Outside North America, cellphone users make heavy use of texting. It’s like a very simple form of email. Spam’s quite rare, because senders are usually charged a few cents for each text. A typical user receives two or three a year. By way of illustration, here’s one I received a month ago: From: Winner Date:... read more »
PalmSource announced an agreement for the acquisition of China MobileSoft Limited (CMS), a Chinese mobile phone software company. PalmSource will issue approximately 1,570,000 shares of PalmSource common stock in exchange for the outstanding equity and rights to acquire equity in CMS. The transaction anticipated to close by February, 2005. read more »
TippingPoint announced that security information from its UnityOne Intrusion Prevention Systems integrates with the Symantec Security Management System (SSMS), which correlates information across multiple security devices for reduced research and remediation time. read more »
Oracle announced Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g, its suite of collaboration services. Key enhancements: addition of presence awareness, IM and voice functionality to web conferencing capabilities; enable collaboration to be embedded into business application portals; and Oracle Files 10g content management, among others. read more »
Fortiva is a new Exchange email archiving offering, currently in beta test with a number of respected firms, particularly ones in the financial services world. This is worth keeping an eye on. It provides policy-based archiving, and full-text-search-based discovery and retrieval. It’s a hosted solution that employs one or more customer-premise-based appliances. The customer-premise-based appliance... read more »
On December 7, 2004, IM middleware vendor IMlogic announced its IM Threat Center. Key elements are: Corporate users, anti-virus vendors, and IM hosted services send in alerts about new threats as soon as they are received IMlogic maintains IM honeypots to identify new threats New filters are distributed quickly and automatically to users of IMlogic�s... read more »
Link: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 Email Client Has Landed (I’m resisting the obvious pun). There’s no shortage of people suggesting that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is insecure, do many people feel the same away about Outlook Express?... read more »
IMlogic announced IMlogic Threat Center, its partnership with leaders in Internet security and instant messaging to provide detection, analysis, alert, and protection for harmful IM and P2P threats including IM-borne viruses, worms, SPIM (spam over IM), and malicious code. The threat center will serve as a comprehensive knowledge base for known IM and P2P vulnerabilities... read more »
Nortel and Symantec announced the establishment of a strategic relationship intended to provide next generation solutions for seamless defense against a wide variety of threats from the core of the network through the desktop. Development and delivery of specific products and services resulting from this relationship are subject to execution of a binding agreement between... read more »
Viruses and other malware usually spread by email, or through web servers. They are increasingly transmitted through instant messaging. There are about two or three attempts every month to spread viruses this way. Each one has limited distribution, to 50,000 or so recipients. IM is quite attractive as a vehicle for malware, because once you’re... read more »
Trend Micro released Trend Micro Mobile Security, its antivirus and anti-spam solution for SMS messaging customers using data-centric mobile phones and PDAs. Available immediately for devices using the Windows Mobile 2003 operating system and January, 2005 for devices using Symbian OS v7.0 and Windows Mobile 2003 for Pocket PC -Phone Edition and Windows Mobile 2003... read more »
Hot on the heels of AOL’s announcement that they will offer voice conferencing services to consumers, comes this news that they will make a similar move with WebEx.... read more »
Link: America Online | Press Center. AOL announced last week that they will offer consumers the ability to initiate group conference calls using standard telephone lines from within the AOL Instant Messenger Interface. This service will be delivered in partnership…... read more »
An interesting idea: Seti@Home-style harrasment of spammers. Don’t bother trying to download it. Lycos has removed it in the face of criticism, much of it ignorant and undeservedly harsh.... read more »
Now that’s it’s moot, let’s examine some interesting aspects of this case…... read more »
We got some very odd spam to one of our spamtraps a few days ago. It spamvertised a website hosted by Earthlink. So, I forwarded it to their abuse department (via SpamCop). After a quick to-and-fro, they confirmed that they’ve disconnected the website in question.... read more »
Link: Desktop Search: The Ultimate Security Hole?. Stories like this one are depressing. Products like Google’s desktop search are really useful tools that have made it possible for many users to give up on filtering and foldering email and simply…... read more »
Quest Software released Quest Archive Manager for Exchange 1.0, its email archiving solution for Exchange. Key features PST and central store archiving, ZeroIMPACT archiving, and controlled access to data, among others. Available immediately. read more »
Postini, announced that only 12 percent of all email messages it processed in November were legitimate, a two percent decrease from last month. Of the 6.9 billion messages processed by Postini, 88 percent were malicious attacks such as spam, phishing, viruses, and directory harvest attacks. read more »
Sherpa Software announced Discovery Attender for Lotus Notes, a new product in their Attender Utilities for Notes Suite. Audits, searches and isolates information in Domino server databases. read more »
Link: Motorola Mediacenter – Press Releases. Microsoft this week announced an agreement that will put the Exchange ActiveSync protocol into Motorola smart phones such as the forthcoming A780. This is the second such agreement in less than two months, coming…... read more »
MessageLabs launched version 4.0 of MessageLabs Anti-Spam. Key enhancements: incorporation of Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam technology, offsite quarantine facility, and improved connection-based filtering, among others. read more »
GFI released GFI MailArchiver for Exchange, its email archiving solution. Leveraging the journaling feature of Exchange Server, MailArchiver retrieves journaled emails, compresses any attachments and archives them to Microsoft SQL Server, where users can search for their past emails. Available immediately. read more »