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Understanding outbound spam controls in Office 365
As a Program Manager of Antispam in Office 365, one of the questions I am frequently asked is “How many messages outbound are we permitted to send per minute? Per hour? Per day?”When I use the term...
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How to create more aggressive Bulk email settings in Exchange Online
One of the more common requests in the Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE) and Exchange Online Protection (EOP) services is “How do we get more aggressive bulk email filtering?”In a...
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I am finally experimenting with a password manager. Here are the results so far.
I’ve been aware of password managers for years but I never used one – I was skeptical. While I understand their benefits, I always thought they would be too inconvenient to use. I’m going to assume...
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How is my password manager experiment working so far?
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote that I had started experimenting with a password manager. I thought I’d give an update on how it’s working for me so far.Here’s what I do:I use my Windows 8 laptop as my...
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Humorous, or not-so-humorous, cartoon on the roll-out of healthcare.gov
I found the following cartoon today on Reason. If you’re not familiar with the situation, the US government rolled out a website, healthcare.gov, where people can go to sign up for health insurance...
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Humor–Opinions on Internet Privacy
I saw this a few months ago and meant to post it back then, so I am posting it now. Via XKCD.
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I worry more about being hacked than being tracked, and I am in the majority
This is going to be a long post. Please read through the whole thing before you comment.I have been following this NSA spy-story for several months now ever since Edward Snowden started revealing back...
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Microsoft, the NSA, the Backfire Effect and how we all make bad decisions
A couple of weeks ago, I read a blog post on the Wall Street Journal where they were commenting on comments made by Brad Smith, Microsoft’s top legal counsel. His comments were in response to latest...
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Why do spammers spam? I try to explain it using the Moralization Gap
Don’t spammers know they are irritating the rest of us?Lately, I have been thinking a little bit on why spammers spam. I have never conducted a large study of this, all of my research about their own...
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Understanding identification of Bulk Email in Office 365
Bulk email, sometimes referred to as grey mail, or gray mail, is a type of email that is difficult to classify for all users at a global level. Bulk or gray email is email that some users want but...
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It turns out that the NSA can “jump the air gap”
In case you missed it, the other day news broke indicating that the NSA could spy on you using radio waves, that is, even if your computer was not connected to the Internet.From CBS News:The New York...
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Understanding how Exchange Transport Rules work on the Sender
One of the more powerful features in Exchange Online Protection (EOP) are Exchange Transport Rules, also known as ETRs. These have a variety of functionality but the one I want to focus on is how they...
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According to the World Economic Forum, I am helping to fight the seventh most...
This is going to be a long post.How I spent my weekendThis weekend I took a quick glance at the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks for 2014 report. The WEF is a Swiss nonprofit foundation that...
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Let’s not be too smug when others are hacked because we all do things we...
This will be another long post.A couple of weeks ago, you may have read that the Syrian Electronic Army hacked into Forbes and posted a bunch of usernames and passwords. What you may not know is that...
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The Internet of Everything: Why I will never be out of a job
Business Insider recently posted a slide deck about the next big thing: The Internet of Everything. This is basically about how all of our devices will soon be connected to the Internet. You can watch...
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Life in the cloud seems… overrated
You can call me cynical but the latest digital revolution – putting your life in the cloud where you interact with it using devices – seems overrated to me.You know what I mean; if you’re a member of...
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One advantage of life in the cloud
As I mentioned in my previous post, I recently went to Taiwan with my wife to visit her parents and extended family. And as I said in my previous post, I was really underwhelmed by the promise of “life...
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I received a pretty good Apple phish this morning
This morning, I discovered that I had received an email “from” Apple informing me that I had recently updated my credit card with Apple:The screenshot above is from my Thunderbird email client but...
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Blocking executable content in Office 365 for more aggressive anti-malware...
Sometimes, spammers and malware writers create malware that passes through our service and arrives in customer inboxes. This is known as zero-day malware. The anti-malware engines that we use have not...
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