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News (10)

• Report: Targeted e-mail attacks increasing

  Stealthy, targeted cyberattacks via e-mail continue to rise, e-mail security specialist MessageLabs said on Wednesday.

• Trojan swaps porn sites for Koran text

  A new Trojan horse is serving as a moral guard of sorts, displaying text from the Koran if users visit what could be a pornographic Web site, Sophos warned on Monday.

• Flaw found in Sophos antivirus

  Sophos has announced a flaw in its flagship antivirus product, but said that it is working on fixes.

• Watch out for worm wars

  The recent surge in worms could be part of an underground battle to hijack computers for use in Internet crimes, some security experts say -- but others aren't convinced.

• Researchers examine worm throttling plan

  Researchers at Hewlett Packard laboratories in Bristol, England, have been working on a new technology designed to choke off Internet worms and viruses in an attempt to slow them down and control their spread.

Features and Case Studies (3)

• Lessons to be learnt from Sasser

  We had the tools to stop the worm dead in its tracks, but it still exacted a high toll in lost productivity, and in the case of the sailors at sea around the coast of England, created a real risk to life.

• Windows Messenger undergoes security revamp

  Windows Messenger could be blocked by default or disabled in the next Windows XP Service Pack as Microsoft updates patches for some critical flaws.

• Is your monitor glow revealing your data?

  Now there's a way law enforcement agents can read data displayed on a user's computer monitor, even when they can't see the screen. All they need is a special light detector and lab hardware. Are your secrets being unveiled?

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