Video: Holiday spam campaigns

With the holidays around the corner, chances are inboxes will get flooded with unwanted spam. Chester Wisniewski, senior security advisor at Sophos, recently stopped by the offices to discuss this and how difficult it can be to distinguish real email from messages that pose the actual threats.

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