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Is the Superworm a Mere Myth?

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

If one thing is definite about Internet security and worm attacks, say experts, it is that cyber attacks are on the rise in 2004. Consider the worldwide effect of highly publicized worms like last year’s SoBig series and the recent Sinit Trojan and MyDoom outbreaks. Given the potency of some of these worms, security experts…

Global Extortion: Online Gambling and Organized Hacking

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

A new trend in extorting money from sports and gambling Web sites isn’t going away like security experts had predicted. Online gambling Web sites began receiving e-mail threats in October of last year. The messages contained demands for money to prevent distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that would shut down the targeted Web site. Internet security…

Pharming, SPIM Plaguing Internet

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

As if phishing isn’t bad enough, network security firms report pharmers are now emerging in larger numbers on the Internet to steal your identity. To top it off, new research has found that the volume of IM-borne security threats have also increased dramatically since the beginning of the year. The pharming scam uses DNS Cache…

Company’s Seal of Approval a Standard for Security Products

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

When it comes to keeping bad stuff from entering computers, hardware protection devices work better than software solutions. “The software side of things still needs a lot of work,” NSS Testing Labs CTO Bob Walder told TechNewsWorld. That is part of the findings from a rigorous battery of tests done on leading intrusion detection and…

Top Layer Networks’ Ken Pappas: When PCI Compliance Isn’t Enough

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

High-profile data breaches continue to spotlight the growing risks consumers face of identity theft and credit card fraud. Four highly visible data breaches disclosed in the last 18 months are particularly worrisome because they show a systemic failure in the procedures that both the public and regulatory agencies expect companies to get right. One notorious…

Readin’, Writin’ and Web 2.0

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

The enhanced degree of communication that Web 2.0 utilities enable is changing the corporate world, for good or for ill, as enterprises decide whether to reject or embrace concepts like wikis, blogs, social networks and video-sharing. The trend has touched the academic world in similar ways. Web 2.0 utilities have raised concerns about security in…

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Is the Superworm a Mere Myth?

Global Extortion: Online Gambling and Organized Hacking

Pharming, SPIM Plaguing Internet

Company’s Seal of Approval a Standard for Security Products

Top Layer Networks’ Ken Pappas: When PCI Compliance Isn’t Enough

Readin’, Writin’ and Web 2.0