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========================================================= Sponsored by Dell Small Business Business saves BIG with the Dell Biz E-Catalog! http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1341-2-3-308321-148386-1 ========================================================= November 5, 2004 ========================================================= In This Edition ========================================================= 1. News: Wireless Eyes Watching Airport Security 2. News: New Phishing Attack Uses Old IE Exploit 3. News: Microsoft Readies New Office Update for Small Biz Owners 4. News: E-gold Tracks Cisco Code Thief 5. News: Computer Loses 4,500 Votes in N.C. 6. News: Coming to Project Managers: Multiscreen Microsoft PC 7. News: Mozilla Releases New Version of Thunderbird 8. News: Virginia Seeks to Send Spammer to Slammer For the latest in enterprise technology, bookmark eWEEK.com. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1341-2-3-308321-148389-1 ========================================================= News and Views ========================================================= 1. News: Wireless Eyes Watching Airport Security With fears of terrorism still in the air, vendors at this week's International Security Conference touted new surveillance technologies being used in transportation and logistics to pinpoint suspicious packages, peer inside transport vehicles and positively identify people even through darkness and fog. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1341-2-3-308321-148392-1 Enterprise, Government Team for Security http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1341-2-3-308321-148395-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2. News: New Phishing Attack Uses Old IE Exploit A new phishing attack is utilizing a vulnerability in Internet Explorer, patched early this year, to hide its true source. Citifraud.A appears to come from a bank. Find out more about this "high" level threat. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1341-2-3-308321-148398-1 Cyber-Crime http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1341-2-3-308321-148401-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 3. News: Microsoft Readies New Office Update for Small Biz Owners Microsoft is set to launch on Nov. 8 its small-business solutions strategy, one element of which will be a new version of Microsoft Office designed expressly for the small-business manager or owner. Mary Jo Foley of Microsoft Watch has the details. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1341-2-3-308321-148404-1 Focus on SMBS http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1341-2-3-308321-148407-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 4. News: E-gold Tracks Cisco Code Thief The electronic currency site that the Source Code Club said it will use to accept payment for Cisco's firewall source code is confident it can track down the perpetrators. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1341-2-3-308321-148410-1 Internet Security http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1341-2-3-308321-148413-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 5. News: Computer Loses 4,500 Votes in N.C. More than 4,500 votes have been lost in one North Carolina county because officials believed a computer that stored ballots electronically could hold more data than it did. Scattered other problems may change results in races around the state. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1341-2-3-308321-148416-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 6. News: Coming to Project Managers: Multiscreen Microsoft PC Microsoft has launched a new entry in its ongoing effort to bring more innovative PC form factors to market--in the somewhat quirky form of a high-end system specialized for project managers. Take a look at the Project PC and see how it measures up to previous products like the Tablet PC. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1341-2-3-308321-148419-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 7. News: Mozilla Releases New Version of Thunderbird While Mozilla's Firefox Web browser garners most of the headlines, the open-source group's Thunderbird e-mail client is also attracting users' attention. Mozilla Thursday released the latest beta edition of the program. Read about its features. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1341-2-3-308321-148422-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 8. News: Virginia Seeks to Send Spammer to Slammer The first felony convictions for spam in U.S. history were handed down when a jury in America Online's home county convicted a pair of North Carolina spammers on Wednesday, recommending that one be sent to prison. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1341-2-3-308321-148425-1 ========================================================= Tech Jobs http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1341-2-3-308321-148428-1 ========================================================= Ziff Davis Channel Zone http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1341-2-3-308321-148431-1 ========================================================= DevSource http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1341-2-3-308321-148434-1 ========================================================= eNewsletter Information ========================================================= You are subscribed to this newsletter with the e-mail address [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE, click here: http://www.eweek.com/unsubscribe_newsletter/0,4223,,00.asp?n=06&type=u&[EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your HTML/text preferences, change your e-mail address or subscribe to other eNewsletters from Ziff Davis Media, click here: http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1341-2-3-308321-148437-1 Questions about your newsletter subscriptions? 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