The weak link that has allowed robots to turn Webmail into a spam hose?
Every webmail company faced the same problem and should do more to protect the its users .
Alongside the growth of social networks, use of communications tools like IM and webmail applications continued to grow at a significant rate.
In the 2000s, one of his start-ups delivered webmail and went public.
The company provides a secure gateway for web sites and applications and controls over the content posted to o blogs, wikis, webmail, and social networking sites.
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Records will include people's activity on social network sites, webmail, internet phone calls and online gaming, though officers will still need a warrant to see the content of messages.
The new ICQ owner is Digital Sky Technologies (DST), a high-flying Russian Internet firm with investments in social networks (Facebook and Zynga, which makes games for SNS portals) and webmail.
As of last year, social applications showed a five-fold increase in use while the use of other communications applications, specifically IM and webmail, doubled in the same time period across over 1, 000 organizations.
By their count, U.S. and U.K. workers on corporate laptops are more than twice as likely, compared with desktop users, to send confidential info by instant message, and about a third more likely to send confidential data across Webmail.
While free Web services produced just 6% of the Internet's pill-hawking and scam-pitching e-mail a year ago, automated spam programs exploiting Web e-mail services now produce more than 12% of digital junk mail, with Microsoft's Webmail services alone accounting for around 4%.
Which is more of a security threat, a user uploading a document for access on the go to a webmail account or to a service like Dropbox, or a document in the cloud, accessible via a smartphone but which does not allow you to download and store data on that smartphone?
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