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10 Best Practices for Email Security

Tech Soup

Stop Spam & Phishing Emails. Spam is not only a nuisance; it can also pose security risks. For instance, by converting a Word file to PDF, any potentially harmful scripts can be removed. In the worst case, a large email attachment can bring a whole network to a halt. Check Internal Emails. Archive Emails. spanhidden.

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You're an Accidental Spammer: What Do You Do When You've Been Hacked? (Digital Dispatches from the desk of Gavin Clabaugh)

NTEN

Scenario: Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, bacon and spam. It seems your baby steps into the world of user-generated content and social networking have turned on you. Worse, there are a couple of thousand anti-spam-bots gunning for you now. The names have been changed to protect the paranoid.

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Who's Knocking at My Firewall Door? Simple Security for the Nonprofit IT Professional

NTEN

Ro)bots (or spiders) are scripts or applications that search out information on the web. Social networking sites are the next and prime targets for cyber do-no-gooders. For many of these issues, good spam/virus filtering is essential. They may be infected. Remember the malware scare surrounding free downloads a decade ago?

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A Conversation with Michael Gilbert on Nonprofit Blogging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nonprofit Online News is tied with Scripting News (Dave Winer's blog) as the oldest weblog still being published, period. I think of the origin of Nonprofit Online News as one of those sweet Internet accidents, something that always reminds me that networks are infrastructures of natural abundance. Q: When did you start publishing?

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Measuring Your Blog's Outcomes and Use of Other Social Media Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ah, my screencast script on google analytics completely ignores social media and only focuses on web sites. I did not include spam comments or my own). I still don't think navigation matters much though. A time consuming pain. particularly because I'm 100% in love with this metric to measure conversation.

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