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Linux servers 'attacked more often'
Talkback Symantec carefully monitors other potential threats such as the rise in peer-to-peer attacks (including instant messaging), mass mailers (like SoBig), the general trend toward theft of confidential information, and the rapid increase in the number...
[February 20, 2004, 19:15]
UK advertising authority introduces anti-spam rules
News The UK's advertising authority has taken new measures to stop junk email and text messaging, by making it mandatory in most cases for advertisers to get explicit consent before they can send commercial messages.
[March 5, 2003, 14:27]
Network Associates releases anti-spyware tool
News They also can be passed around through emails and peer-to-peer applications such as instant messaging and music file-sharing software. According to a report published by the National Cyber Security Alliance in May 2003, 91 percent of the 120...
[January 23, 2004, 11:10]
Browsers beware: new holes in IE and Flash
News In fact, this attack doesn't even require the use of a browser, just an application that will play an SWF file, which can include instant messaging and e-mail. This fault is not a security threat as such, but it does consume bandwidth and slow...
[August 27, 2002, 12:24]
Microsoft takes Passport to Washington
News Windows Messenger -- Microsoft's communications console delivering instant messaging and videoconferencing, among other features -- uses Passport authentication. Only communications features such as instant messaging and videoconferencing require...
[August 23, 2001, 8:48]
Social Services turns to Wi-Fi
News Synchronisation will be provided by Intellisync, an independent wireless messaging company. Security concerns have also been addressed, according to Nakhimoff. Security was a major concern. That is why there are now two levels of security on the Xda.
[August 31, 2005, 16:30]
Google's search will go beyond the browser
Leader Add extra features such as integrated email, instant messaging, automated backup to a remote storage facility and so on, and it gets very interesting. IE is clunky and has a history of security trouble; Mozilla's making inroads for those reasons...
[September 24, 2004, 12:35]
Google Talk: a first look review
Reviews It lacks many of the bells and whistles of other instant messengers, including emoticons -- those graphical smiley faces that pepper the chat sessions of popular instant-messaging services such as MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, ICQ and Skype.
[August 30, 2005, 9:45]
VeriSign poised to win Net ID struggle
News VeriSign's Personal Trust Agent technology will also sit behind Microsoft's Passport authentication, single sign-in and secure-messaging capabilities. While its ultimate applications are still foggy, boosters say the project will allow individuals...
[September 28, 2001, 9:28]
Small firms 'squeezed out' on telecoms customer care
News Interestingly, it appears that 39 percent of business mobile users only use their phones to make and receive calls, with the majority of the rest also using the phones for text messaging. The survey found that 16 percent of small businesses had...
[June 2, 2006, 11:30]
Apple to unleash Tiger on 29 April
News Apple also detailed the planned features for the Unix-based server edition of Tiger, including support for 64-bit processors and the iChat Server for instant messaging. By contrast, chief rival Microsoft has shipped only one major desktop release...
[April 13, 2005, 9:45]
SIP flaw causes problems for Cisco
News SIP is an application layer signaling protocol used during Internet sessions to initiate conferencing, telephony, presence, events notification, and instant messaging. Users and vendors need to make sure they keep up with the security updates on...
[March 10, 2003, 10:00]
OS X under attack
News The first worm, dubbed Leap-A, spreads via Apple's iChat instant-messaging utility, and it only appears to affect Mac OS X 10.4 platform files. While this is probably a more serious blow to those who tout Apple's security superiority to Microsoft...
[March 1, 2006, 12:55]
Mobile Threats Rise as Global Markets Fall
Blog This figure marks a significant year-over-year growth trend within the UK multimedia messaging (MMS) market. As many studies demonstrate, security spending is one of the first commercial cost centers to get cut in uncertain economic times.
[December 18, 2008, 2:06]
Putting the fun back into hacking
News In addition, groups had to provide certain services -- such as email, Web access and instant messaging -- but the GhettoHackers didn't tell the teams which ones. Cowan and nearly a hundred other hackers and security experts were playing the latest...
[August 6, 2002, 8:12]
New company aims for simpler PGP
News We are going to take our knowledge of both client and server-side software and in the future build on that to create a much easier-to-use secure messaging architecture. You are faced with the situation where usability is traded off against security...
[August 19, 2002, 16:42]
Making the call for VoIP standards
News Of the exciting new applications promised, such as unified messaging, web-based call centres and so on, almost nothing exists. The standard has also acquired H.248 to control gateway functions and H.235 for its security framework; future additions...
[July 31, 2002, 8:03]
Apple users targeted by IM Trojan
News Leap-A, which appears to affect only the OS X 10.4 platform, spreads primarily via the Apple iChat instant-messaging program. A malicious program that could be the first Trojan in the wild to target Apple's Mac OS X operating system has been...
[February 17, 2006, 8:25]
New Passport privacy tied to IE 6
News Passport is one of several technologies -- including media-player software and instant messaging -- under fire because they are integrated into Windows XP. Passport is a key component of Microsoft's upcoming .Net and HailStorm Web services...
[August 10, 2001, 8:58]
AOL deal boosts Microsoft media technology
News In the past, the two have clashed on a number of fronts in this regard, offering competing Web browsers, streaming media technology and instant messaging services, for example. AOL has also been tightening its ties with Apple, giving the computer...
[May 30, 2003, 7:51]
