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  • Season over for 'phishing'?

    The latest innovation in identity fraud typically begins with an unexpected e-mail message from a financial institution proclaiming something like: "Your account information needs to be updated due to inactive members, frauds and spoof reports."

  • "Code Red" worm leaves Net tracks

    System administrators have 10 days to fix nearly 300,000 Web servers infected by the Code Red worm before the malicious program halts its largely unsuccessful but ongoing attack on Whitehouse.gov and starts spreading again.

  • FBI arrests MSBlast worm suspect

    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.

  • Warning to IT managers: Suspect everybody

  • Warning to IT managers: Suspect everybody

    Unless IT managers educate every employee -- from the CEO to the receptionist -- about how hackers work and how to bolster security, corporate networks and Web sites will never be safe from attack.

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  • Who are these virus writers?

    commentary Who takes the time and effort to pull off malicious stunts, like viruses, malware, worms, Trojans, or any other deliberately damaging actions? And why?

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