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SoBig.F Piles On the Worm Effect

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

At the tail end of what could be called this summer’s “Worm Week,” antivirus and security experts watched carefully as the spreading SoBig.F variant flooded in-boxes around the Internet with millions of virus-laden e-mails. Antivirus researchers said the worm, which was set to activate a barrage of e-mail from infected machines Friday, was not especially…

Network Security Evolves: An Interview with CA’s Ian Hameroff

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Computer Associates is not your average software developer. This US$5 billion company — one of the largest in the industry — designs software to help businesses manage critical aspects of their IT operations and to help programmers automate their daily work. The company’s software products, which work with almost every commercially available hardware platform and…

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…

SCO Sets $250K Bounty for MyDoom Worm Writer

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

In response to what is being called the fastest-spreading computer virus of all time, SCO Group — targeted by the MyDoom worm’s estimated 3 million infected machines in a planned denial-of-service (DoS) attack scheduled for February 1st — is offering a US$250,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the worm’s creators.…

Can Lessons from the Common Cold Help Us Defeat Computer Viruses?

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Through the years, some malicious computer programs have come to be known as viruses. Dr. Fred Cohen, a principal analyst with market research firm Burton Group, coined the term when he was working as a graduate student at the University of Southern California in the early 1980s. “There was a resemblance in how computer viruses…

Message To Spyware: Get Off Our Private Property

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Keystroke loggers and spyware developers may soon be silenced, as Congress is debating a bill that would outlaw the intrusive software and declare it akin to trespassing on private property. “It’s my computer. It’s my private property,” said Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Montana), during a public hearing in the U.S. Senate earlier this week, talking about…

Bagle.U Worm Spreads Despite Simplicity

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

It’s bad enough when virus writers can download their worm code of choice and relatively simply unleash a new variant on the Internet, but Friday showed something even worse: Virtually zero effort is needed to entice people to open attachments. So far, the non-sophisticated, no-subject, no-text Bagle.U variant has spread to a substantial number of…

Virus Arrests Continue, As Do Worms

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

A series of arrests in Germany for alleged computer virus creation is likely to deter casual virus writers, but worms and variants continue and the most hardened computer criminals will probably be more careful, not quelled by the arrests, according to security experts. The biggest arrest came last Friday when Microsoft announced it had worked…

VoIP Opportunity Comes with Risk, Experts Warn

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) has become an increasingly hot market, with new players such as Vonage touting the ability to deliver voice communications for less cost. While there are technical, regulatory and other issues that remain ahead for VoIP, security was highlighted as a chief concern at the VON conference in the UK this…

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