High that the rest of the computers in your network will be infected as well.  This means that you need to run the virus scanner on not just one PC, but on all of them.

SpamZapper is yet another layer of defense in security because in addition to eliminating Spam, we also scan all emails for viruses as well.  Our Servers check for updates every 20 minutes.  Can you spend that much time just checking to see if your Virus Scanner is up to date?

SpamZapper stops more viruses than ever before, including the zero-day exploits.  Zero Day Exploits are New viruses which make use of the latest windows based vulnerabilities, on the same day that they are detected.

Because SpamZapper employs a multi-layered approach to Email Security, we eliminate the threat of the Zero-Day Exploit, thus making your business significantly better protected.

So to put this in other terms, Virus Scanning is like taking an Advil for your Cold.  It will not stop the Cold, but it may make you feel a little better in the process.  SpamZapper is like washing your hands, meaning that the best method to spreading the virus, is to prevent it from spreading.
Spam continues to rise from gmail?

In our last Newsletter we reported that the Hackers have been able to break the CAPTCHA (a contrived acronym for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart" - Trademarked by Carnegie Mellon University) on the Google Gmail sites.

Major security interests have been able to identify that the amount of SPAM coming from gmail accounts has significantly increased, and is noted by the hackers being able to read the CAPTCHA graphic.

Recently the fail of CAPTCHA was fought in the US Courts, where Ticketmaster won the default judgement against software maker RMG Technologies, for their software which was used in the recent Hannah Montana ticket fraud which was swept across the country.  Ticketmaster was awarded $18.2M in the default judgment.  Was this enough?

The Ticketmaster fraud for Hannah Montana occurred back in September of last year.  This can only mean that the software tools for defeating CAPTCHA (trademarked by CMU) have been available for more than a year!

Since all of the Free Email hosting sites have been compromised (Read about it here) use of these tools is not recommended.  In fact, if you are in your office and you are receiving email from one of these sites, you should consider the email to be compromised first.

Most businesses want to maintain a pristine image about their ability to conduct business, even on the internet.  Our services have been effective in eliminating outside threats, and maintaining a professional image.  If the reason that a business is using a free email service is due to email access, then please have them contact us. 

We have secure and encrypted internet access methods available for Web Based, and traditional email solutions.

For more information on CAPTCHA, we recommend also reading (Wikipedia)
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