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• How to avoid 5 common email management mistakes

  By Susan Perschke | 21 May, 2012 14:29

  Email managers have a lot at stake. After all, the volume of global electronic messages sent via email dwarfs all other forms of electronic communication, including social networking. Since the inception of electronic mail, which, according to some Internet historians, can be traced to a small mainframe app called 'MAILBOX' from the mid-1960s, human-to-human messages have been created, transmitted and stored in electronic format. But early email administrators could hardly have envisioned the complexity of current email infrastructure and the concomitant maze of technical, security, business and regulatory challenges.

• India overtakes U.S. as the world's top email spam source

  By Lucian Constantin | 24 April, 2012 22:51

  The volume of email spam that originated from India during the first three months of 2012 exceeded the volume coming from the U.S. and transformed the Asian country into the world's top spam source, security firm Sophos said on Monday.

• Google restores interoperability with AOL AIM

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 15 March, 2012 04:09

  Google and AOL have restored the interoperability between their two instant messaging (IM) networks, a little over two weeks after it was temporarily suspended due to a spam flood originating in AOL's AIM that affected Gmail Chat and Google Talk users.

• McAfee unveils new mobile security tools

  By Tony Bradley | 28 February, 2012 08:04

  McAfee used the venue of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as an opportunity to announce new techniques and tools for protecting mobile devices, data, and apps. Mobile devices are a huge target for malware and cyber attackers, and McAfee wants to ensure organizations have the tools to use the mobile devices securely.

• Researchers defeat video CAPTCHA antispam tests

  By Lucian Constantin | 22 February, 2012 01:03

  A team of researchers has devised a method to defeat NuCaptcha, one of the most popular video-based antispam tests on the Internet, and have proposed a solution to increase its resilience to attacks.

• Download InfoWorld's Malware Deep Dive report

  By InfoWorld staff | 16 February, 2012 01:43

  If malware were biological, the world would be in the grip of the worst pandemic in history. In 2009, more than 25 million unique malware programs were identified, more than all the malware programs ever created in all previous years. No one need wonder what all that malware is trying to do: It's trying to steal money -- through data theft, bank transfers, stolen passwords, or swiped identities.

• How the Phoenix Suns basketball team takes on social media attacks

  By Ellen Messmer | 11 February, 2012 07:31

  Every sport has its fans, and the Phoenix Suns basketball team is finding that use of social networking has become one of the main ways to keep in touch with its fan base -- though it can get dicey when basketball fans across the NBA go a little wild before big games.

• Industry group makes fresh push to eliminate phishing

  By Jeremy Kirk | 30 January, 2012 23:30

  Companies such as Facebook, Google and PayPal are pushing for widespread use of a new technical specification, DMARC, that could make it harder for phishers to reach their victims.

• 2012 Outlook: The end of everything?

  By Mark Gibbs | 09 January, 2012 16:30

  Welcome to 2012, the year the world ends. Yes, in case you haven't been following the eschatologists out there (and most of them are definitely "out there"), 2012 will be "it" for humanity. The "last hurrah". Fini. Au revoir.

• Naval researchers pioneer TCP-based spam detection

  By Joab Jackson | 24 December, 2011 08:39

  A group of researchers from the U.S. Naval Academy has developed a technique for analyzing email traffic in real-time to identify spam messages as they come across the wire, simply using information from the TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) packets that carry the messages.

• IBM predicts five big technologies of the future

  By Michael Cooney | 21 December, 2011 08:31

  IBM today issued its sixth annual look at what Big Blue thinks will be the five biggest technologies for the next five years. In past prediction packages the company has had some success in predicting the future of telemedicine and nanotechnology.

• IBM Predicts the Next Five Years in Tech

  By John P. Mello Jr. | 20 December, 2011 13:35

  Every year, IBM picks five technologies that it predicts are going to change our lives in the next five years. This year's crop of life changers includes efficient capture of renewable energy, proliferation of biometric identification to authenticate your identity, control of machines with your mind, elimination of the digital divide and the end of spam.

• Warning: Tips for secure mobile holiday shopping

  By Tony Bradley | 07 December, 2011 04:10

  I’m dating myself, but I remember when holiday shopping involved pouring through ads in the Sunday paper, placing actual phone calls from tethered land lines to research product stock and availability, and actually driving places to pick things up. Now, holiday shoppers can do all of that from a smartphone or tablet in a few seconds, but there are some security pitfalls to be aware of.

• UK cracks down on claims industry SMS spam

  By Jeremy Kirk | 09 December, 2011 01:26

  Text-message spam is coming under close scrutiny from the U.K.'s data protection authority, which is trying to blunt an increasing wave of insurance industry and accident compensation-related spam.

• Yahoo awarded $610 million in spam case

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 08 December, 2011 09:08

  Yahoo has won a lawsuit against spammers, a legal victory that also includes a default judgment of US$610 million.