Too many users fail to include email in their disaster recovery planning because of cost, claims Mirapoint as it announces a remote site replication plan for its mail, calendar and security appliances, which compete with Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes.
A bug in Windows Vista’s built-in email program can be used by hackers to run malicious code on a victimised PC, according to a researcher who last month touted an exploit-for-sale service.
TelstraClear has completed a year-long, $3.5 million integration and upgrade to its email systems bringing all services onto a standard resilient platform — and cutting spam in the process.
A US court ruling stating emails exchanged between a Kiwi software executive and his legal adviser are not privileged communications is probably correct, says a local legal expert.
Customer relationship management software vendor StayinFront is suing a former Kiwi executive vice-president for punitive damages, after he instituted grievance proceedings against the company with the Employment Relations Authority.
It has been less than a week since Apple introduced its iPhone, but corporate email users hoping to land the device as a client for real-time remote access better think again.
The emails that form the basis of researcher Nicky Hager’s book The Hollow Men, which forced National Party leader Don Brash to resign, could well trigger the country’s first prosecution for theft of email.
Spam, viruses and phishing attacks are a serious threat to your company’s security and your customers’ privacy. The most effective attacks are precisely targeted using traffic analysis, bulk message delivery, compromised web hosts, surreptitiously installed key loggers and large doses of social engineering.
I was at a function recently where one of the attendees was moaning about his manager. The problem he had with her was not a lack of communication; rather, it was the way she communicated. Everything was sent via email — even if it was a reprimand, a complex set of instructions for a project or a personal matter.
People in business are being buried in internal and external communications that come by email, voicemail, messages and memos.
It goes without saying that email has changed the way the world communicates. I get more emails by far than I do letters delivered the old-fashioned way. That said, there’s one aspect of email that many of us overlook at our peril, and that’s the information we put in our messages.
Nearly half of the 1,700 IT managers polled in a pan-European survey do not receive guidelines on which emails should and shouldn’t be saved.
Mozilla has released the latest version of its email client with a host of new features, including better security, automatic updating and other enhancements aimed at providing a more user-friendly email experience, according to the company.
Who says the email security market is overfunded? Certainly not Sequoia Capital, which led a whopping US$40 million (NZ$57 million) investment in messaging appliance maker Barracuda Networks in a deal that was announced on Monday.
Wellington-based enterprise email archiving provider Aftermail has been bought by listed US software company Quest Software for US$45 million.