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Phishing
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ALSO CALLED: Email Spoofing, e-Mail Fraud, Spear Phishing, Password Phishing, Brand Spoofing, Email Fraud, e-Mail Spoofing, Social Engineering, Internet Phishing, Carding, Password Cracking, and Spear-phishing
DEFINITION: E-mail spoofing is the forgery of an e-mail header so that the message appears to have originated from someone or somewhere other than the actual source. Distributors of spam often use spoofing in an attempt to get recipients to open, and possibly even respond to, their solicitations.
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Unified Communications Interactive Overview
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Posted: 22 Feb 2008 | Published: 22 Feb 2008
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Cisco SSL VPN Demo: Mobilizing Your Workforce
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This demo can help partners demonstrate to their customers how their employees can be more productive on the road by being able to access their e-mail and other business applications securely even when they're away from the office.
Posted: 22 Feb 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2006
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SpamSentinel for Lotus Notes and Domino
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Spam and other threats that enter Domino mail servers consume valuable storage space, cause IT Pros to spend hours fixing machines and slow down processors. This free trial IT download is an anti-spam solution that eliminates time spent dealing with spam.
Posted: 01 Aug 2007 | Published: 01 Aug 2007
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PHISHING DEFINITION (continued): … Spoofing can be used legitimately. Classic examples of senders who might prefer to disguise the source of the e-mail include a sender reporting mistreatment by a spouse to a welfare agency or a "whistle-blower" who fears retaliation. However, spoofing anyone other than yourself is illegal in some jurisdictions. E-mail spoofing is possible because Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), the main protocol used in sending e-mail, does not include an authentication mechanism. …
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