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their use seems to be cost. Surprisingly nearly a third of the respondents admitted to not having even heard of an intranet. Conditions for acceptance of intranets into the marketplace are encouraging: BT, operating one of the largest intranets in Europe, estimates saving $305 million in 1996. Most companies recognize the need to increase internal communications and increase the flow of information around the business. The study also revealed that in the UK 48% of employees now use PCs and of those, two-thirds are connected to local area networks. These figures, however. lag behind those of the US, Sweden and Germany.
Networks flooded with E-mail messages Electronic mail administrators are finding that hackers attacks are not the only source of E-mail floods that are swamping their servers. Reports Computerworld, whether the messages are external advertizing ‘spams’ on internal mass mailings, the ever increasing volume of messages is causing lengthy delays and even network crashes. For example, the mail servers at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA recently went down for about five hours after another company E-mailed the College’s students about summer jobs. The spam wasn’t intentionally a malicious attack, but the results were much the same. Five members of the College’s staff were for tied up until late in the evening trying to stem the tide and get the server back online. Another spam target was Brown University in Providence, Rhode
May 7997
Island, USA, but there network monitoring helped stem the flood. Many universities make their user lists publicly available on the Internet, so they are more vulnerable to external mail floods, and many don’t have firewalls that can control incoming network traffic.
Sydney, Australia and Tokyo, Japan, In addition, a series of SARC Rapid Response Units will be set up through agreements with third party organizations to provide localized support and a 24-hour call out service to
In the private industry, where access to user lists is in many cases tightly controlled and firewall technology is more widespread, external spamming is less of a problem.However, the problems of internal mass mailings still exist. A Boston firm‘s server crashed after employees E-mailed one another with copies of a popular screen saver, The problem was solved when the company placed the program on a server and told its employees to download it from there instead of E-mailing it to one another. Some corporate network administrators institute policies that limit internal mass mailings. Others just try to encourage voluntary restraint.
These Raipd Response Units are being recruited to provide local presence in every major European country within the next 12 months. These units will be a combination of commercial organizations and non-commercial bodies such as universities.
NY Global anti-virus research programme launched Symantec has plans to create a global network of virus research centres to identify and collect local viruses and contribute to product development. The company has invested more than $6 million in a series of Symentec Antivirus Research Centres @ARC) spread across the world and based on its Santa Monica facility in California, USA. SARCs will open in Leiden in the Netherlands,
companies
infected with viruses.
For further information, contact Richard Saunders, Symantec on: +44 1628 592384; E-mail: [email protected].
Integrated network security products Pretty Good Privacy and Schlumberger Electronic Transactions have announced a strategic alliance for the development and marketing of integrated network security products. The companies will develop and market products that ‘integrate Pretty Good Privacy’s (PGP) powerful encryption technology with cryptographic smartcards from Schlumberger. The companies hope that the combined products will provide high levels of communications security across corporate intranets and the Internet, coupled with the convenience of a smartcard. For further information, contact lsabelle Fefdane-Coudefc, Schlumberger Electronic Transactions on: +33 I 47 46 70 20; fax: +33 I 47 46 68 66; E-mail: ferdune@montrouge,et,s/b.com.
01997
Elsevier Science Ltd
their use seems to be cost. Surprisingly nearly a third of the respondents admitted to not having even heard of an intranet. Conditions for acceptance of intranets into the marketplace are encouraging: BT, operating one of the largest intranets in Europe, estimates saving $305 million in 1996. Most companies recognize the need to increase internal communications and increase the flow of information around the business. The study also revealed that in the UK 48% of employees now use PCs and of those, two-thirds are connected to local area networks. These figures, however. lag behind those of the US, Sweden and Germany.
Networks flooded with E-mail messages Electronic mail administrators are finding that hackers attacks are not the only source of E-mail floods that are swamping their servers. Reports Computerworld, whether the messages are external advertizing ‘spams’ on internal mass mailings, the ever increasing volume of messages is causing lengthy delays and even network crashes. For example, the mail servers at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA recently went down for about five hours after another company E-mailed the College’s students about summer jobs. The spam wasn’t intentionally a malicious attack, but the results were much the same. Five members of the College’s staff were for tied up until late in the evening trying to stem the tide and get the server back online. Another spam target was Brown University in Providence, Rhode
May 7997
Island, USA, but there network monitoring helped stem the flood. Many universities make their user lists publicly available on the Internet, so they are more vulnerable to external mail floods, and many don’t have firewalls that can control incoming network traffic.
Sydney, Australia and Tokyo, Japan, In addition, a series of SARC Rapid Response Units will be set up through agreements with third party organizations to provide localized support and a 24-hour call out service to
In the private industry, where access to user lists is in many cases tightly controlled and firewall technology is more widespread, external spamming is less of a problem.However, the problems of internal mass mailings still exist. A Boston firm‘s server crashed after employees E-mailed one another with copies of a popular screen saver, The problem was solved when the company placed the program on a server and told its employees to download it from there instead of E-mailing it to one another. Some corporate network administrators institute policies that limit internal mass mailings. Others just try to encourage voluntary restraint.
These Raipd Response Units are being recruited to provide local presence in every major European country within the next 12 months. These units will be a combination of commercial organizations and non-commercial bodies such as universities.
NY Global anti-virus research programme launched Symantec has plans to create a global network of virus research centres to identify and collect local viruses and contribute to product development. The company has invested more than $6 million in a series of Symentec Antivirus Research Centres @ARC) spread across the world and based on its Santa Monica facility in California, USA. SARCs will open in Leiden in the Netherlands,
companies
infected with viruses.
For further information, contact Richard Saunders, Symantec on: +44 1628 592384; E-mail: [email protected].
Integrated network security products Pretty Good Privacy and Schlumberger Electronic Transactions have announced a strategic alliance for the development and marketing of integrated network security products. The companies will develop and market products that ‘integrate Pretty Good Privacy’s (PGP) powerful encryption technology with cryptographic smartcards from Schlumberger. The companies hope that the combined products will provide high levels of communications security across corporate intranets and the Internet, coupled with the convenience of a smartcard. For further information, contact lsabelle Fefdane-Coudefc, Schlumberger Electronic Transactions on: +33 I 47 46 70 20; fax: +33 I 47 46 68 66; E-mail: ferdune@montrouge,et,s/b.com.
01997
Elsevier Science Ltd