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U.S. Congress: P2P E-Smut ‘Not Necessarily’ More Dangerous than Other Forms

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Smut distributed through peer-to-peer networks isn’t inherently more dangerous than titillating matter found elsewhere on the Internet. That was one of several findings by the research arm of the U.S. Congress, the General Accounting Office (GAO), in a letter responding to written inquiries by the Senate Judiciary Committee following the panel’s hearings in September on…

Windows Cash-Machine Worm Generates Concern

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Concerns about computer viruses and worms are spreading beyond the PC arena as embedded software and systems vulnerable to attack are introducing risk to several unique technology sectors, including automatic teller machines (ATMs), emergency response systems and even automobiles. ATM maker Diebold recently confirmed that this year’s Nachi worm infected cash machines of two U.S.…

U.S. Says Federal Agencies Still Failing Security Test

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

A U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee confirmed this week the concerns of security experts and Washington insiders by grading most federal agencies with a D or F in terms of IT security. There was improvement from last year’s federal computer-security progress report as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and National Science Foundation each earned an A…

Scheme Hatched To Counter Digital Rights Balkanization

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

A scheme to counter the Balkanization of digital rights management (DRM) on the Internet was unveiled Wednesday by a standards group whose members include ARM, ContentGuard, Macrovision, Microsoft, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT), Universal Music Group and VeriSign. The group — called the Content Reference Forum (CRF) — has posted specifications that it asserts will…

IE Hole Exposed, MS Not Patching

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Microsoft’s new monthly-patching policy is getting put to the test as several vulnerabilities, such as another Internet Explorer hole disclosed this week, present attackers with opportunity. The latest IE hole — announced by Secunia, the same Danish security company that disclosed a separate, critical hole in Internet Explorer late last month — could be exploited…

SCO Hit with Another Denial-of-Service Attack

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

At the same time that a judge’s call for evidence sent SCO Group’s stock price lower, the Lindon, Utah-based company was taking a hit on its Web site, against which attackers launched a denial-of-service (DoS) attack that also knocked some of the company’s internal operations offline. SCO, hit by a similar Web site attack earlier…

U.S. Spam King Arrested, Indicted by Grand Jury

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

An alleged sender of unsolicited e-mail whose success earned him the title of “spam king” has been arrested in Virginia in what is being called the first felony prosecution of a spammer in the United States. Virginia officials, who announced the arrest with AOL, MCI and UUNet — charged that Jeremy Jaynes, 29, also known…

Big Bank Customers Targeted by Internet Scammers

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Customers of big banks, beware. You might be surfing the Web with a bull’s-eye on your browser. That’s because Internet scam artists have targeted the customers of large financial institutions for their nefarious efforts. The technique used by the grifters is a cyberspace version of the old bait-and-switch tactic that in the Internet age could…

Windows XP Service Pack 2 Goes Beta with Default Firewall

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

It may have been a long time coming, but Microsoft’s newest Service Pack 2 for Windows XP — soon to be released for beta testing — represents several significant changes to the software. Many of the updates and new features, which analysts have said could amount to an entirely different operating system altogether, center on…

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