Gartner predicts that all enterprises will be using Instant Messenger (IM) by 2010, which should send alarm bells ringing as IM attacks have increased by more than 700 percent in the past year.
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.
Security company Symantec has leapt into the nascent market for securing instant messaging systems, announcing that it has agreed to acquire IMlogic, one of the sector's top players.
A virus masquerading as a new beta version of Microsoft's MSN Messenger has begun circulating, antivirus company F-Secure said on its blog.
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