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Friday, July 11, 2003Wi-Fi : Things Hotting UpThings really do appear to be hotting up in the rarified world of Wi-Fi. The provision of wireless hotspots thoughout the the world, according to many analysists variously preaching doon and gloom, no returns for Wi-Fi, to the recent announcemnts by Starbucks that Wi-fi has contributed to their bottom line and Macdonalds announcing that xx outlets within te Sanfrancisco Bay area will have Wi-Fi access by the end of the week. Frank Barnako, CBS.MarketWatch.com 10:23 AM ET Jul 11, 2003 seems to think too that there is somthing in the growth of the technology and that despite the dowsides ther may be some return for those investing now. Its difficult to see this clearly from here, in the NE of England the Macdonald is the .....well low end of the market, wi-fi....why the heck more like. We all may have a great interest in the potential spread of Wi-Fi but the busines model is not well thought out yet. Related Links LinkSys Wi-Fi Setting up a wireless network posted by Robert Campbell 3:58 PM Tuesday, July 08, 2003Pay up Caveat emptor
 The use of SSL certificates is the latest in a long list of scams targeting PayPal users. We have resisted the temptation to profile this story for some time, on the basis that most of our readers are more aware and would not be duped by the obvious scams. However the latest techniques uses a fairly sophisticated SSL mechanism to further obfuscate the deception. The scam is now also being profiled by the Internet Storm Centre who in their own way are a bit like the Kate Aidie of the internet news world, ..if they report it it must be real.Related links PayPal Scam Site Using Legit SSL article by Ryan Naraine PayPal Internet Storm Center (ISC) posted by Robert Campbell 8:09 PM Dead CERT® to catch a coldCERT®Wednesday last week The CERT Coordination Center published Cert® Incident Note IN-2003-01, Malicious Code Propagation and Antivirus Software Updates. Although it looks like it's stating the obvious, ....viruses and other malware are spreading more rapidly and are getting more difficult to trap because of it, it really is a timely reminder that we should all make sure that our AV installations are up to date and secure. The auto update mechanisms for most of our AV systems are of the pull variety, where the AV console regularly, typically once per hour, polls the manufacturer's web site for updates. In many cases this is not enough as variants of the virus may fool what appears to be an up-to-date pattern. Perhaps its time to get out the broadcast update idea again, see satellite safe, or add other layers of filtering and protection like an email firewall. posted by Robert Campbell 2:33 PM PDA security survey - someone's pocketed my data
 John Leyden over at The Register reports on a survey published by Pointsec Mobile Technologies on PDA security. It makes frightening reading, given that at least 25% of lap top and PDA users have lost one or other of their deveices last year. Downloading the company's sales and contact database onto either of these types of devices without some form of access security seems almost like corporate suicide. Yet that's what the survey says most of us do. Some of us even store the PIN numbers and passwords for other sensitive information on the PDA as well! ecommnet recomend the use of some form of encryption for both Lap Top PCs as well as PDAs, and have recently taken on the SafeGuard PDA and SafeGuard Easy products from Utimaco. posted by Robert Campbell 1:59 PM SPAM-Get the message!
 MessageLabs flagged as SPAM by AOL. In a rather unfortunate, [if somewhat hilarious ®©] incident earlier this week the mail systems at MooseheadLads were seen by the filtering systems at AOL as open relays and their subscribers struck dumb. Matt Sergeant, senior anti-spam technologist was reported by Will Sturgeon of ZDNews to have described it a '..a freak occurrence which involved a coming together of a number of unfortunate circumstances.' Industry speak for we sc***ed up good and proper. This just goes to confirm our suspicions here at ecommnet that relying on one provider for all your email defence is no defence at all. ®©
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MessageLabs tagged as a 'spammer'
Business email may escape spam crackdown
BorderWare MXtreme
SPAM to be Cannedposted by Robert Campbell 1:41 PM ACE Developer
 Andrew Ace is ecommnet’s newest member of staff having joined the company at the beginning of June. A recent 1st Class Honours graduate of Portsmouth University Andrew has previously worked with IBM and latterly Realise Ltd. based in London where he worked on the development of the Schroders web site. Andrew’s skill set strengthens ecommnet’s web and business applications development team with technical expertise in Java; SQL; Linux and IBM’s WebSphere platform.posted by Robert Campbell 11:54 AM Monday, July 07, 2003RNIB to take action in UK
 The RNIB is about to take someone [we don't know who yet] to task for failing to make their web site accessible. This is the European Year of Disability, and it look like the RNIB is trying to make headlines at a time when the maximum publicity would be gained. By supporting individuals to bring cases against quote '..a number of firms..' Julie Howell Digital Development Officer of the RNIB confirmed the Institute's active support.
Related Links
The New Media Age Story by Jonathan Webdale
The RNIB website and recomendations for accessible web design
ecommnet's accessibility statementposted by Robert Campbell 5:46 PM SPAM - $0.25 a slice
 independent technology research analysts Nucleus Research have today published their analysis of the effect of SPAM. The bottom line (sic) is '.... the average cost of spam per year per employee is $874.' The calculations are conservative and it doesn't take a degree in mathematics to realise that some form of investment designed to eliminate the effects of unwanted email hitting the employee's inbox will pay dividends. ecommnet has always believed that there is both qualitative and quantitative justification for such investment, now it appears that there is well though out independent evidence to back it up. The leglislation isn't going to help in the short term, if at all, and the uncertainties of leaving core level filtering to your ISP or messaging provider such as Message Labs can not be justified.
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The full report is available at www.NucleusResearch.com
BorderWare MXtreme
SPAM to be Canned
SPAM white paper
The $0.25/slice comes from the average number of SPAM messages received by each employee and the average cost of spam per year per employee is $874 quoted in the report.posted by Robert Campbell 1:13 PM
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