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Instant Messaging Planet, September 25, 2007 |
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IM Watch: Presidential Candidates to Appear via IM |
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IM Security Highlights & Research Trends |
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NetworkWorld.com, September 24, 2007 |
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Use digital certificates to authenticate IM users |
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Presensoft IM Caller ID provides authentication of IM users via digital certificates |
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NetworkWorld.com, September 24, 2007 |
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IM gets Caller ID feature from Presensoft |
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Security vendor Presensoft Monday unveiled a caller ID system for instant messaging that uses certificates to validate the identity of the users on either end of a connection over public IM networks. |
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eWEEK.com, August 7,
2007 |
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Symantec
Aims to Automate Electronic Evidence
Collection |
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News: Symantec is joining the wave
of companies introducing e-discovery
tools for compliance and evidence gathering. |
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eWEEK.com, August 6,
2007 |
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Survey:
Cost of Cybercrime Reaches $7 Billion |
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A new study has put a price tag of
more than $7 billion on the financial
suffering experienced by victims of
Internet fraud and attacks. |
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eWEEK.com, July 6,2007 |
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News:
Security Is 'Kid' Stuff |
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It takes a thief to catch a thief,
or so the adage goes. It's not clear
how this plays out in the general crime-fighting
world, but it's true when it comes to
securing IT assets. |
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IT Business Edge, June
19, 2007 |
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The
HIPAA Audit Will Come: Be Prepared |
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We've read that one of the biggest
problems with the Health Insurance Portability
and Accountability Act is the lack of
enforcement. Does the HIPAA audit of
Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta by the
U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services indicate a move to change that,
in your opinion? |
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CNET News.com, June
27, 2007 |
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The
risk of ignoring e-discovery obligations |
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The failure to produce required electronic
discovery can have serious consequences.
This was borne out by a $1.25 million
sanction just issued by a New York federal
judge against two law firms and the
insurer they represented. |
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PC Mag.com, June 20,
2007 |
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British
Game Board Bans First Game in 10 Years |
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British censors banned a video game
for the first time in 10 years, rejecting
U.S.-published "Manhunt 2"
for what they described as an unrelenting
focus on sadism and brutal slaying. |
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Computer world.com,
June 19, 2007 |
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Report:
When to buy cyber insurance to help
protect your data |
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Can 'cyberinsurance' protect you from
data breach catastrophe? |
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eWEEK.com, June 15,
2007 |
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News:
A Healthy Dose of RFID Technology |
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An MIT-SAP project uses the pharmaceutical
industry to test proposals for using
RFID technology to track products. |
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eWEEK.com, May 24, 2007 |
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Analysis:
Health Care Gets a Better IT Prescription |
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Top vendors are putting more money
and research into creating solutions
to address issues from the ER to the
doctor's house to the patient's home. |
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PC Mag.com, May 21,
2007 |
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Security
Watch: Which Banks Have the Most Domain
Squatters? |
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Phishing is dangerous—especially
when we're utilizing online banking.
We pay bills, transfer money, and manage
our funds online, and many of us don't
give it a second thought. But there
is reason for concern: A study of cybersquatting
domains conducted by CitizenHawk has
determined which banks are the biggest
targets. Over 10,000 phony domains were
found for the ten largest banks. To
find out which banks and domains you
should watch out for, read this week's Security
Watch newsletter. |
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Fierce CIO, May 2,2007 |
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Survey:
Beware social networking sites |
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According to a recent survey conducted
during the recent Storage Networking
World Conference, CIOs should be extremely
wary of employees using company computers
to access social networking sites like
Second Life and MySpace, as well as
using instant messaging technology. |
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IT-Wireless, April 22,
2007 |
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Text
messaging moves up |
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Circumstances and technology are changing
in tandem to make text messaging an
increasingly important part of an organization's
communications strategy. In the wake
of the tragedy at Virginia Tech, organizations
are taking a more urgent look at messaging
technology to meet the needs of emergency
notification and communications with
employees and students. For more on
text messaging in urgent communications:
Read the
analysis at eWeek. |
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eWEEK.com, April 20,
2007 |
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Analysis:
To Encrypt or Not to Encrypt |
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That is the question when planning
for removable storage. |
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Baseline, April 9, 2007 |
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What
Are Your Employees Doing at Work? |
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Washington Trust Bank couldn't tell
whether workers were downloading confidential
information to thumb drives. Learn
what it did to plug that security risk. |
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PC Mag.com, April 4,
2007 |
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Companies
Combine URL Filter, Proxy Blocking |
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DeepNines Technologies and SurfControl
join forces for a CIPA compliance tool
aimed at schools. Read
this story. |
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InstantMessagingPlanet.com,
March 20, 2007 |
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IM
Watch: Cisco Enters Enterprise RTC Market |
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IBM and Cisco pair up for real-time
communication and unify support offerings.
