TECHWEB TODAY: SECURITY & PRIVACY Wednesday, September 8, 2004 IN THIS ISSUE 1. Wednesday Security & Privacy Feature: Spam! Lovely Spam! 2. Security & Privacy News Of The Week
Today's Top News 3. Vendor Points To Soaring Mobile Broadband Demand 4. Spammers Using Authentication To Dodge Detection 5. Microsoft Doubles Blocking Time For SP2 6. ITAA Report: IT Job Market Is Slowing Other News This Week 7. To Share Or Not To Share? 8. Communications, Content Consume 77 Percent Of Time Online 9. Microsoft Dusts For Prints 10. Appetite For H-1B Visas Far From Slaked ------- Advertisement ------------------- Bill Boswell on Exchange Server 2003 at TechMentor Get the most out of Exchange Server 2003! Back by popular demand, Bill Boswell leads sessions on Upgrading from Exchange Server 5.5 to Exchange Server 2003, Secrets of Exchange Server 2003, and Exchange 2000/2003 Antispam Solutions. Attend his courses and others at the TechMentor Conference, Sep. 27 - Oct. 1, San Jose. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejLN0GpvDH0G4W0CkmK0Aa ----------------------------------------- 1. WEDNESDAY SECURITY & PRIVACY FEATURE: Spam! Lovely Spam! Billions of spam messages are sent every day--and the number is climbing quickly. Will this eventually kill e-mail as a business tool? http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejLN0GpvDH0G4W0ClbB0AH 2. SECURITY & PRIVACY NEWS OF THE WEEK Oracle Products Exposed To Hackers Oracle has issued an alert regarding multiple security vulnerabilities discovered across a wide range of its products. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejLN0GpvDH0G4W0Ckyv0AV Spyware Could Bungle SP2 Installations Microsoft warns that computers with spyware may freeze upon installation of SP2. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejLN0GpvDH0G4W0ClbC0AI Apache Says It Won't Support Sender ID The foundation is balking at Microsoft's strict licensing terms for the proposed anti-spam standard. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejLN0GpvDH0G4W0ClbD0AJ SurfControl Reports Record Profits E-Mail filtering proves lucrative for London-based firm. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejLN0GpvDH0G4W0ClbE0AK Porn, Spam, And Virus E-Mail Down In August MessageLabs data shows large drop in pornography, smaller drops in spam and virus e-mails. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejLN0GpvDH0G4W0ClbF0AL WinZip Vulnerable To Attacks WinZip warns users that its popular compression utility is vulnerable to a pair of buffer overflow-based attacks. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejLN0GpvDH0G4W0ClbG0AM ------- Advertisement ------------------- Bill Boswell on Exchange Server 2003 at TechMentor Get the most out of Exchange Server 2003! Back by popular demand, Bill Boswell leads sessions on Upgrading from Exchange Server 5.5 to Exchange Server 2003, Secrets of Exchange Server 2003, and Exchange 2000/2003 Antispam Solutions. Attend his courses and others at the TechMentor Conference, Sep. 27 - Oct. 1, San Jose. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejLN0GpvDH0G4W0CkmK0Aa ------------------------------------------- TODAY'S NEWS 3. Vendor Points To Soaring Mobile Broadband Demand STSN says the number of connections it provides for hotel guests has increased by 75 percent so far this year. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejLN0GpvDH0G4W0Bp7V0Av 4. Spammers Using Authentication To Dodge Detection MX Logic reports that 16 percent of spam messages analyzed included published Sender Policy Framework records. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejLN0GpvDH0G4W0ClbH0AN 5. Microsoft Doubles Blocking Time For SP2 Microsoft doubles the time that businesses can block Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) from downloading automatically. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejLN0GpvDH0G4W0ClbI0AO 6. ITAA Report: IT Job Market Is Slowing IT hiring is likely to remain relatively stagnant for the rest of the year, according to a survey. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejLN0GpvDH0G4W0ClbJ0AP OTHER NEWS THIS WEEK 7. To Share Or Not To Share? Everyone from IBM to a group of Minneapolis blue-chip companies wants to share code, but can sharing go too far? A look at the latest research on Linux and open-source IT projects. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejLN0GpvDH0G4W0ClRt0Ap 8. Communications, Content Consume 77 Percent Of Time Online Consumers spend more time on communications and content than on commerce or search. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejLN0GpvDH0G4W0ClbK0AQ 9. Microsoft Dusts For Prints Microsoft introduced nine new mice and keyboards, including its first that integrates fingerprint recognition technologies. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejLN0GpvDH0G4W0ClbL0AR 10. Appetite For H-1B Visas Far From Slaked Fiscal year 2005 hasn't even begun and already businesses have petitioned for 70 percent of the year's H-1B visa allotment. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejLN0GpvDH0G4W0ClbM0AS ----------------------------------------------------- Register Today For TechXNY Join us October 5-7 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York for TechXNY where you'll find the business solutions you need. We'll be covering storage, networking, security, database, Internet, wireless, Linux solutions and more. 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