It was viruses, viruses and more viruses - particularly Nimda, the current concern of the infection fearing IT sector, and the thorny issue of ISPs taking responsibility for virus attacks. I agree that if consumers want to protect themselves from...
A second wave of attacks, whereby infected computers attempted to download a Trojan horse from 20 'master servers' set up by the virus writer, was prevented when security experts successfully took them offline.
For consumers, Cerf suggested that everyone adopt a regimen of "cyberhygiene" to protect themselves from spam, viruses and spyware. The technology, called Virus Outbreak Filters, is used to detect and quarantine suspicious email or viruses before...
The spoofing takes advantage of a flaw in the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (STMP) that makes it possible to label an email with a fake address. Microsoft has merged two email authentication methods into a single proposed standard in an attempt to...
Terrorist attacks and environmental terrorism were among the top concerns, along with time-honoured threats such as hacking and computer viruses. If you have in place security to protect you from hackers, virus writers, script kiddies and the very...
The new law also makes it an offence to supply or make available software or tools that could be used to commit hacking or DoS attacks. Cyber crime is a hot political potato too: the UK government has just updated the Computer Misuse Act to close a...