Also: Microsoft preps a beta release
of Office Communications Server 2007,
AIM introduces a location-reporting
plug-in for its IM client, and Mundu
rolls out cross-network chat for smartphones. |
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Computerworld, March
20, 2007 |
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Enterprise IM strategies |
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http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/1366529/56237654/55628/2/ |
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Baseline, March 12,
2007 |
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Businesses
That Lose Customer Data May Have To
Cover The Costs |
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Identity theft keeps growing, according
to a survey released by Gartner, and
more people think businesses that are
breached should pay. |
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eWEEK.com, March 7,2007 |
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News:
Report: Some Companies Lose Data Six
Times a Year |
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Sixty-eight percent of companies are
losing sensitive data or having it stolen
out from under them six times a year,
according to new research from the IT
Policy Compliance Group. |
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eWEEK.com, February
27,2007 |
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Daylight-Saving
Time Change: Bigger than Y2K? |
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IT shops have had less notice in dealing
with the time change than they did for
Y2K--which had much more visibility
at the highest levels of their organizations. Get
the complete report |
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Ziffdavis.com, February
15,2007 |
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Trends
in Identity Theft |
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For the seventh year in a row, identity
theft tops the FTC's Annual List of
Top Consumer Complaints. Read
more... |
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Presensoft.com, February
15, 2007 |
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2007
Daylight Saving Time Remediation |
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Daylight Saving Time has been extended
by approximately 4 weeks this year as
per the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Get
the complete report |
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eWEEK.com, February
15, 2007 |
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News:
'Storm' Worm Touches Down on IM |
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A new variant of January's "Storm"
worm, which sent countless spam e-mails
worldwide, takes advantage of instant
messaging systems to propagate. Get
the complete report |
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eWEEK.com, February
14, 2007 |
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News:
Survey Shows More Evidence of Trend
Toward Online Storage |
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Storage, security and data recovery
will be the top spending priorities
for IT managed services customers in
2007, CompTIA research reveals. Learn
more |
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eWEEK.com, February
13, 2007 |
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Yahoo
Mail Offers Instant Messaging Inside
E-Mail |
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Yahoo embeds instant messaging features
inside its e-mail program, bridging
a generational divide that has confused
many users. Yahoo is in effect moving
the mountain of its 250 million Yahoo
Mail users by eliminating
the elusive technical distinctions that have separated the two modes of
communication. |
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BizReport, January 24,
2007 |
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Experts
Say Email Will Be Default Communication
For Confidential Data By 2009 |
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Email will be the default communications
option for confidential mail by 2009,
according to a survey of attendees at
the ISPA's annual Parliamentary Advisory
Forum in London. The event, is targeted
to topics concerning personal Internet
security, gave options to government
bodies and European service providers
on how best to protect their users online. |
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Network World, January
04, 2007 |
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http://www.networkworld.com/research/2007/010807-collaboration.html?ts0hb=&story=collab |
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"The Presence Payoff: Companies
are using collaboration and presence
tools to make decision faster, cut development
time and save money." |
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CNET News.com, December
15, 2006 |
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Yahoo
Messenger gets security update |
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Aimed at flaws in software that downloads
with Messenger, update is called "highly
critical" by Yahoo. |
