Researchers at Hewlett Packard laboratories in Bristol, England, have been working on a new technology designed to choke off Internet worms and viruses in an attempt to slow them down and control their spread.
An Internet worm, posing as an anti-virus update arriving in an email, is also using peer to peer (P2P) software to spread.
Microsoft will improve its security user interface to help clamp down on Trojan-based cyber-attacks, the company's product security manager says.
The security community has issued warnings that a series of vulnerabilities found in the BIND domain name server could be exploited to propagate a worm attack.
Three serious security vulnerabilities have been found in Real Player, the popular multimedia software.
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Can a national ID card protect Australians against terrorist attacks? And can citizens' details be protected by Public Key Infrastructure? We look at the types of hardware and software employed to combat terrorism, and how ports and other critical infrastructure are protected.
A worm that takes advantage of what some security experts describe as the most widespread Windows flaw ever has started spreading, while new analysis has uncovered a time bomb in the worm's code poised to unleash a furious denial of service attack at Microsoft itself.
Instant messaging has been touted as offering a range of business benefits. But there are also security and HR issues that Australian CIOs and IT managers should carefully consider.
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