A seemingly innocent e-mail from Citibank Australia introducing a new online banking process has been mistaken for a phishing attack.
Yahoo and AOL's plans to charge trusted marketers a fee in order to allow their e-mail messages to bypass spam filters has been slammed by security experts and snubbed by Australia's largest online media company, ninemsn.
IBM upped the stakes in the United States in an ongoing contest over corporate e-mail software with a program that offers business partners up to US$20,000 to dump Microsoft's Exchange in favour of IBM's Lotus software on Linux.
The Sober.P worm is circulating the Internet in greater quantities than ever, according to antivirus company Sophos.
Over the past year the number of online dating sites has increased significantly but security experts at Internet Security Systems (ISS) say many of these sites are being used at this time of year to spread malicious code, not love.
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.
It wasn't too long ago that vendors still made a lot of their money through equipment markups. Telcos were the same, with comfortable profit on ISDN, STD calls, calls to mobiles and other heavily used services padding out financial reports.
In my last post I covered the knowledge management press's first impression of the Web 2.0 phenomenon. But should we be looking at enterprise Web 2.0 as a KM issue?
A Sydney-based start-up is offering a way for doctors to track and bill their clients for consultations over the phone and by e-mail.
Could quarantining e-mails be a better way of dealing with viruses than the traditional approach used by most antivirus companies?
To measure the service level of your e-mail application, metrics like uptime and header troubles do not always tell the whole story. So what other metrics should you use?
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.
IT lawyer and ZDNet Australia columnist Jeremy Szwider looks at the legalities of e-mail forwarding.
As a tool for the e-mail-centric, the BlackBerry wins plenty of praise on its own merits and the addition of wireless modem functionality further sweetens the deal.
Thunderbird 2 provides a compelling option for users looking for an open source e-mail client.
Computer users continue to be duped by false virus alerts persuading them to delete harmless--but sometimes vital--files, and then forward the hoaxes to their friends.
Big Blue says it has a slimmed-down alternative to Microsoft Office that it will bundle into the next version of its portal software.
While Symantec's protection is solid, the overall user experience within Norton Internet Security 2008 could be much, much better. Not all the features work together and use fewer system resources.
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