Today's News: Who's winning the IM battle?

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September 15, 2004 Published by  SearchDomino.com    Today's News Issue Sponsored By:   > Postini IN THIS ISSUE:   >  Instant messaging's real winners   >  J.P. Morgan cancels IBM outsourcing deal   >  Study: U.S. tech industry lost 400,000 jobs   >  More headlines   >  Chapter Download: Blocking spammers with DNS blacklists   >  Tip: Creating the 'Mark unsigned mail with attachment' agent   >  Tip Contest: Hurry! Submit your tip and you could win $100!   >  The Missing Link: SearchSecurity.com finds fun with acronyms Instant messaging's real winners [SearchDomino.com] Microsoft and IBM aren't drawing crowds with their enterprise IM offerings. But surprisingly, IM has been a boon to some vendors that don't even sell IM technology. MORE INFO: > Learn why IM strategies from Lotus & Microsoft offer mixed messages > Read more about the mad scramble for enterprise IM customers   Free White Paper: How spammers are stealing your email directory Did you know that spammers are probing your email system in an attempt to identify and "harvest" legitimate email addresses from your organization? This is what is know as the "silent killer" or "directory harvest attack" (DHA). A rising industry threat, you may have already observed some of the symptoms of these virtually undetectable attacks on your email systems. Learn what you can do today to protect your organization from these attacks. Click here for your Free White Paper.   J.P. Morgan cancels IBM outsourcing deal [Reuters] J.P. Morgan Chase said today that it was canceling a $5 billion outsourcing deal with IBM, and planned to rehire about 4,000 workers who had been transferred to IBM under the pact. Under the landmark seven-year deal announced in December 2002, IBM was to take over the global computing operations for J.P Morgan in a wide range of areas including retail banking, trading and securities processing. Study: U.S. tech industry lost 400,000 jobs [CNET News.com] Research from the Center for Urban Economic Development at the University of Illinois at Chicago paints a dismal picture of the U.S. tech job market. Researchers say that more than 400,000 U.S. tech jobs have disappeared since March 2001, with the San Francisco, Boston and San Jose areas being hardest hit. The study was commissioned by union group WashTech. More headlines [From around the Web] IBM offers RFID services for manufacturers (ZDNet) Linux standard gains big-name backers (CNET News.com) IMlogic tool finds, blocks IM (InternetNews) DOWNLOADS:  Chapter Download: Blocking spammers with DNS blacklists DNS blacklists are an integral part of any spam-fighting toolkit. That fact that many users on the Internet are updating them means that you get the benefit of blocking a spammer before the first piece of spam even hits you. This chapter from the book The Anti-Spam Tool Kit, by Paul Wolfe, Charlie Scott and Mike Erwin, explains what DNS blacklists are, how they work and how to implement them on a mail server. The chapter also discusses how to decide which DNS blacklist is the best to use for your organization's circumstances. TIPS:  Tip: Creating the 'Mark unsigned mail with attachment' agent The "Mark unsigned mail with attachment" agent automatically checks for unsigned mail carrying an attachment. Because more and more mail messages are sent using an unknown or even a fake user ID, this agent can add one more level of security to help your organization prevent the spreading of worms and viruses. CONTESTS:  Tip Contest: Hurry! Submit your tip and you could win $100! Time is running out! SearchDomino.com's tip contest is almost over. 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