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• Cyberthreat experts to meet at secretive conference

  Internet security experts are gathering at a secretive conference later this week to strategise in their fight against cybercriminals.

• Chills at Microsoft's security huddle

  Microsoft likes to keep its friends close -- and now that security companies are its foes, it may well want to keep those even closer.

• US-CERT to unveil global worm-naming plan

  Zotob.E, Tpbot-A, Rbot.CBQ and IRCbot.worm: all names given to a single worm that wreaked havoc in Windows 2000 systems last month. Among the plethora of identifiers, perhaps the most useful -- CME-540 -- didn't make an impact.

• Randex youths made botnets for gaming

  The youths who were sentenced for writing the Randex worm built a 30,000 strong botnet to win at online gaming.

• Security experts see nastier worms

  Computer worms are likely to become a more damaging combination of virus writing and hacker exploits, according to security experts.

• KWBot worm hits Kazaa

  Kazaa users attempting to download the Spiderman movie and other popular files from the Web may end up getting bitten by a new bug.

• Worm exposes laziness and Microsoft bugs

  SQL Slammer, also known as the Sapphire worm, has highlighted a dirty secret in the IT industry: Software bugs are common and administrators are slow to patch them.

• Does a virus gang own the Internet?

  Who knows what the authors of Netsky and Sasser are thinking. Robert Vamosi offers some speculation based on messages left inside recent viruses by the authors themselves.

• Why MyDoom-like attacks will persist

  Already, experts are beginning to talk about how MyDoom revealed the inadequacies of countermeasures designed to thwart such attacks.

• Goner proves social viruses still a threat

  The Goner worm, which relies on the inquisitive computer user to spread, shows that gullible users are still their own worst enemy.

• Australians aren't safe from Code Blue

  The Code Blue worm is on the warpath in China and with Australia in an amber zone of malicious attacks, local organisations should be battening down the hatches in anticipation of another server onslaught.

• Viruses: Is the worst yet to come?

  Although the threat of computer viruses has been a latent concern for well over a decade, experts have warned that a massive viral outbreak has the potential to seriously compromise the very backbone of the Internet. ZDNet Australia takes a look at the viruses of 2001, and the threats for the future.

• New virus hitches a ride in PDF files

  Adobe's popular PDF file format has generally been considered immune to viruses. But a new virus carried by programs embedded in PDF files raises concerns that the format itself could become susceptible.

• Survey: Microsoft bears some blame for worms

  One-third of business users blame Microsoft for the recent worm outbreak, despite the company's security efforts, according to a poll.

• Storm worm variant ignites e-mail virus deluge

  Last week likely marked the largest proliferation of e-mail virus attacks in more than a year, according to security company Postini.

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