Less than nine months after SurfControl bought BlackSpider, it seems that Websense is buying SurfControl. Wow. Consolidation still rampant in the anti-spam market, eh? BlackSpider is an email- and Web-filtering service. Variously described as "managed", "hosted", "on demand", or "in the cloud", the service competes with the bigger fish such as MessageLabs, ...

Passwords work, users accept them, IT has to deal with them. We all know that authenticating users and controlling access to application data is the logical starting point for corporate security programs. However, a persistent problem which may potentially be the bigger risk to the business are the credentials hard-coded ...

Last week, I wrote about the CEAS 2007 Live Spam Challenge (CEAS is the Conference on Email and Anti-Spam). I opined that fair comparative testing of spam control technologies is extremely difficult, especially when behavioral analysis techniques such as greylisting and OS fingerprinting are part of the spam control technology ...

Cave bucellarii, carpe Thursday’s IT Blogwatch: in which Research In Motion’s BlackBerry network goes down — hard. Not to mention decoding an infrared remote with an electric guitar… Nancy Weil reports: BlackBerry service was mostly restored by late morning Wednesday East Coast time, following a widespread North American outage that started Tuesday ...

The fourth Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS) is planning a bakeoff this year. In the CEAS 2007 Live Spam Challenge, the organizers hope to simultaneously inject a live stream of spam and legitimate email into several spam filters over a 24 hour period. However, fair comparative testing of spam control ...