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Dec
Limit the Chance of Your MDaemon Accounts Being Hijacked and Abused by Spammers
This year in particular, I've seen an increasing number of users' email account credentials become compromised, which has allowed spammers free reign to use their mail server to send spam out to the Internet.
The usual result is an overflowing outbound mail queue, thousands of bounce messages coming in and your server's IP address being blacklisted.
The first thing to note is that if your company has an email server, you should assume that spammers will always be trying to hijack users' accounts by guessing their passwords.
In this post I will run through a few simple pro-active settings checks that can reduce the chances of this happening and - in the unfortunate event that it does happen - can limit the resulting negative effects.
Our friends over at the German developer of 
Cyren's quarterly Internet Threat Trends reports are a MUST READ for IT professionals and MSP's alike and this one is no exception.
You could be forgiven for not recognising the Cyren name as they've 
If you're using Office 365, or one of the many hosted Exchange variants available today, you may be aware that MailStore has long been able to give you a complete and automatically synchronised off-site copy of your mail.
I've always been happy recommending it as a solution, 
Alt-N Technologies, BackupAssist, MailStore....they were all there. And that's not all, we were even fortunate enough to bag a couple of inspirational guest 
October, as you'll probably know, is the unofficial 'silly season' for IT gatherings in the UK.
It's around this time each year, vendors, exhibition companies and industry bodies go all out competing for the attention of the IT support companies and MSP's they'd like at their events.
It may only be labelled a point release, but version 14.5 is absolutely crammed with improvements, highlighted by the somewhat 'epic' release notes linked below.
This release sees the addition of 
A new SSL vulnerability is doing the rounds this morning, known as POODLE, or Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption.
POODLE is a newly disclosed vulnerability in the legacy SSL 3.0 protocol that could be exposing users of newer Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption protocols to risk.
If exploited, the POODLE flaw could potentially enable an attacker to access and read encrypted communications.
The launch of the latest and greatest version of MailStore Server was announced today by the German vendor.
Version 9 boasts a long list of fantastic improvements for both end users and administrators alike - our pick of the bunch include the following...