Difficult To Assign Blame for the Monster Hack

In the wake of a scandalous phishing attack that gave identity thieves access to personal information of 1.3 million Monster.com users, questions are emerging about the way the online job board company handled the ordeal.The company first learned about the issue on August 17. That’s when Symantec told Monster malicious hackers were targeting its machines. By August 21, Symantec published a report revealing the scam e-mails attackers were using. The attackers’ goal was to get personal financial data.

Monster finally notified its customers on August 22. A notice on the monster.com Web site warned users they might be the target of e-mail scams. Monster executives have publicly stated the company wanted to make sure it knew the nature of the attack before announcing details.

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Big Blue Buys Web Conferencing Firm

On Wednesday, IBM made an announcement that got the tech world talking about Web conferencing again. Big Blue bought WebDialogs, a Web conferencing and communications services vendor that boasts more than 500,000 users worldwide.WebDialogs offers online meeting and collaboration services that, as its name suggests, combine Web and audio conferencing into one experience. It is deployed as a service rather than a product that has to be installed on the corporate server .

The WebDialogs acquisition expands IBM’s offerings in the Web conferencing space, particularly for the small and midsize business (SMB) segment, and departments within larger organizations.

IBM will integrate the WebDialogs Unyte service with its collaboration portfolio, including IBM Lotus Notes and IBM Lotus Sametime software. The acquisition adds a missing software-as-a-service element to the Lotus Sametime family.

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