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6 MESSAGING NEWS NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2009 According to MessageLabs, now part of Symantec, due to an over- all complacency about Web and email security, Asian enterprises are among the most vulnerable in the world to digital attacks and cybercrime. The company says there remains a reluctance in Asian countries to adopt software-as- a-service (SaaS) approaches to combat digital crime, as a result one in 196 emails in Singapore dur- ing August had a virus or malware included in them—a rate which has increased over the past 12 months. Further, MessageLabs notes that organized crime is what is driving spam today and that cybercrime is now worth more to them than the drug trade. SaaS strategy is more widely accepted in Australia, the U.S. and Europe. SHORT TAKES Asian Enterprises Are Among the Most Vulnerable to Cybercrime On October 24, an email threatening to blow up planes in Mumbai on November 1 was sent to an airline's of- fice. Officials at Mumbai airport said they took the email threat seriously and put into place precaution- ary measures. Security agencies conducted manual checks of baggage, apart from screening them with X-ray machines. Even though the email named only one airline, all carriers were put on red alert. In the past six months there have been other email threats against Mumbai airport buildings and airlines. for itself the authority to serve as gatekeeper and master of every bit of data that flows over the Internet." —Believes James G. Lakely, co-director of Heartland Institute's Center on the Digital Economy and man- aging editor of InfoTech & Telecom News in response to FCC's October meeting to begin the process of codifying net neutrality principles as enforceable rules. "THE FCC IS TRYING TO GRAB San Francisco-based Flurry Analytics, which monitors mobile applications, reports that the Games category of the iPhone App Store drew the most new content each month from the store's launch in July 2008 through August of this year—taking a bite into the business of Nintendo DS. In a blog, VP of Marketing for Flurry Peter Farago wrote: "In Nintendo's October 29 earn- ings call, the company cited iPhone competition against its DS as one of the reasons profits fell by more than half last quarter." But in September, Flurry observed, for the first time, more books were re- leased to the App Store than games, and in October, Flurry reports one out of every five apps introduced for the iPhone was a book: "The sharp rise in e- book activity on the iPhone indicates that Apple is positioned to take market share from the Kindle as it did from the Nintendo DS. Despite the smaller form factor of the display, we predict that the iPhone will be a significant player in the book category of the Media & Entertainment space," commented Farago. Apple Takes a Bite Out of Nintendo and Kindle Email Threat Taken Seriously