Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Man used neighbor's Wi-Fi to threaten U.S. VP Biden A Minnesota man hacked a Wi-Fi network to e-mail death threats to several U.S. politicians. He used Aircrack Wi-Fi cracking software to gain access to his neighbor's WEP-encrypted network, according to prosecutors
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
LiveOffice adds legal hold tool to e-discovery suite E-mail archiving and compliance firm LiveOffice has boosted its flagship e-discovery product by integrating a new cloud-based system for managing legal hold notifications. Find out about the new functionality and what it does
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
E-mail addiction reaches new low Considering that 79 percent of survey respondents admited to sending emails while in the bathroom, disaster recovery software maker Neverfail believes our obsession with keeping in touch with the wokplace has gone a bit too far
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Open Text debuts Outlook solution for lawyers Outlook solutions gives lawyers the 360-degree view of cases
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Platform Computing After a years of adoption in lab settings, high-performance computing is finally branching out of academia and into corporate environments. How IT managers should prepare 
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Enterprise search or Google search? Microsoft's acquisition of FAST raises questions about which works better behind the firewall. 
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
Google brings AIM to Gmail users The search engine giant integrates America Online's popular instant messaging service into its Web-based e-mail client, and will soon offer it in languages other than English
Thursday, December 27, 2007
Security hall of shame lists winners for 2007 A review of the year's notable security mishaps, breaches and meltdowns feature TJX, TD Ameritrade Holding Corp., and others
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Rogers ISP antics rattle net neutrality supporters The Canadian ISP is reportedly about to launch a service that would embed messages about bandwidth use directly onto subscriber's Web pages. Google, Boing Boing and others share their reactions
Monday, December 10, 2007
US tech labs report cyber attack Computer systems at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (http://www.ornl.gov/), an American science and technology lab under the U.S. Department of Energy, has reportedly suffered a cyber attack last week and there were indications other institutions may have also been targets.
Wednesday, October 03, 2007
No more fake Yahoo mails from eBay, PayPal Yahoo Mail has rolled out an e-mail authentication technology that will prevent spam from getting through its users inboxes. The initiative is being done in collaboration with eBay and PayPal
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Gmail zero-day flaw allows attackers to steal messages Accounts on Google Inc.’s Gmail can be easily hacked, allowing any past and future e-mail messages to be forwarded to the attacker’s own in-box.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Ontario Elections: An online kaleidoscope of campaign features The Internet is carrying the campaign strategies of all three major political parties in the run-up to next month's Ontario election, albeit in different ways and to varying degrees. In Part 2 of our Ontario Politics 2.0 series, Toronto-based writer Lydia Perovic looks at the availability and diversity of Web 2.0 features in the context of e-communication and online campaigning.
Monday, July 16, 2007
Tale of an IT hero When Dale Frantz says that his massive migration from Microsoft Windows to the Apple platform isn't a vengeance case, believe him. Over the past few years, I've worked with Frantz closely enough to know not only that the CIO of Auto Warehousing Co. doesn't have a vengeful bone in his body, but also that he means what he says. 
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Lost in space Cheap and plentiful data storage can be both a blessing and a curse. It creates the illusion there is infinite space available for data on networks. This intensifies human pack-rat tendencies to hoard data instead of evaluating what's really needed. All this accumulating data has impacts far beyond storage costs, cascading into all aspects of IT operations and management.
Thursday, April 12, 2007
'Storm Trojan' biggest spam run this year A massive spam outbreak that tries to trick recipients into opening a file attachment that can hijack their computers has already broken records, security companies said Thursday
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Battling the legions of ‘bots and botnets An insidious army of darkness is rampaging across the Internet and taking control of unsuspecting business and personal computers.
Sunday, March 11, 2007
OneCare scores poor grade compared to other security vendors Nearly a year after Microsoft introduced Windows Live OneCare, the company's first foray into the security market is still getting low marks from analysts and users.
Monday, February 12, 2007
Email sparks outrage from womens groups An allegedly racist, sexist e-mail involving a senior government official may cause government employees to think twice before hitting the send button.
Sunday, January 14, 2007
E-ddicted to e-mail? Tips for fighting disempowering e-mail habits Those afflicted with the problem of poor e-mail management can take heart. A productivity expert and coach has designed a program she says will help beleaguered office workers conquer e-mail overload. 
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Junk mail rebounds in full colour Spam messages are getting colourful not to entice users into spammers’ marketing spiels or better trick them into downloading a virus or worm, but to avoid detection by spam filtering tools. 
Thursday, January 04, 2007
James Allchin 'would buy a Mac' Longtime Windows development chief James Allchin wrote in a January 2004 e-mail to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and company co-founder Bill Gates that the software vendor had “lost sight” of customers’ needs and said he would buy a Mac if he wasn’t working for Microsoft.
Thursday, December 21, 2006
Users pleased with improved e-mail management in Outlook 2007 The latest version of Microsoft's Outlook personal information manager adds several key improvements to its e-mail function that beta testers and analysts say are helping early users better cope with ever-growing inboxes. Outlook 2007, has been available to business users since November and will ship to consumers later this month.
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Spam that delivers a pink slip Last month, a handful of employees at Dekalb Medical Center in Decatur, Ga., received e-mails saying they were being laid off. The subject line read “Urgent — employment issue,” and the sender listed on the message was at dekalb.org, which is the domain the medical centre uses. The e-mail contained a link to a Web site that claimed to offer career-counseling information.
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Asia leads spam relay, study says More spam is relayed through Asia than any other continent – a sharp difference from the situation two years ago when the United States accounted for over half of all spam sent to the world.