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    Insurance companies are busy trying to alert organisations nationwide about the potential havoc cyberoutlaws can wreak and urging potential customers to consider a product still in its infancy: insurance to cover an array of computer-security risks.

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    Can disaster recovery be anything more than an insurance policy?

  • Russian Mafia threatens Net

    Organised crime rings in Russia and the rest of the former Soviet Union are increasingly hacking into U.S. e-commerce and banking Web sites, posing an enormous economic threat.

  • Online banks: Prime targets for attacks

    Instead of a note and a gun, high-tech bank robbers use a program and an e-mail. Security firms are working overtime to ward off the mounting number of hack attacks.

  • A legal fix for software flaws?

    Thomas Leavitt, a system administrator and veteran of three Silicon Valley start-ups, has dealt with computer worms and viruses before.

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