No mere nuisance, spam is engulfing corporate e-mail systems like a greedy swarm of locusts and blotting out legitimate business communications. Here’s how to ward off the plague. Lots of
A year ago, Symantec was in the bush leagues of antispam vendors. The company, as part of its mail security software package, offered only a basic spam-blocking feature that guessed
M. Angela Sasse, a professor at University College London who specializes in security, recommends top-to-bottom training in an information-technology department—and higher in the organization. “There has been a tendency to
Here’s a measure of how much people like MailFrontier’s antispam software: Even a customer who says the company misrepresented the terms of its deal with him raves about its product.
Cloudmark claims its software is used at more than 2,000 companies. But the startup may be embroidering the truth: Several of the “corporate customers” touted by Cloudmark do not have
What is it? Free space optics technology is wireless networking that uses light beams instead of radio waves; it’s laser-based optical networking without the fiber optic cable. In corporate networks,
What a company purchases from suppliers of goods or services defines the amount that firm outsources. Innovations in global commerce have lowered the costs and expanded the reach of purchasing
They operate under names such as carderplanet, stealthdivision, darkprofits and the shadowcrew. They buy and sell millions of credit card numbers, social security numbers and identification documents, typically for less
Greg Winholt, chief information officer and controller of fruit beverage maker Sunny Delight, glances at his watch; time is precious. A steady stream of heads poke into his office to
It doesn’t take much to get an organized cybercrime ring going. Below is a list of technologies that the U.S. Secret Service and security experts say have been used by
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