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    Today, the standard configuration for security in an IT department should include antivirus, anti-spam, anti-spyware and firewall products.

  • Crisis strikes: What do you do next?

    The corporate Web site is gone and a hacker has made off with the database. The company's reputation is at stake. What crisis management tactics should be employed?

  • 'Trojan' e-mails conceal theft tools

    Police are warning Internet users about 'Trojan' e-mails containing links to malicious Web sites that can steal sensitive information such as PINs and password log-ins from vulnerable PCs.

  • The business of e-blackmail

    The Internet and e-mail have become weapons of choice as criminals take industrial espionage and blackmail to new heights.

  • Criminal gangs turn to blackmailing the average user

    While criminal gangs are more widely associated with threatening denial of service attacks unless they get a kickback of thousands of pounds, it seems some are taking a more small-scale approach to extortion: now average PC users are being targeted.

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