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  • SCO waits for MyDoom attacks to end

    Controversial software maker the SCO Group will continue to use an alternate Web site for at least a few more days, even though the denial-of-service attacks that crippled its main site were set to end Thursday.

  • Why MyDoom-like attacks will persist

    Already, experts are beginning to talk about how MyDoom revealed the inadequacies of countermeasures designed to thwart such attacks.

  • The case of the mistaken worm

    When security experts first detected a worm that uses Yahoo's People Search engine to harvest e-mail addresses, they assumed it was a new variant of MyDoom.

  • Better tools let hackers strike more quickly

    Increasingly, attackers are using better tools to find vulnerabilities quickly, exploit flaws and hide their attacks.

  • SCO selling Linux licences online

    Controversial software seller the SCO Group has launched an online-ordering site for companies that want to use the open-source Linux operating system with SCO's blessing.

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  • The case of the mistaken worm

    When security experts first detected a worm that uses Yahoo's People Search engine to harvest e-mail addresses, they assumed it was a new variant of MyDoom.

  • Better tools let hackers strike more quickly

    Increasingly, attackers are using better tools to find vulnerabilities quickly, exploit flaws and hide their attacks.

  • New worm threat flagged

    E-mail filtering company MessageLabs has issued an initial warning to anti-virus vendors that a new mass-mailing worm maybe on the march.

  • Microsoft reward snags suspected Sasser author

    Microsoft's US$5 million fund for rewarding informants for leads on virus attacks has snagged its first success with the arrest of a man in Germany who has confessed to the release of the Sasser worm, the software giant said Saturday.

  • Netsky.B flies across Net

    E-mail inboxes are being swamped as Netsky.B continues to increase its infection rate.

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