Topic: Email address

21 May 2008

Symantec denies blame for XP SP3 problem

By Gregg Keizer, Computerworld (US)

Symantec has denied that its consumer security software, including Norton Internet Security and Norton 360, is to blame for wreaking havoc on some users' PCs after they upgraded to Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3). Read more...

04 July 2008

Meet the UK's most spammed consumer

By John E. Dunn

The future is bright, but spammy. A dubious first for UK mobile-to-broadband network, Orange, which has claimed to title of hosting the most spammed email account in the UK. Read more...

07 July 2008

The next security worry - the photocopier

By John E. Dunn, Techworld

For a small but growing number of large UK organisations, the photocopier, and its partner in crime, the networked printer, are wide-open doors. Read more...

07 June 2007

Understanding data virtualisation and optimisation

By David Cartwright, Techworld

One of the toughest tasks facing any organisation that is moving to an SOA approach is making use of data that is stored in a variety of repositories. But when you can access data from multiple data sources, it's a powerful tool. Read more...

01 November 2005

Busting the botnet-herders

By Stefan Hammond, Computerworld

Botnets have turned into a major security problem, says Mikko Hyppönen of anti-virus company F-Secure. We mull this and other issues in this interview. Read more...

19 April 2007

Free Practical Do's and Don'ts Guide to Spam

By Star Technology

Spammers have many ways of collecting and identifying email addresses ? from harvesting them and buying them, to launching dictionary style attacks. It may never be possible to hide from the spammers completely, but read these free tips that every email user can use to try and guard their email address and subsequently their inbox. Read more...

16 February 2008

PacketTrap pt360 Tool Suite

By David Cartwright, Techworld

• List price: Commercial version: US$1,4990 although there is a free version
• Pros: Good range of features in the free version; Very nice GUI
• Cons: Commercial version strikes us as a tad expensive, though the $/£ exchange rate mitigates this to an extent at the time of writing. Read more...

27 July 2007

Limiting what contractors can do on the network

By Andre Gold, Network World

Contractors represent a unique security challenge: How do you restrict their network access, without making them feel unwanted? Read more...

13 May 2004

Security? What does Microsoft know about security?

By David Charles

If the IT industry's marketing departments weren't so devoid of any talent, maybe one of the PC vendors would break the mould and install security patches before they ship the hardware. I'm not holding my breath. Read more...