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A shifting landscape for e-mail security

Cisco Systems' purchase of e-mail security specialist IronPort Systems is another sign that big-name vendors are taking over the spam fight, analysts say. Read more »

Alliance turns up heat on spam

Yahoo, Microsoft, Comcast and others announced a proposal of best practices for filtering and sending e-mail. Read more »

PDF spam not a threat: Adobe

PDF spam is more a nuisance than a security risk, according to Adobe, which claims there is "no hard evidence" where the junk e-mail has become a serious issue. Read more »

Russia and China 'behind current spam deluge'

As hardcore criminals step up their spamming, experts believe that nine out of 10 of all e-mails may soon be unsolicited junk. Read more »

Seek.com.au targeted by e-mail harvesting tool

Security researchers have discovered an e-mail harvesting tool that was pre-configured to target Seek.com.au's candidate database — but a Seek executive claims its database is immune to such an attack. Read more »

Study: Five countries send 99 percent of spam

Offers of drugs, particularly Viagra, accounted for about one-third of global spam messages sent in the first half of 2004, according to a study by Commtouch, a company that sells anti-spam products. Read more »

Free Google Analytics: A spammer's best friend

Spammers are taking advantage of Google's free Analytics service to track the performance of spam campaigns and boost their business. Read more »

Bin Laden Trojan quickly constrained

A Trojan-carrying spam e-mail that purports to offer pictures of a captured Osama bin Laden tricks few Internet users. Read more »

Game Monsters attack Westpac customers

US-based gaming Web site, The Game Monsters, has been implicated in the latest of round of phishing scams targeting Westpac customers, according to security experts. Read more »

High noon for the spammers

The state of Texas has filed suit against two men accused of being among the worlds most prolific spammers, because 'Texans are fed up'. Read more »

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10 secrets to great e-mail marketing

Are you in the process of developing an e-mail campaign? Keep on top of the game with these tips from local expert Fred Schebesta. Read more »

Cyber-bludging special: Acceptable usage

There's no shortage of tools to monitor and filter employees' use of the Internet and IT resources. Read more »

10+ things you should know about rootkits

Malware-based rootkits fuel a multibillion dollar spyware industry by stealing individual or corporate financial information. If that weren't bad enough, rootkit-based botnets generate untold amounts of spam. Here's a look at what rootkits are and what to do about them. Read more »

Encrypt any file with symmetric cryptography using GPG

Encryption lets you keep your sensitive data, banking information and conversations safely protected by code. Learn how you can use the free GPG utility to protect your data. Read more »

Pop-up windows: Know the difference

Pop-up windows were a positive component in the beginning. Created long before tabbed browsers, their purpose was to present information without interfering with the current browser window... Read more »

So many conferences, so little time

Project management events are a good way to learn about new tools and connect with your peers. Here's how to select the most beneficial conference. Read more »

Tech Guide: What's inside Apple's Mac OS X Tiger

How does Apple's latest version of Mac OS X, Tiger, look and feel on the desktop? Read more »

Improve usability with friendly URLs

One of the many issues bandied about by Web developers is providing user-friendly URLs that are both friendly to the eyes and the fingers while typing. Read more »

Meet Microsoft's alpha tester

Ron Markezich is Microsoft's CIO, and he has some thoughts to share on making sure that 'Microsoft's products are the best products in the world', why offshoring won't grow, and why everything is .NET. Read more »

Checklist can help reveal IM use and abuse

Instant messaging is the latest Internet killer app. It allows people to easily communicate, but is this detrimental or a boost to productivity? Make your own decision by reading this article. Read more »

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ATTN Google, Spam is Spam!

Andrew Muller [blogs:nouveauricheinternet] -- I just don't understand it, my Google Mail (Gmail) spam folder overflows. What you say, lots of it - well, their spam filters must be working. While that may be true, I'm expecting more for what they have to offer. Read more »

Website defacement and spam together at last

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Fresh off the wires from IT Security firm Sophos this morning comes word of the hottest new trend in online pharmaceutical spam: linking to innocent, but hacked, websites which redirect to an on-line store. Read more »

Australian twitterati talks malware

[blogs:bootstrappr] -- It was inevitable that micro-blogging service Twitter would become infested with malware, according to a number of high-profile Australian users of the service. Read more »

Google to allow third party code in Gmail?

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- According to executives from the company, Google are preparing to open Gmail to developers outside the Googleplex labs. Read more »

How to Lifestream with WordPress

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Lifestreaming is the act of collecting and publishing all of your social networking activities in one stream. Here's the easy way to get started using your own install of WordPress. Read more »

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    Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »

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