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Does email security keep you up at night?
Some new survey results came to me last week and took me a little bit by surprise: Out of 830 IT, security, compliance and legal professionals, the majority perceive employees' regular email use as a
Microsoft adds hacked account reporting to Hotmail
Microsoft ( NASDAQ: MSFT ) is moving to better protect Hotmail users from hackers and scammers. To address the problem of poor passwords, the company says it will start evaluating passwords selected by
Google fortifies Gmail security after hack
Gmail users may have noticed that the popular webmail service enables encryption by default, automatically forwarding users to the secure version of the site. However, they've been free to visit the
Phishers go after White House officials' Gmail accounts
Hackers in China who broke into Gmail accounts last week were going after White House users, among others, The Wall Street Journal reported. The phishing attack was particularly alarming because some
Symantec: Retailers hit hard by malicious email
Over the past month, the retail industry became the sector hit hardest by targeted email attacks, beating out the public sector and pharmaceutical business, according to a report from Symantec.
Alleged Apple fraudster done in by email
The former Apple ( NASDAQ: AAPL ) manager, indicted on charges of wire fraud this month, was allegedly done in by an email cache discovered on his laptop. Paul Shim Devine, who is charged with taking
Keys to the Boston Celtics' information security
For the Boston Celtics' IT chief, one of the biggest information security challenges resembles that of many businesses: How to deal with the vulnerability of personal data, customers' credit card
Shocking fact: 12 percent of email users tried to buy products from spam
A new study released by the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group, or MAAWG has revealed a shocking fact: 12 percent of Internet users have actually confessed to responding to a product or service
Spam turns 30
Spam, the bane of every office and personal email system, celebrated its 30th birthday on May 3 and as every CIO knows, age hasn't stopped the scourge from remaining ubiquitous. Microsoft founder
Google tries to sneak one past IT
During the last year, we've seen Google slowly sneaking into the enterprise, with a series of solutions that bring the company's web-based consumer technologies into a corporate environment.
