Spam in Your Stocking: Malicious Holiday Email... and How to Stop It

Offers for holiday sales, charitable solicitations and free shipping may very well be cleverly disguised attacks by phishers attempting to obtain personal identity and financial information. Spammers and virus writers also use these tactics during the holiday season to enable them to create ever-larger botnets that can be used to launch spam, phishing and denial-of-service attacks from the corporate network. The presenters discuss how one can protect the organization from getting inundated by email-borne threats this holiday season.