The month of December 2011 has been rife with Email phishing attempts that are geared towards tricking Email recipients into clicking on bad links or attachments that contain viruses. 

In the last few weeks alone several legitimate businesses and organizations, including UPS, the BBB, the FDIC, Paypal, the CIA, and Delta Airlines fell prey to unethical Email marketers that used their names to send malicious mails designed to cause computer damage or to install malware on users computers.

The holiday season is a prime time for these Emails to be circulated because many people shop online so they're expecting packages and other deliveries. The sender takes advantage of a distracted person by fooling them with an Email that claims to "require their immediate action." If the recipient acts quickly to resolve whatever issue is claimed in the mail and clicks on a link or attachment, he could find himself with a computer full of viruses.

If your business or organization has received an onslaught of these types of mails, you'd be well served to implement Email Security to prevent these types of messages from being delivered to your local computer network, lowering your risk for computer infection and strengthening your computer network security procedures within your company. 

Luckily a cloud based SaaS solution makes guarding against these threats affordable without the need for costly appliances or hardware. Email security does the hard work of removing these threats before they see the light of day on your network, assuring that you won't fall victim to an Email scam because an employee clicked on something they shouldn't have.