Looks like Purewire has taken a page from AOL’s AIM Fight and have put up Tweet Brawl AIM Fight attempts to determine how popular you are right this second by looking at your online buddies and their online buddies out to the third degree of separation. It actually uses people connected to you so you …
This is interesting. After I wondered yesterday about the applicability of IM security products that ignore social networks, MessageLabs announced the launch of a new public IM security service. The solution does not address any of the problems I mentioned. The press release mentions AOL’s AIM, Yahoo! Mail and Microsoft MSN, but does not mention …
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Beginning yesterday, AIM 6.8 clients couldn’t log in through Symantec IM Manager. This was caused by a change in AOLs SSL certificate for kdc.uas.aol.com and IM Manager could not longer validate the cert. IM Manager is an enterprise IM security and logging product. A workaround is posted on the IM Manager knowledgebase.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/12/AR2008091201211.html?hpid=topnews In 2004 Jeremy Jaynes was convicted under Virginia’s Anti-Spam law for sending 10 million spam emails through AOL servers located in Virginia. Virginia’s Supreme Court has overturned that conviction and struck down the Anti-spam law. “The court unanimously agreed with Jeremy Jaynes’ argument that the law violates the free-speech protections of the First Amendment …
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The latest Symantec IM Manager includes support for AIM 6.8. This is kind of a big change because previously there was no way to support AIM clients that required SSL logins. AIM has provided a method whereby we register our domain names with AOL, so when the AIM 6.8 client attempts to log in, AOL …
Brian Kreb’s Security Fix is reporting AOL is truncating passwords at 8 characters. I think our Solaris servers were doing the same thing until we upgraded to version 10. In fact, here’s a blog entry from the SUN Security Coordinator’s blog claiming that password truncation is a security feature. In other words, its a feature …
The folks over at Movable Type are very proud they they are the technology behind a new website called Its Our Net, sponsored by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL, Haliburton and Enron. It seems to me that these huge companies want to provide big bandwidth items. They dont want the ISPs to stand in the way …
Yahoo and AOL have announced plans for a preferred spammer program, where by a sender can pay fractions of a cent per email and bypass all filters. Its not clear whether this program will actually whitelist unsolicited commercial email or if it will only whitelist valid email from participating companies. This new plan would appear …
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On November 16, AOL added a “AIM Bots” group to AIM users buddy list. This group contained buddies Moviephone and ShoppingBuddy. A popup indicated that the bots had been added, but it was not clear who really added the new buddies or why. Apparently AIM was seeking to promote knowledge about the bots, which are …
Lots of IM Security noise this week. From technews “Your Next IM could be Your network’s last by Gregg Keizer: Facetime is issuing a “Worm Free Guarantee” on tuesday as it released Facetime Auditor 6.5. AFAIK they rely on thresholding to watching clients sending too many messages in a short period of time. When I …