Two new research reports find that email spoofing attacks are on a steep rise. One of those reports says that businesses in the financial services sector appear to be most vulnerable to having their corporate identities hijacked.

Democrats are challenging the Bush administration’s overtime pay overhaul, saying many white-collar workers will lose premium pay despite election-year promises that the effects will be minimal.

A great deal of information has leaked out over the past few months about an upcoming iPAQ that will offer three different forms of wireless networking: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GSM/GPRS. Now, even more details of the iPAQ h6300 series have emerged.

Soft drinks giant Coca-Cola has signed a deal with Symbol Technologies to roll out 28,000 mobile devices, based on specifications agreed by the two companies, across its European and North American operations.

A Burton Group report suggests that enterprise networks, and the data they safeguard, may be at risk because of unsecured mobile devices.

A security researcher has developed a new attack for a well-known flaw in the TCP protocol that allows an attacker to effectively shut down targeted routers and terminate existing TCP sessions at will.

Researchers have set a data transmission record over the Internet2’s high-speed backbone. The record, announced Tuesday at the Spring 2004 Internet2 member meeting in Arlington, Va., was for transmitting data over nearly 11,000 kilometers at an average speed of 6.25 gigabits per second.

Well, it would seem I forgot to include the link for this story, so let’s try it again. Experts say the best way to deal with the constant barrage of unwanted commercial e-mail, or spam, is to set up several layers of defense at various points in your company’s messaging infrastructure. Conventional thinking holds that the most effective way to avoid spam is to examine the body and subject line of incoming messages with e-mail filtering programs that employ Bayesian logic, which uses knowledge of past behavior to decide which e-mails to accept.

Software vendor Abidia released version 2.5 of the Palm OS version of its wireless auction package. Users can organize, track, and bid on active auctions, review items in their watch list, add new items, and search for auctions or items; view images of items found, check items’ current bid prices, and compare prices in other auctions.

Experts say the best way to deal with the constant barrage of unwanted commercial e-mail, or spam, is to et up several layers of defense at various points in your company’s messaging infrastructure. Conventional thinking holds that the most effective way to avoid spam is to examine the body and subject line of incoming messages with e-mail filtering programs that employ Bayesian logic, which uses knowledge of past behavior to decide which e-mails to accept.