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• Securing Microsoft: From the Blaster worm to Blue Hat

  From Blaster Worm to Blue Hat, we bring you a complete retrospective on the evolution of Microsoft's security strategy over the last decade. Step onboard as we chart the triumphs and tragedies as the Microsoft engineers battled the tides of internet hackers, transforming them from adversaries to unlikely allies.

• Search engines reveal privacy policies

  Discovering how your favourite search engine protects your privacy is not an easy task, despite recent moves from the major players to make policies more transparent.

• Precision security fighting at Cisco

  Cisco security maven John Stewart says never mind the OS -- attackers are after the apps, from IM to Office.

• Spim, splog on the rise

  Spammers are increasingly turning to mobile text-messaging, Web-based instant messaging, blogs and social-networking communities such as MySpace.com, according to mail services company MessageLabs.

• A globetrotter's guide to cyber crime

  Is the war on cyber crime as simple as pointing the finger at China, Russia and the US? We investigate whether these parts of the world are being unfairly blamed.

• How much does unwanted Internet traffic really cost?

  Have you ever wondered just how much "junk" Internet traffic is costing your company? One of Jonathan Yarden's coworkers recently tasked him with finding out. In this case study, learn how he went about gathering this information, and see how unwanted traffic affects his organisation's bottom line.

• ISPs versus the zombies

  If providers don't pitch in against the threat, customers might defect -- and the health of the Net itself could suffer.

• Battle of the bots

  You can't hear them and you can't see them, but be warned, bots are all around us and they do have a search-and-destroy attitude that could be the death of your business.

• How to attack spammers in your sleep

  Plans are afoot to attack spammers by launching the kind of cyber-attack favoured by organised crime and hackers with an axe to grind.

• Call to arms against cybercrooks

  The CTO of betting exchange Betfair says that more cross-industry cooperation is needed to prevent denial-of-service attacks against online businesses.

• Richard Clarke: Straight talking on terror

  Counter-terrorism adviser to four US presidents Richard Clarke discusses whether cyberterrorism is a misnomer or a real threat.

• Part I: Most popular security issues

  Executives under arrest, charging for e-mail, rogue staff, e-mail spoofing, spyware: it's all here in your first raft of questions to our panel of experts. Additional reading: Beat malware with Firefox, others

• The new face of cybercrime

  Computer scientist Phillip Hallam-Baker says the rise of the professional hacker means the IT world must unlearn old lessons.

• Researchers infiltrate denial of service networks

  Security researchers have been infiltrating denial of service 'botnets' to study what may be an unstoppable Distributed Denial of Service (DoS) technique.

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