Email & Instant Messaging

The increase in goodwill and general bonhomie experienced by many of us over the festive period will be overshadowed to a degree by a significant increase in the amount of email scams doing the rounds in the lead up to Christmas.

If you think you have a problem with unwanted email, spare a thought for Bill Gates, for the Microsoft chairman reportedly receives around 4 million email messages a day.

There is no doubt that email has some wonderful benefits-it is fast, convenient, is a great way to keep in touch, allows large volumes of information to be transmitted, and can reach many people anywhere in the world-all with the click of a button.

Security experts in Chicago have identified the "window of vulnerability", or signature delay time, as the key way to significantly reduce the high level of email virus outbreaks.

Iron Mountain has bought Connected Corporation in a bid to help protect its customers' through the implementation of compliant information management and new archiving and recovery services.

Much work needs to be done in the corporate email archiving space to make applications more user-friendly, if the results of a new worldwide survey on how workers are coping with the blow out of email messages they have to routinely deal w...

The new NSW draft Workplace Surveillance Bill is being touted as a bridge between the employer and employee that will demand work place respect from workers and fairer treatment by organisations.

Secure email and messaging software provider FrontBridge has broadened its service portfolio in email and instant messaging archiving for regulatory compliance, legal discovery and business continuity purposes through the acquisition of MessageRite.

A new email Bill is being drafted in NSW to create more transparency in the work place so that employees can be told exactly what kind of email surveillance policies are carried out by their employers.

Email security company IronPort Systems has announced a comprehensive plan to support Microsoft's Sender ID, which is designed to reduce the rising tide of spam email by helping the recipient to identify the sender and block unwanted messages.

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