William Leichter of the e-mail security firm Tumbleweed Communications confirms that the arrest of Robert Soloway failed to control spam e-mail levels for more than a few days.
He argued that their message -- warning users not to click phony security e-mails while sending out a security e-mail of their own -- could confuse users.
The e-mail security firm Postini confirms that the flow of spam e-mail that it tracks and blocks--between six and eight billion messages a week--hasn't decreased since Soloway's arrest.
In the latest breach of online security Sega announced Sunday that the logins, passwords, dates of birth and e-mail addys of all 1.3 million customers of its Sega Pass network have been stolen.
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More specifically, 80% of marketers said their organizations share e-mail addresses with third parties, compared with 47% of security and privacy officers.
Google offers a slew of competitive business applications, including its best-of-breed hosted e-mail security product acquired through Postini, so Microsoft desperately needs to improve its response to the Internet search giant.
"A clothing store's fall fashion lineup e-mail blitz is basically indistinguishable from spam, both for the technology providers and the customer, " says Scott Petry, founder of Postini, an e-mail security management provider in Redwood City, Calif.
Passengers may be thoroughly checked, but behind-the-scenes security is slack or non-existent, with inconsistent screening of mail, cargo and baggage, and an inadequate police presence, it said.
We were a little wary at the first when we heard about tying RFID so closely to our monies, and that Chase Bank blink card of ours has been collecting dust ever since it showed up in the mail, but the latest failings of RFID "security" have us running for the hills -- tin foil hat in tow.
But the move follows a string of incidents where either security in Passport - or the Hotmail free e-mail system to which it is tightly bound - has proved to be lax.
Ozancin wagged his finger at the sendmail mail transfer agent (MTA) as the cause of many past security exploits, including but not limited to buffer overflows.
Jean Pascal Zanders, a chemical weapons expert and a senior research fellow for the European Union Institute for Security Studies, cast doubt on the use of chlorine, saying in an e-mail that one small rocket couldn't deliver the quantity needed to kill 25 people.
Microsoft is revamping its e-mail security service into a next-generation security service based on the Forefront technology of Stirling.
Relying on oil and gas wealth, the country has yielded only a handful of entrepreneurial successes: search engine Yandex, e-mail service Mail.ru, cyber security giant Kaspersky Labs, and cloud computing company Parallels.
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By attacking a loophole in Microsoft's Outlook e-mail program it has rewritten laws of virus prevention and punched a big hole in PC users security systems that others can drive through.
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The only remaining key to preventing the expansion of Storm's zombie hordes may thus be prevention: If users stopped opening e-mail attachments from strangers--a basic security practice--Storm would lose its main avenue of infection.
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