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Realtime Messaging and Web Security
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The Realtime Messaging and Web Security Community is an objective source for security information related to email, instant messaging, content filtering and related services. The community provides a wide range of resources including blogs, articles, white papers, forums and podcast as well as links to external resources. Topics range from technical details of threats and vulnerabilities to best practices and procedures for protecting messaging and web infrastructures.
Recent Posts
Low-Tech Attacks on The Rise
Phishers are re-working old attacks and coming up with some variations on past attacks as they continue to try to scam social networking site users. This isn't new, but as Symantec points out, the attacks are on the rise. ...
Risks of Consolidation
Consolidating account information in a single service is appealing - log into one place and get a snap shot of your financial state. Sounds good in theory, but the practice went wrong for Rudder, a free personal financial service. ...
New Technique for Denying Denial of Service Attacks
Denial of service attacks that flood a site with requests can be blunted by blocking users sending large number of requests. More advanced techniques send a small number of resource intensive requests. Researchers at IBM and Georgia Institute of Tech...
Business Needs to Get Out Ahead of Security Regulation
An interesting quote in a USA Today story on security company acquisitions speaks to the increasing level of concern about current levels of information security. ...
More on Facebook Phishing
Symantec has been following the trends in Facebook phishing and the current wave of attacks looks similar to previous ones. Of course no one goes to this much trouble to vandalize Facebook pages, there is money to be made (stolen) at the end of the g...
Key to Online Apps Success: Control, Control, Control
BusinessWeek asks what's Holding back Google Apps?. The answer is the same thing that always kills deals to move corporate data to the cloud: control. ...

