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   And over in Japan...

   

   dorpus, Aug 5th, 2004 @ 11:50am

   
   

   There has been a crime wave by scammers who send postal bills from a "collection agency", with realistic "final notice" labels, etc. The bills talk about "service charges" for embarassing-sounding names like "Suki's bath house", etc., hoping that husbands would cough up the money before their wives see it. The scammers have even called up the victims on the phone, claiming to be lawyers.
   
   The article (in Japanese) is at
   
   http://www.kokusen.go.jp/soudan_now/twoshotto.html
   
   
   

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   Corporate solutions

   

   TJ, Aug 5th, 2004 @ 5:54pm

   
   

   When a report says 'corporate', I read medium to large company or organization. For organizations of that size, I am shocked that they would not have implemented the following by now as my employer has: 1) e-mail firewall that virus scans mail and strips executable attachments and optionally handles content filtering, 2) enterprise virus scanning that centrally deploys, updates, and monitors antivirus software, 3) stateful inspection firewall and some type of outbound web/ftp proxy; a combination that allows blocking suspicious incoming and outgoing traffic, 4) for Microsoft shops the free download Software Update Services, which deploys OS and IE matches very efficiently, and perhaps 5) web filtering of known explicitly sexual, cracking, and exploit sites that are the biggest web risks for hostile code. With such solutions in place, such mundane problems are all but eliminated. With about 2000 seats, my employer hasn't had any significant issues in several years. [full disclosure] I'm one of the IT guys who has been responsible for implementing said solutions, with management approval.
   

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