National Cyber Security Awareness Week 2010 ends tomorrow (6-11 June, 2010). No matter when you are reading this it is well worth visiting the official Australian Government website at www.staysmartonline.gov.au for lots of easy to understand tips and information for home users, business, teachers, teens, kids and more.
National Cyber Security Awareness Week 2010
For anyone who has ever received an email that has either been sent to multiples of people or forwarded from many before getting to you, you’ll understand what I mean.
Hide the email addresses of your recipients!
This is how alot of email addresses end up on SPAMMERS (senders of unsolicited emails, like the Viagra ones) hit-lists. There’s also the possibility that if even just one person of those you e-mailed gets an e-mail virus, every person on that list is at risk of getting it. E-mail viruses check for ALL addresses that person has in his/her e-mail.
So the best way to send an email to many recipients is to send it using the BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) option. It is available in 99.9% of email programs/clients and website-based email.
Free Sony Ericsson Laptop Hoax
You may have already received a copy of the email hoax that promises a FREE Ericsson Laptop for simply forwarding the email to your friends.
This is a hoax that has been circulated over the Internet for many years. Sony Ericsson don’t give away laptops (it’s not how they make their money). And the model numbers mentioned in the email are actually that of discontinued mobile phones (as this hoax originated as a FREE mobile phone giveaway).
And to top it off there is a new version of this hoax email that now claims you can get a free Sony Vaio laptop by forwarding the email to 20 people.
The idea is to cause congestion to mail servers with all of the extra emails flying around and to waste people’s time in sending it.
Small things amuse small minds!
As any Internet user is aware, email is one of the most prominent forms of contact in today’s world. The average office worker would probably send more emails in a day than make phone calls.
And one the most common and problematic issues that comes with email addresses for business is using the “free” email accounts provided by your Internet Service Provider (ISP).
For example: ISP1 include 5 email accounts with the provision of Internet services such as an ADSL (or broadband) account. Business A subscribes to the ISP1 service and sets up the 5 accounts for staff members to use and the main email contact address for the business.
The first point to be aware of is that this does not send a professional message (or image) about the online business to Business A’s customers but what happens if Business A, who has been using and promoting these email addresses for years, decides to change ISP (for whatever reason)?
