A trade organizationfor the software and digital media industry.
Business Software Alliance
An organization dedicated to monitoring companies for legal software licenses. The BSA is known in some circles as the software police.
Business Technology Association
Aninternational non-profit trade organization for dealers, VARs, system integrators, manufacturers and distributors of business equipment and systems.
Internet Law & Policy Forum
International non-profit organization that focuses on Internet related legal issues.
Groklaw
Legal news and comment created by Pamela Jones. The site highlights legal issues regarding the FOSS community.
MP3 Attachment Spam Bombards Computer Users
ParetoLogic warns its users of new flood of MP3 Attachment Spam hitting computer users. Commtouch Detection Centre recently reported this new email hazard to ParetoLogic, stating that it began on October 17, 2007, and accounted for 7-10% of spam received that day. ParetoLogic warns computer users to be vigilant regarding their email and online security.
Victoria, BC (PRWEB) October 20, 2007 — Accounting for approximately 7-10% of all spam globally over the past 18 hours, spam messages with MP3 attachments are the latest threat to hit email and computer users. According to the Commtouch Detection Centre, this latest flood of spam began at 21:24 GMT, October 17, 2007 and is characterized by massive file sizes that range from 85 KB to 147 KB. Commtouch reports that the message contents are usually empty as are the subject lines, containing just the words "Fwd:" or "Re:" or the name of the file attachment.
"The file size and the fact that the attachment file names utilize emotional tactics such as "dadsong mp3" and popular entertainment names such as "beatles mp3" to entice receivers to open the attachments, is a real concern" Comments Amanda Cooper, Director of Communications at ParetoLogic Inc, the makers of popular online safety software, including ParetoLogic Spam Controls. "Commtouch has told us that the MP3 files appear to be promoting stocks and that no viral threat has been detected so far. This is always our biggest concern as virus transmission through email can be devastating."
ParetoLogic is taking this opportunity to remind its customers and all computer users to be vigilant regarding their email security. Employing and updating spam control software, not opening email (or its attachments) from unfamiliar senders, and not clicking on links in email received are all solid steps toward effective email security. "No matter how compelling the subject, you must resist the urge to open email from unfamiliar senders," advises ParetoLogic's Amanda Cooper.
About ParetoLogic:
In 2004 four brothers recognized that modern computer users need not rely on computer repair technicians to maintain their own PC's. Knowing that sophisticated technology married with a truly user-friendly interface would empower people to secure and optimize their own computers, the brothers researched the marketplace to define and develop the software products that would most benefit today's computer user. ParetoLogic now employs 105 professionals to help them research, develop, and market software applications that will enable people to secure and enhance their computing experience.
Available in eight languages in 186 countries around the world, ParetoLogic has established partnerships on a global scale to ensure that its products are available to all computer users, regardless of location, language, or computing experience.
Attention to the needs of the consumer coupled with a commitment to delivering exceptional software applications and resource-rich websites guarantee that our products will exceed your expectations.
OnForce Moves Offices To Boston
(TheForceField.net ) October 19, 2007 — OnForce, Inc. announced Tuesday that it had moved its headquarters from New York City to Lexington, Massachusettes. Lexington is part of the metropolitan Boston area.
According to a press release on PR Newswire, OnForce officially opened its new corporate offices on October 1. Most of the company's workforce has already relocated to the area others and will follow during the next few months. OnForce also plans to add 35 new employees to its payroll.
"The relocation to the Boston area enables us to more easily attract top engineering and product development talent, which is always a challenge, given our expansive growth," the press release quoted OnForce CEO Peter Cannone as saying. "Our new facilities in Lexington are also nearly double the square footage of our New York City office, which provides us with the space we need to support our current operations and future growth."
OnForce boasts a membership of nearly 11,000 Service Providers and has completed over 500,000 service events on its platform.
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Fiddler
Fiddler is a HTTP debugging proxy freeware tool from Microsoft. The program allows you to monitor all HTTP traffic and works will most applications, including Internet Explorer and Firefox.
http://www.fiddlertool.com/fiddler
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Avoiding Corporate Software Piracy: Managing Software for Compliance
The $ 1 million rewards incentive program for reporting software piracy has been extended by Business Software Alliance (BSA) because of the increase in reports of piracy. Organizations are prone to unintentional piracy when software is not managed properly. The only alternative to poor audit results is to utilize software asset management automation and to expect proactive and cost effective software management from that investment.
Ottsville, PA (PRWEB) October 19, 2007 — The $ 1 million rewards incentive program for reporting software piracy has produced results, encouraging the Business Software Alliance (BSA) to extend the program beyond the anticipated September, 2007 end. As part of the October celebration of National Cyber Security Awareness Month, the BSA announced an increase in reported software piracy and has extended the reward program through the end of the calendar year. Eracent, a global provider of IT asset management solutions celebrates Cyber Security Awareness by highlighting the importance of software asset management as the only strategy to eliminate unintentional software piracy.
"Mismanagement of software so that more copies are in use than the company has the rights to use is piracy," stated Walt Szablowski, President of Eracent. "Ignorance is not a defense, especially since someone knew enough about the situation to place a call to the rewards program."
Despite the complexities of networks and the changing demands of the users, software asset management business practices help organizations keep usage in line with licensing. These practices not only maintain compliance but yield savings as unused software and unnecessary maintenance are eliminated from the organization's portfolio. Automation has a vital role in software asset management, discovering the licenses in use and reconciling the usage to procurement records to confirm legal usage.
"I strongly encourage large organizations to re-examine their software asset management automation and if you find spreadsheets, manual data collection and reactive management, the company needs to move onto newer technology," stated Szablowski. "Solutions like Eracent's suite take automation beyond current expectations, discovering more in an easily usable manner, automating reconciliation with procurement directly and building a repository of accurate data to support service management. There is no reason to have a bad result from an audit any more."