Instant messaging spam -- or 'spim' -- is here and showing all the characteristics of a precocious sibling to its older brother, e-mail spam.
Up to 90,000 BigPond customers are believed to have taken up Telstra's free anti-spam/anti-virus and firewall software offer since the company launched the move in response to the recent e-mail brown-out.
BigPond has moved to boost its anti-spam systems as the Internet service provider revealed its existing network filters were rejecting six million spam or virus-infected e-mails per day.
Security -- both virtual and physical -- has reasserted its place at the forefront of business and community concern after the tragic events in London and a raft of developments in Australia and overseas.
Last week, the Australian Communications Authority posted a report on consumer forums held in June as part of its consultation process on proposed quality of service frameworks for broadband and high data rate services. The results were illuminating.
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