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Microsoft Sets PST Free -- And Everybody Wins

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 10:56 AM ET | Oct 27, 2009

By opening its Outlook data format, Microsoft might lose a few customers. But it will also give many others a good reason to stick around.

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Business & E-Business | Company Size: 1-49 | Hardware & Software | Messaging | Windows

Smartphones Call For Security-Smarter Users

Posted by Keith Ferrell 11:42 AM ET | Oct 26, 2009

Smartphones, and all the other smartstuff filling our pockets, bags, lives, make for mobile convenience and access -- including access by crooks. Time to get your smartphone-using staff to dial up their security practices.

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Networking & Communications
Messaging | Mobile | Networking & Communications | Security | Technology/Telecom

SMB Security Provider Sees $1 Billion Markets Becoming $100 Million Markets

Posted by Fredric Paul 12:04 AM ET | Sep 28, 2009

Walter Scott, CEO of Malta-based GFI Software, says that a combination of decreasing bandwidth costs and increasingly cost-conscious small and midsize companies are changing the security landscape.

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Spammers To Idaho: You're The Tops!

Posted by Keith Ferrell 03:10 PM ET | Sep 24, 2009

Spam targeting is one of those categories you don't want to be Number One in, but somebody has to be. According to a new report from MessageLabs, the top spam targets in the U.S. live in Idaho. But the rest of the states aren't that much better off.

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Google Pushes Further into the Enterprise

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 04:34 PM ET | Sep 22, 2009

E-mail has become the lifeblood for many companies. Increasingly, employees are traveling outside of the corporate office and need ways to stay in contact with it. In response, Google broadened the reach of its Google Apps, so they can now exchange information with Apple iPhones and Windows Mobile cell phones.

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Messaging | Mobile

Live Chat With A Cybercrook! Popup Talk Latest Scam

Posted by Keith Ferrell 10:12 AM ET | Sep 18, 2009

Phishers have always counted on volume and automation to generate revenues: scam mails by the millions, proliferating malware links, a deluge of devious and deceptive tools designed to grab info from the unsuspecting. Now they're using chat to pluck their pigeons one-on-one.

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What Is E-Mail Worth To Your Company?

Posted by Fredric Paul 01:01 PM ET | Sep 11, 2009

These days, small businesses have a wide range of e-mail options, ranging from on-premise Microsoft Exchange servers to cloud-based Web mail -- and everything in between. And prices range as widely as the technology, from free on up.

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Gmail Goes Down ý Again

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 07:25 AM ET | Sep 2, 2009

Google has been aggressively positioning its Gmail mail service as an alternative to Microsoftýs Exchange line and had a great deal of success in the small and medium business sector. However, the serviceýs reliability has been an ongoing concern, and it was knocked offline once this week.

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Networking & Communications
Cloud Computing | Company Size: 1-49 | IT | Messaging

OOOPS Factors: Accidental Data Leaks Are Biggest Business Threat

Posted by Keith Ferrell 10:56 AM ET | Aug 26, 2009

A new IDC/RSA report shows that the the accidental data leak is the insider threat businesses feel is most likely to happen. Not a lot of comfort in that, if you think about it.

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Business & E-Business | IT Management | Messaging | Networking & Communications | Security

Pidgin Brings Order To The IM Jungle

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 04:11 PM ET | Aug 25, 2009

Instant messaging is supposed to be quick and easy. One of my favorite open-source projects actually delivers on that promise.

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Company Size: 1-49 | Hardware & Software | Internet/Web | Messaging | Open Source

Businesses Banning Social Networks? Not So Fast!

Posted by Keith Ferrell 10:06 AM ET | Aug 24, 2009

Social networks such Facebook and Twitter are the new porn, at least according to one security firm that finds three quarters of businesses blocking social nets. But social nets' business potential is so large that by banning them businesses are essentially cutting off their noses to spite their Facebook.

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What Are Botmasters Thinking?

Posted by Keith Ferrell 10:24 AM ET | Aug 21, 2009

They're thinking that bots are where the money is, according to a fascinating piece over at Dark Reading. Did you know, for instance, that the average bot is worth between a dime and quarter on the market? You gotta sell a lotta bots at that price to make real money -- and people are making real money doing just that.

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Business & E-Business | Internet/Web | Messaging | Security | Social Networking

The Hidden Gems In Twitter's Tower Of Babble

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 02:06 PM ET | Aug 17, 2009

Do two recent studies prove that Twitter is a waste of time? That's the prevailing wisdom -- and here is why it's wrong.

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Twitterbot Tweets Malware Orders

Posted by Keith Ferrell 11:23 AM ET | Aug 17, 2009

The discovery of a Twitter profile being used to tweet botnet updates and link is one more indication (not that we needed one) that cybercriminals are using the same tools that we are.

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Twitter Takedown: DDoS Attack Beats Tweets

Posted by Keith Ferrell 12:14 PM ET | Aug 6, 2009

Twitter was shut down for a couple of hours this morning by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack; blogsite LiveJournal went down too, and the rumors flew that FaceBook was having traffic troubles of its own.

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Business & E-Business | Internet/Web | Messaging | Security | Social Networking

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