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Symantec to launch security e-mail appliance
Security software giant Symantec is expected to announce Monday it will enter the security e-mail appliance market, expanding the competitive landscape that also includes its current partner IronPort. Read more »
A shifting landscape for e-mail security
Cisco Systems' purchase of e-mail security specialist IronPort Systems is another sign that big-name vendors are taking over the spam fight, analysts say. Read more »
US Homeland Security e-mail gaffe exposes secrets
A technical contractor may have started a chain of events that led to security professionals divulging classified information Read more »
Alliance turns up heat on spam
Yahoo, Microsoft, Comcast and others announced a proposal of best practices for filtering and sending e-mail. Read more »
Beware of bogus Microsoft security bulletins
Organisations are being warned to be on the lookout for fake Microsoft security bulletins which spammers sent out yesterday to thousands of companies in the US and the UK. Read more »
Google launches local hosted security service
Google has launched a hosted security service for enterprise customers in Australia, a re-branded version of the Postini service it acquired last year. Read more »
US Homeland Security still infected with Trojans?
The man in charge of IT security for the US Homeland Security department may lose his job after the revelations that his department's IT systems have misconfigured firewalls, suspicious botnet activity, trojans and virus infections. Read more »
Security flaws found in fix for Firefox, SeaMonkey
Mozilla Foundation earlier this week issued a critical fix designed to address vulnerabilities in a recent security update for the Firefox browser and SeaMonkey application suite. Read more »
Web threats to surpass e-mail pests
By next year, Internet users can expect more cyberattacks to originate from the Web than via e-mail, security firm Trend Micro predicts. Read more »
Seek.com.au targeted by e-mail harvesting tool
Security researchers have discovered an e-mail harvesting tool that was pre-configured to target Seek.com.au's candidate database — but a Seek executive claims its database is immune to such an attack. Read more »
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Build your own automated response system in Perl
The ability to automatically read and respond to e-mail with appropriate commands helps you monitor enterprise apps. Here's how. Read more »
Send email alerts when errors are written to the event log
It is common for applications to write to the Windows Event Log when errors occur or a warning is issued, and with the advent of the .NET Framework, Microsoft has provided developers with built-in functionality to read and write data to or from the event log. Read more »
Sending e-mail from an Oracle database with utl_smtp
If you're running Oracle 10g or later, you can use the nice modern utl_mail package to send e-mails from your PL/SQL applications. If you're running an earlier version of Oracle, you can send e-mails via the older and more complicated utl_smtp package. Read more »
Cyber-bludging special: Acceptable usage
There's no shortage of tools to monitor and filter employees' use of the Internet and IT resources. Read more »
Who is responsible for security?
A flurry of worm and viral activity on the Internet raises a question more important than who to blame: What do we do about it? Read more »
Securing Mac OS X
While OS X is secure out of the box, the following tips will help you determine whether your configuration is consistent with your needs. Read more »
Allocate adequate funds to protect your network
When it comes to security, companies get what they pay for. Here is a recent troubleshooting experience and explanation of why there should be no room for exceptions in your security budget. Read more »
Authenticate clients and e-transactions with SSL certificate authority
Secure Sockets Layer technology ensures that transactions are encrypted and safe from outside influences. Get the basics of setting up SSL Certificates of Authentication. Read more »
Set up Web-based e-mail quickly using SquirrelMail
A good alternative to a traditional client/server-based e-mail solution is to simply set up one that's Web-based. In this article, Jack Wallen shows how to configure Web-based e-mail quickly and easily using SquirrelMail. Read more »
New security flaw in Outlook, IE
A Danish security researcher has warned that a recently discovered software flaw could leave user's systems open to malicious code carried on Web pages or in e-mails. Read more »
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A new coat of varnish
-- This week featured plenty of coverage from the various conferences occurring around the country. All the while Builder's design gnomes were busy give the site a touch-up. Read more »
Targeted for hacking by reporters at my table
-- I should have known it was only a matter of time. I've been covering security conferences on and off for about 14 years and considered myself lucky not to have been hacked, that I knew of. Until Thursday. Read more »
Breaking inside out
-- Security gets more complicated yet social engineering remains the same threat as ever. Read more »
Is public domain software open-source?
-- When writing earlier this week about Adobe's sponsoring of the SQLite project, I ran into a complicated issue: is software released into the public domain also open-source software? Read more »
Technology that will still suck in '07
-- As another year begins I thought I'd compile a short list of technology I think will still suck in 2007. Read more »
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In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »
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Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5
Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »
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BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continueAttending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »
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Interplanetary Internet a possibility
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Conroy ducks, Ballmer evades and Android Fails -- Club Builder
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Yang's resignation: The talk of Silicon Valley
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Conroy ducks, Ballmer evades and Android Fails -- Club Builder
Club Builder this week takes a long look at Senator Conroy's recent attempt to explain his Great Firewall of Australia, we chase Steve Ballmer over Sydney, and find Google's biggest bug of the year.