Joomla! site syndication http://www2.i609.net 2010-09-05T19:35:22+01:00 http://www2.i609.net http://www2.i609.net/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png text/html 2007-07-24T08:20:56+01:00 http://www2.i609.net http://www2.i609.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=64&Itemid=2 ...the PDFs are straight spam replacing the 'images' popular in all the stock tip mail from q1, while the greeting cards are leading you to a site that will attempt to install a bot on your computer. You should be safe as long as you keep your updates current. Both are very hard to filter for (which explains why they are so popular with spammers now) ... Report on email threats: massive botnets spread PDF and malwarePosted on 18 July 2007.Commtouch released its Email Threats Trend Report for the second quarter of 2007, based on the company’s real-time analysis of billions of email messages globally each week. Highlights include: • Spam with PDF attachments was initiated at the end of the second quarter. During one massive attack, PDF-spam comprised 10-15% of global spam messages during a 24-hour period, increasing overall global spam traffic by 30-40%• Spam and viruses have joined forces, using the same botnets to distribute both types of email-borne threats, sometimes even in the same email message• Global spam levels remained high; 85-90% of all global email is spam• Over 60% of spam-sending bots also send malware• Over 300,000 zombies become newly activated each day• Image spam in Q2 dropped to less than 15% of all spam, compared to 30% in the first quarter of 2007Spammers unveiled a new email tactic toward the end of the quarter: PDF spam. This type of spam aims to evade anti-spam filters by disguising itself in a common format: attachments of the familiar Portable Document Format files. This trick helps the junk message pass many anti-spam solutions since it looks like a legitimate email. More details, including samples of PDF spam and spam messages containing malware, are available in the Commtouch Q2 2007 Email Threats Trends Report text/html 2006-08-12T00:00:00+01:00 http://www2.i609.net http://www2.i609.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1&Itemid=2 Your company is growing and you want an interactive, dynamic website but don't know where to start. If you hire a firm to do it, what happens when you want to edit it a couple months down the road? Or what if you want to update the contents every day or week? The answer is a site you own and a CMS System to maintain it. You may have heard the phrase thrown around in the media, but how does it relate to your business? Simply put, a content management system (CMS) is a system used to manage the content of a web site, without the necessity of an in depth knowledge of HTML and web programming languages.If you've read anything at all about Content Management Systems (CMS), you'll probably know at least three things: CMS are the most exciting way to do business, CMS can be really, I mean really, complicated and lastly Portals are absolutely, outrageously, often unaffordably expensive. text/html 2007-01-02T12:21:20+01:00 http://www2.i609.net http://www2.i609.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=48&Itemid=2 ...with Remote PC Control> View the PDF now (http://itsolutions.forbes.com/forbes/ActivityServlet?ksAction=optInReq solId=83799 referer=DOCUMENT_ABSTRACT_PAGE trkpg=abstract_related_gotodoctop)Published on: July 2006Type of content: VENDOR WHITE PAPERFormat: Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) (230 kb) Length: 11 pages Price: FREE Overview:The growth of the mobile and remote workforce has made responsibility for remote support complex and strained for IT professionals. According to an October 2005 analysis done by IDC, the number of remote and mobile workers reached 650 million worldwide in 2004. IDC predicts that, over the next five years, that number will reach 850 million - more than one quarter of the global workforce. The remote workforce, while once a trend, is now the reality support professionals must face.In an effort to reduce costs, increase efficiency and serve the growing pool of remote end-users, more and more companies are adding web-based and self-service technologies such as FAQs, knowledge bases and download centers to their remote support options. Over 65% also offer email auto- response/suggest, and nearly 59% offer knowledge bases.Phone support has become less popular with end-users; outsourcing support has its own complexities, risks and costs; and while implementations of online self-help and email support have increased, self-help methods are not end-users' support options of choice. And although in-person support gives support professionals direct access to the problem and allows them to troubleshoot deeply without the convoluted process of deciphering an end-user's description of his issue, this support method is expensive, time consuming and impractical in the new mobile marketplace. Traditional models of remote support are losing ground.One remote support method, however, is gaining in popularity. According to PC Magazine's 18th Annual Reader Satisfaction Survey, remote PC control has a satisfaction rate higher than any other support contact type for mobile workers using laptops and is running a close second to in-person support for remote workers using desktops.This growing preference for remote control is indicative of the effectiveness of this support method. Like in-person support, remote PC control gives a support professional direct access to the user's problem. On the other hand, the expense of in-person support, the complexity of phone support and the tedium of knowledge-bases and email support methods are eliminated with remote PC control.There is no question that remote PC control is the future of support and will soon be expected by end-users. But is it right for your company, and, if so, which product best suits your technical and financial requirements? As these issues move to the top of the CEO/CFO agenda, being able to make the business case has been added to the job qualifications of IT professionals and support managers. All rights reserved, www.forbes.com (http://www.forbes.com/) text/html 2006-06-01T13:22:34+01:00 http://www2.i609.net http://www2.i609.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=44&Itemid=9 ...Or, Use a Typewriter and Burn the Ribbon.Hey, did you know that Google is the only one of the Big 3 search companies to refuse a recent US subpoena for a list of their search terms (it had something to do with Homeland Security)? Well, what do you have to worry about if you have nothing to hide, right? I certainly don’t, but I still think I’ll wait on this product.Consider this if you have or are thinking about using Google Desktop, the cool tool that indexes all file types on your hard drive including email and pictures and everything else for instant querying by Google like searches from any PC in the world: it really works, and it’s really cool, but one of it’s key features known as ‘Search Across Computers’, conveniently moves copies of all your hard drive user files onto A GOOGLE SERVER. Of course, says Google, the benefits of sophisticated search options outweigh any security issues.Although the privacy advocates Electronic Frontier Foundation (http://www.eff.org) and many corporate IT administrators are warning users not to use the product, a Google spokeswoman reassuringly affirmed that “privacy was an important consideration in the development of this feature”. She pointed out that the feature is switched off by default when users first install the software and that they have to opt in on all the computers they use. Data is stored only temporarily on Google's servers. A permanent copy is saved on the user's hard drives.Well, golly, the permanent copy is on the user’s hard drive. How considerate. My recommendation? Keep using Google.com (there’s no great danger there) but stay clear of the new Desktop Search product unless you really want Google storing a copy of your or your company’s data. Beware—it comes as a default download when you upgrade your Java Virtual Machine software. If you (or your company) truly have nothing to hide, then go for it. But you might want to ask the CEO about it first.