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  • eTerrorism: Assessing the infrastructure risk

    While warnings pervade government and the media, doomsday scenarios of cyberterrorism that result in massive deaths or injury remain largely the stuff of Hollywood scripts or conspiracy theory.

  • Fighting the new electronic war

    Former tank officer Lance Spitzner has another kind of target in his gunsights: the Internet intruder. He is using his military training to catch a different type of enemy: the hacker.

  • Net attacks are on the rise...now what?

    No, you're not paranoid. The number of attacks on Internet-connected networks is increasing, with no sign of letting up. Here's what you can do to stay in the clear.

  • FBI snoop tool old hat for hackers

    "Magic Lantern," a reported method for sneaking surveillance programs onto a suspect's computer, appears to be little more than old hacking technology.

  • Can your bank stop a cyberheist?

    A bank's security system can appear to be almost foolproof, but it usually can't stop carelessness, inside sources or an intruder's persistence.

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  • Security: Are you fully armed?

    Security is like an onion: getting to the heart of it makes people cry a lot. But in order to protect your systems, security vendors are now recommending an onion-like multilayered approach.

  • Study: Open source poses security risks

    A conservative US think tank suggests in an upcoming report that open-source software is inherently less secure than proprietary software.

  • Old code in Windows is security threat

    Microsoft will more quickly retire old code in its Windows operating system and other software as a result of the company's four-month-old "trustworthy computing" initiative, the company's lead bug basher said in an interview.

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