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User names and passwords aren't secure, and momentum continues to build across the industry to solve this problem in a manageable way. The first months of 2008 has seen spam levels rise with the economic situation and Olympics adding fuel to the fire. Smaller than my hand. More intelligent than a mini-computer. Able to detonate bombs from remote locations. Look! It’s a camera. It’s an electronic organiser. It’s the “cell phone”! Most spam is sent to non-existent addresses, but that can still generate annoying messages for genuine users. A look at two of the signing technologies PayPal plans to use to improve sent email authentication, which would allow ISPs to drop each email that isn't properly verified. With data becoming more mobile than ever, it is critical that companies have a pervasive security strategy across the corporate network. There's a lot of new research that will be revealed at this year's gathering of security pros, says RSA chief security strategist Tim Mather. Above and below. Left and right. In front and behind you. Use multi-dimensional security to fend off attackers, no matter where they come from. Large-scale data breaches across both the private and public sectors dominated the news throughout the year. Rob Buckley looks back. MessageLab's CEO and co-founder are determined to get a bigger slice of the American pie. Paul Fisher meets two men on a mission. The arrival of the iPhone could signal the beginning of the end for consumer choice. Now that the marketing blitz and customer hype about the Apple iPhone are reverting back to more realistic levels there comes some not entirely unexpected news... The W/32 Skipi.A worm that nagged Skype users in early September was fairly routine by malware standards. It arrived pretending to be a message from another user, offered erotic pictures, infected machines via malicious links, stole information and moved on to other PCs. Voice over (IP) is a dream concept for companies and organisations all over the world. With voice calls being sent over the internet, money can be saved on long-distance calls and intra-office calls. It was about four years ago when the IT department at Chris McClanahan's Fortune 500 financial services company began noticing a widespread influx of so-called smartphones seeking connection to the corporate network.
As we start to pay bills and surf the web from our mobile phones, it's not the handsets thieves will be after. "It's the economy, stupid." It worked for spammers now, and it will work for spammers in the future. When the subject of email security is mentioned, the first thought that comes to mind is "spam" or more appropriately "anti-spam." Instant messaging should be treated like email, with similar constraints. The idea that you can stop consumers copying electronic media doesn't hold water. But people will still try. You wouldn't post your home address on a public website. You should be just as careful with your work email address.