Tuesday, September 14, 2004

German software pirate, and his father, get jail time. The noose appears to be tightening around one of Europe's largest software counterfeiting rings as a German court sentenced a second member of the network to prison on Monday, and handed a sentence to his father for helping run front operations. [InfoWorld: Top News] 2:03:45 PM    comment []

IETF deals Microsoft's e-mail proposal a setback. A proposed technology for identifying the source of e-mail messages suffered a blow last week when a group within the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) established to study the proposal sent it back for more work, citing concerns over vague intellectual property claims made by Microsoft Corp. covering some of the technology. [InfoWorld: Top News] 2:03:30 PM    comment []

3Com marks 25 years; officials praise move to Mass.. Networking equipment vendor 3Com celebrated 25 years in business yesterday and finds itself in the middle of a major turnaround. [Computerworld Network LAN/WAN News] 2:03:17 PM    comment []

Symantec launches antiphishing service. As part of its service, Symantec will use a global network of probes and decoy e-mail accounts to collect, analyze and identify new phishing scams targeted at customers that use its Online Fraud Management services. [Computerworld Cybercrime News] 2:03:04 PM    comment []

Cisco melds add-on features into branch-office routers. Cisco is announcing seven new branch-office routers that integrate a variety of features previously sold as add-ons, and one user said that the all-in-one approach should make it easier to support the devices. [Computerworld Networking News] 2:02:52 PM    comment []

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