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  • FBI hunts down worm writers

    The FBI is "confident" it will capture those who are responsible for creating and spreading the MSBlast worm and the Sobig.F virus, the bureau said Tuesday.

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    Federal law enforcement officials confirmed that they have arrested a suspect in the MSBlast worm attack that compromised hundreds of thousands of computers earlier this month.

  • Sober worm offshoot trades on Paris Hilton, FBI

    There is no Easter Bunny, and that's not a real Paris Hilton video in your e-mail box. Nor is the FBI likely to be e-mailing you to ask you questions about visiting illegal Web sites.

  • Valentine e-cards contain infections, not love

    Valentine e-greetings from a stranger are likely to contain destructive Trojans, according to the FBI.

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    Anti-virus firms have cracked an algorithm that was being used by the Sober worm to 'communicate' with its author.

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  • Top 10 Linux/Unix vulnerabilities

    In cooperation with the FBI, SANS has released its annual update to the most exploited Internet security vulnerabilities. We look at the top 10 Linux/Unix vulnerabilities.

  • FBI: Insiders most dangerous

    Internal employees are becoming the biggest threat in organisations, according to the annual FBI and the Computer Security Institute computer 2004 crime report. But attacks and costs are down.

  • Playing cops and robbers with cybersecurity

    If Microsoft's cash bounties convince any hackers to rat out fellow cybervandals, then more power to whoever dreamed up this public relations stunt.

  • Top Windows security threats

    Easily exploited vulnerabilities are a hackers favourite target. Use this updated SANS/FBI list of the top threats to Windows to find out where the hackers may be lurking.

  • Microsoft sets up virus-hunting fund

    Microsoft will work with law enforcement to track down writers of worms, viruses and other malicious code, and is ponying up US$5 million to fund the search.

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    SECURING THE WEB: Making the Internet a better (and safer) place to live means mapping many of the institutions of the real world--defense, taxation, government, law enforcement--over to cyberspace. Here are some of the things that must to happen to bring the Internet into line.

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