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12 May 2008

Playing Nice – Using the Post Master Service of Major ISPs

Unsolicited Commercial Email, spam, junk or whatever you call it, unsolicited emails are both annoying and costly. In an effort to combat spam, major ISPs are increasingly monitoring incoming spam…

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8 May 2008

PCI Compliance Project: Vendor Selection

As part of our PCI Compliance Project, we are working with different scanning vendors to test who has the most user friendly, cost-effective and reliable services. We’ve finalized our list…

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8 May 2008

Selecting Secure Software

I previously wrote about Secunia’s PSI tool to help you keep your desktop updated. Secunia has another good use: checking up on software security history. Looking at a software’s security…

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7 May 2008

PCI Compliance Project

If you are selling online, you have likely already dealt with or will soon deal with PCI DSS. If you’ve gone through the audits you know they can be a…

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29 Apr 2008

Credit Card Data Still Unsafe Despite PCI

Today in the Wall Street Journal, there is an article regarding credit-card security failures. Despite passing certification for the PCI Data Security Standard, several major companies had security breaches. Though…

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28 Apr 2008

Managed Dedicated Servers

rackAID now provides Managed Dedicated Servers. Through a partnership with Softlayer, we now provide manged dedicated systems. We layer together Softlayer’s hardware with our support expertise to provide you with…

28 Mar 2008

How to Stop Email Backscatter

Email Bounces In the past few weeks, we have seen a sharp rise in email bounces. These bounces are for emails that the person did not send. While there are…

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