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TechNewsWorld: Outsourcing Network Protection: An Interview with MessageLabs CTO Mark Sunner
08-Dec-03 7:45 ET
Story Highlights:
"The past year has had no shortage of costly and complicating computer viruses and worms. To talk about the tactical advantages associated with outsourcing the battle against malware and junk e-mail, TechNewsWorld turned to MessageLabs CTO Mark Sunner for an exclusive interview."
ComputerWeekly.com: Yahoo Airs Antispam Initiative
08-Dec-03 11:29 ET
Story Highlights:
"Yahoo has developed a system which, it claims will go a long way toward curbing spam, but the technology's success 
is dependent on its widespread industry adoption beyond the borders of Yahoo's e-mail servers. The aim is to stop the spammers' practice of spoofing, or changing an e-mail message's header information so it appears to have been sent by someone else."
Full Story on ComputerWeekly.com
The Register: NatWest Warns of Dodgy Email
08-Dec-03 9:08 ET
Story Highlights:
" NatWest has warned people to ignore an email calling for punters to disclose private information about their bank accounts. The email -- the latest in a series supposedly from UK banks seeking to con people into disclosing personal information -- has apparently been sent randomly to both customers and non customers of NatWest."
Australian IT: China Orders Homegrown Encryption
05-Dec-03 10:45 ET
Story Highlights:
"China has ordered computer makers, both at home and overseas, to use its own encryption standard for wireless local area networks, ensuring stronger government control and giving domestic manufacturers a respite from some foreign competition. The new rules ban the importation and sale of all equipment used in wireless LANs -- so-called WiFi services increasingly used to provide internet connections in public spaces like hotels and cafes -- that does not comply with China's new standard."
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