Instant messaging has been touted as offering a range of business benefits. But there are also security and HR issues that Australian CIOs and IT managers should carefully consider.
On May 8, eEye Digital Security, the firm that discovered the Code Red worm last summer, reported that the Microsoft MSN Messenger chat client is vulnerable to an ActiveX buffer overflow.
A new worm that targets users of America Online's AOL Instant Messenger is believed to be the first that actually chats with the intended victim to dupe the target into activating a malicious payload, IM security vendor IMlogic warned on Tuesday.
Analyst group Gartner has warned its customers to take extra security precautions as companies such as IBM and Microsoft begin allowing federated access to both corporate and public instant messaging services.
Microsoft said on Tuesday that it had resolved problems that caused a significant outage affecting its MSN Messenger service worldwide.
Instant messaging has been touted as offering a range of business benefits. But there are also security and HR issues that Australian CIOs and IT managers should carefully consider.
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