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  • Hotmail hammered in Windows Live outage

    Microsoft's Windows Live services experienced a significant outage on Tuesday, leaving many users unable to get to their Hotmail inboxes.

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    A prominent anti-virus vendor has described the latest email fraud scheme targeted at Westpac bank customers as the most "devious" the company has ever encountered.

  • Yahoo urges dismissal of China lawsuit

    Yahoo has asked the judge in a US lawsuit to dismiss the case against it, claiming that it was bound by Chinese law when it helped identify two journalists in the country that were later jailed for criticising the communist government.

  • Sober worm hits new heights

    The Sober.P worm is circulating the Internet in greater quantities than ever, according to antivirus company Sophos.

  • Palin ordered to save e-mails

    Alaska Governor Sarah Palin must save any emails she sent from private accounts regarding state business, a US judge ordered late last week.

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    Citibank helps phishers improve their bait?

    It took help from three security experts, Citibank's spokesperson, dozens of e-mails and almost a full working day of investigation to confirm that an e-mail I had seen from Citibank was not actually a clever phishing attempt.

  • Read the blog post - Ella Morton

    A lament for the letter

    Remember the thrill of waiting for, and at long last receiving, a handwritten letter from a friend?

  • Read the blog post - Munir Kotadia

    Facebook e-mail notifications breach privacy

    Shortly after joining the social networking site, I received an e-mail telling me a friend had "written on my wall". Within two clicks I was logged-in and had full access to her Facebook account.

  • Read the blog post - Liam Tung

    Gold star for the ATO

    If Australia is going to take information security seriously, we need more people like the ATO's CIO, Bill Gibson.

  • Read the blog post - Munir Kotadia

    DDoS makes a phishing e-mail look real

    Just as Internet users learn that clicking on a link in an e-mail purporting to come from their bank is a bad idea, phishers seem to be developing a new tactic -- launch a DDoS attack on the Web site of the company whose customers they are targeting and then send e-mails "explaining" the outage and offering an "alternative" URL.

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    E-mail has taken a battering over the last year or so with mountains of spam and viruses delivered to our mailboxes daily. Can the problem be fixed, and can e-mail still be free?

  • Manage Microsoft's Windows Small Business Server 2003 e-mail accounts

    Here's what you need to know when it comes to installing, configuring, and managing SBS 2003 e-mail accounts.

  • The end of e-mail?

    The world's e-mail network is no longer the friendly place it once was and authentication could mean the end for the platform as we know it.

  • E-mail demand drives Queensland uni to ILM

    The Central Queensland University's realisation that its e-mail database was set to surpass the one terabyte mark has finally motivated the IT team to take proactive measures.

  • E-mail: Verb or noun?

    Recent Meta Group research indicates that a majority of organisations would like to reduce their dependence on e-mail as a document format supporting mission-critical processes.

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