by Robert Westervelt on January 22, 2015, 4:00 pm EST

Adobe Systems issued an update to address a Flash Player zero-day vulnerability being used in widespread attacks delivered through an automated toolkit and warned of another possible zero-day threat.

I found this email in my spam filter this afternoon.  (Thanks, SmarterMail!).   It's another attempt to take advantage of the fact that people are busy.  We're bombarded by incoming email - from customers, coworkers, vendors - and sometimes, we forget to think before we click.

This week at Virtual Density we launched our Lunch and Learn series.  Today and Tuesday, the topic was 'Self Defense for Small Business' and one of the topics we talked about was scam emails.  No sooner did we finish up this afternoon and I returned to my desk to find this email in my spam filter.

You ought to be.

Google says it's OK for them to read your email because ... well... because you shouldn't expect them not to.  In fact, it's in their terms of service - you read that when you signed up, right?

In a recent court documents, Google says, "Just as a sender of a letter to a business colleague cannot be surprised that the recipient's assistant opens the letter, people who use web-based email today cannot be surprised if their emails are processed by the recipient's [email provider] in the course of delivery.

Source: Westfair Communications westfaironline.com
By: Patrick Gallagher

Nick Sparaco, Jennifer Morandi and Christopher Furey of Virtual Density L.L.C. Photo by Patrick Gallagher

In business, redundancy is generally synonymous with waste — with one notable exception.