BorderWare announces MXtreme Mail Firewall version 4.0. MXtreme 4.0 adds new features and functionality in five key areas, security, policy enforcement, manageability, audit reporting, and availability, to deliver a solution for securing an enterprise’s entire email infrastructure.

When you use Outlook 2003 with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, you can configure some folders in your mailbox for offline use, that is, you can use the contents of a folder without a Network connection. This article explains in detail how you can create, use, and synchronize offline folders.

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) extortion is growing as an Internet crime, making mitigation against such attacks almost mandatory.

Proper categorization of data for use in service delivery lifecycles is critical to the effectiveness of IT organizations. Develop and organize the data in a well-designed hierarchy to more accurately categorize the experience and match it with the appropriate service delivery activity.

A leaked European Union position paper says the EU’s antitrust investigation found that Microsoft knew it could keep customers on Windows no matter what because deeply embedded APIs make a switch to another system a difficult task. In a response to the document, Microsoft slammed the EU as making up new law to punish the software maker.

Microsoft CFO John Connors, in a conference call with reporters and analysts said, "We will continue to focus on getting closure on our legal matters, but tremendous progress has been made. We are still on track to be able to share more details by the financial analysts meeting this July."

MSN is launching four, new, paid subscription games branded under "MSN Instant Games Clubhouse," simultaneously with MSN Messenger 6.2, a minor release of its instant-messaging platform.

Margie Semilof, Senior News Writer at SearchWin2000, examines how Microsoft expects IT shops to upgrade their PCs so they are current with the latest release of Windows. When a new version of the operating system comes out, they encourage customers to do a "forklift upgrade," an upgrade that requires a massive technology investment.

Exploits have begun popping up for a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) flaw that affects Windows. Security experts say the SSL Bomb exploit code could lead to widespread denial-of-service attacks by blocking SSL connections on machines running Windows 2000 and Windows XP.

Two new research reports find that email spoofing attacks are on a steep rise. One of those reports says that businesses in the financial services sector appear to be most vulnerable to having their corporate identities hijacked.