Jon’s Network

Joreybump.com explains a tactic to reduce the amount of spam a network receives using less resources than conventional spam filters.

It has been observed that when a domain has both a primary (high priority, low number) and a secondary (low priority, high number) MX record configured in DNS, overall SMTP connections will decrease when the primary [...]

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Anti-Virus software is a necessary investment and it’s important to make sure you maximize your return regardless of which solution you choose to run.  There are many criteria for an enterprise endpoint security solution. Here are a few:

1. Does it have proactive virus detection technology to combat zero-day threats?

2. Does it centrally manage and update [...]

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ITWorld.com has an article summarizing a talk given at MIT by John Seely Brown, the former chief scientist at Xerox and director of its Palo Alto Research Center. Brown now teaches at the University of Southern California.

"Training someone for a career makes no sense. At best, you can train someone for [...]

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Jessica Vascellaro wrote a great article in the Wall Street Journal titled, "Saying No To School Laptops".  (It is over 90 days old, so you have to pay WSJ to read it.  Anywhere Anytime Learning Foundation has it posted here.)

Shawna Adam and her sixth-grade daughter Abby got a Macbook for $78 (wow, what a [...]

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Sophos goes beyond traditional anti-virus and incorporates anti-spyware, anti-adware, HIPS (they call it Behavioral Genotype Protection) and client firewall (optional).  It can all be centrally managed from a console and is included with the product subscription.  They have an optional feature called Application Control that allows you to block legitimate applications that might hog your [...]

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The latest Boeing laptop theft, which was reported by Information Week on December 15th, 2006, contained identifying information on 382,000 Boeing employees. 

"Boeing is trying to figure out how to best protect data in this portable world we live in," says Tim Neale, a spokesman for Boeing.

"In November 2005, Boeing had to deal with its [...]

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I read Steve’s keynote speech live at MacObserver today.  I was not that surprised to see the iPhone announcement, but I was really surprised to see how advanced it is.  There are so many juicy features to love, but random-access voicemail is a great one.  You can drool here.

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