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1. Spam: Winning a Battle -- But Losing the War?

   [ Blog ] Topic: Spam | Author: CarlWeinschenk | Date Published: 11/14/2008

   It may be temporary, but it feels good. A victory on the endless battle against spammers was notched this week when McColo, a California hosting company, was switched off by Global Crossing and Hurricane Electric , the companies that provision it. SC Magazine says that the news was...

2. Lawyer Raises Constitutional Question about Legal Process Outsourcing

   [ Blog ] Topic: BPO | Author: AnnAll | Date Published: 06/02/2008

   I wrote last spring about India's coming growth in knowledge process outsourcing , in particular in the area of legal outsourcing. As if to confirm the trend, Indian outsourcing giant Infosys Technologies launched a division devoted to legal process outsourcing in late 2007. At least one...

3. Partnership to Make E-Mail More Secure for SMBs

   [ Blog ] Topic: E-mail and E-mail Management | Author: AnnAll | Date Published: 06/20/2007

   Though security is the bogeyman that haunts the dreams of many CIOs, it's especially scary for SMBs. SMBs generally have fewer resources to devote to security than their larger counterparts -- which is probably why one in four CIOs at SMB firms recently told CIO Insight that they weren't...

4. Microsoft, Gold Disagree on Windows Mobile E-Mail Security

   [ Blog ] Topic: E-mail Security | Author: CarlWeinschenk | Date Published: 11/13/2006

   The disagreement between Microsoft and Jack Gold, principal of J. Gold Associates, is important. A few weeks ago, Gold released research that raised red flags about using Windows Mobile 5.0 for e-mail . The problem, Gold said, is that Microsoft doesn't provide encryption for data on mobile...

5. Use the White House E-Mails as a Teaching Tool

   [ Blog ] Topic: Business Ethics | Author: CarlWeinschenk | Date Published: 04/16/2007

   The worlds of politics and technology often overlap, but never quite as overtly and publicly as in the case of the missing White House e-mails . Reports say that as many of 5 million messages -- including the majority sent during the past several years by presidential adviser Karl Rove --...

6. See the Whole E-Mail Security Picture

   [ Blog ] Topic: E-mail Security | Author: CarlWeinschenk | Date Published: 05/09/2007

   Much time and money has been spent protecting e-mail systems, and the industry has done a good job of reducing the threats that led to infamous meltdowns, such as the Melissa and ILOVEYOU viruses of 1999 and 2000, respectively. The spending, much of which now is focused on the related challenges...

7. Phishing Shows No Sign of Abating

   [ Blog ] Topic: Phishing | Author: CarlWeinschenk | Date Published: 08/24/2007

   Phishing is a pernicious and nasty threat that shows no sign of abating. As with any area of security, a close look at what is going on reveals very interesting -- and in many cases distressing -- details. The post at Light Blue Touchpaper offers a very interesting graphic on the life of...

8. Savor Every Victory Over Spammers

   [ Blog ] Topic: Spam | Author: CarlWeinschenk | Date Published: 09/10/2007

   It's nice to see some good news. InformationWeek reports on four men who pleaded guilty to e-mail-based pump-and-dump schemes. The story names the criminals, who face a maximum of five years in prison and $250,000 fines when they are sentenced in federal court in Alexandria, VA. In addition...

9. Mixed Messages: E-mail Encryption Grows at the Gateway, in the Client

   [ Blog ] Topic: Encryption | Author: CarlWeinschenk | Date Published: 09/17/2007

   This IT-Director.com story is a straight forward look at two approaches to e-mail encryption . Gateway-to-gateway encryption, as the name implies, only mixes messages as they enter or exit the enterprise. The other approach scrambles the data via software in the client device.The fullest...

10. SMB Security: Most Get It, But Some Heads Still Buried in the Cyber Sand

    [ Blog ] Topic: SMBs | Author: CarlWeinschenk | Date Published: 12/13/2007

    A few interesting surveys concerning small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) and security were released during the past few weeks. The most interesting element of a survey conducted on behalf of GFI Software by eMediaUSA was the theme that money and budgets, while important, are not the...

11. E-mail Encryption Grows More Sophisticated -- and More Important

    [ Blog ] Topic: Encryption | Author: CarlWeinschenk | Date Published: 12/14/2007

    Encrypting e-mail ranks high in just about every expert's list of important enterprise security steps. After all, this is a potent way to reduce the dangers from lost laptops, dishonest employees and many other ways in which valuable data is lost. This post at Server Watch drives the point home...

12. For Crooks, Big Gifts Come in Small Packages

    [ Blog ] Topic: SMBs | Author: CarlWeinschenk | Date Published: 03/28/2008

    One of the under-discussed subplots of the last decade is how the emergence of the Internet has shifted the balance between medium-sized business and enterprises. Once upon a time, each existed in its own world. Today, however, the lines blur: Small businesses use the Internet to go after...