In today`s technology wrap: VeriSign`s SiteFinder offline with ICANN; Symbian fans rail against Windows CE; Napster goes legit; spam-fighters turn to identifying non-spam.
West Africa`s notorious 419 scammers appear to have updated their tactics to tap e-mail networks, posing as major London banks.
Commercial banks have again assured clients that Internet banking is safe, following weekend reports of a "hacker" claiming that their recent security upgrades are still leaky.
First National Bank has identified why its Internet banking services crashed at the month-end, as it scrambles to restore customer relations.
A new Packet Flow Acceleration product could have a significant impact on SA bandwidth.
An "unpatched" Internet Explorer (IE) browser hole could silently put malicious programs on PCs, experts say.
Anti-virus software vendors report that the Internet worm Sobig.F was by far the worst virus of the past month.
An unholy alliance is developing between the peddlers of pornography and hackers that will pose a severe security threat, says Graham Vorster, CTO at Duxbury Networking.
Symantec says blended threats, instant messaging and peer-to-peer propagation is increasing and time from discovery to outbreak is shortening.
The eBucks.com site is up to 85% availability, but technicians are still searching for the bug that laid it low.
Telkom blames virus attacks for slow e-mail deliveries, but says capacity is being improved to prevent future delays.
The AlphaShield Internet Privacy module has been released through local distributor IDXOnline.
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