New Google Apps Device Policy App for Android

We’d like to inform you about an upcoming change to the Google Apps Device Policy app that impacts users in your domains. All Android users in your organization need to upgrade to the latest version of Google Apps Device Policy within 30 days. This ensures that the latest security policies are enforced on your users' Android devices. Google will enforce this policy for all major releases and critical fixes.

Users who have not upgraded to the latest version of Google Apps Device Policy within 30 days will not have the latest security features and may be blocked from syncing Google Apps data with their device (like Gmail, Calendar, and Contacts). Please instruct your users to upgrade to the latest version of the app and enable the app to auto-update.

For more information about Google Apps Device Policy and other mobile device management features provided with Google Apps, please visit Google Apps Device Policy help page.

New Chinese Spam E-mails Update

It seems there has been a flush of Chinese Characters Spam that is getting past Postini recently brought up to our attention by some of our clients.

Besides submitting samples to Postini, we found that for those that turned on SPF check, the spam has stopped, although we cannot be sure this is 100% accurate since some of the spam might not contain any SPF records at all, it should at least help to screen out a large part of such e-mails.

http://support.google.com/postini/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2533095

Another more drastic measure, for example, would be to create a content filter to screen out e-mails containing chinese characters in the subject line.

http://support.google.com/postini/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1077714

Regards,

Malek Support Team

Error 793 while sending emails through the Gmail web interface.

We have received some tickets from our clients regarding an error 793 message when trying to send emails in Google Apps, however according to Google this issue has been resolved. The outage lasted less than 15 minutes and did not affect that many users. 

New Spam email update.

There have been a few alerts regarding a Spam emails received by our clients.

Basically emails with the Subject: Scanned Copy and Return-Path: alert@dnb.com.




 Google has released an additional update to Stop additional spam:

Postini Realtime Filter Status Dashboard

2013-06-19 18:01:00 GMT - Spam Filters Updated Description: Postini Spam Engineers released a filter update to stop additional spam.

If a customer continues to receive this type of Spam another course of action will be to create a temporary content manager with alert@dnb.com to avoid this spam emails.

Please remember to send the original message and headers directly to Postini at spam@postini.com for analysis to help them continue to improve their filters.

We are sorry for the inconvenience this may be causing you.

Regards,
Malek Support Team

Spam from nacha.org

Many of our clients have continued to receive spoofed spam emails from nacha.org 

This has been going on for days. nacha.org  is using SPF records, so in order to prevent these messages, you really should be using SPF filtering- something we recommend for all of our clients. 
If for any reason you don't want to use SPF filtering, you are more prone on receiving spam and spoofed messages. But in the short term, you can create a content filter to prevent these messages as long as you are not doing any business with or expecting any email from nacha.org  Keep in mind that you may not be aware of it, but some of your users may be expecting emails from them, depending on the size of your company. Any time you implement a content filter, our recommendation is to quarantine the messages and not blackhole/block them altogether.

Please contact us if you have any questions about this.