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Old 07-10-2010, 09:03 AM
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Exactly right AJ - There are solutions to the type of thing you mention but as most of you know they can cost a corporation hundreds of thousands of $. Even as a corporation we struggle with this and our security budget is well over 1M per year.

I'm not saying to ignore all your e-mail. But if it says something like: "hey check this out" or "Your account may have been compromised - please click this link to reset your account" or....

You should not use the e-mail, or social media, or 3G/4G phone to correct. As I mentioned earlier just go to the source web site and use the proper logon facilities that you know you've used in the past to see if there is an issue. Anything else and you are just asking for trouble.