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FTC on Spam: More Work to Be Done

WASHINGTON—The second day of meetings at the Federal Trade Commissions E-mail Authentication Summit began on a hopeful note Thursday, with FTC Commissioner Jon Leibowitz...

Veterans Day Sees a Phishing Frenzy

Veterans Day may have been a holiday for many U.S. companies, including banks and other financial institutions, but for Internet fraudsters it was one...

So Now Will You Install SP2?

Sometimes I just cant believe peoples lack of perspective, and the best current example is the resistance to adopting Windows XP Service Pack 2. For...

FBI Makes Arrest in Windows Source Code Theft

A Connecticut man arrested on charges of selling Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0 source code stolen from a Microsoft Corp. partner faces up...

Firefox Flaws Flagged, Fixed

Just one day after the Mozilla Foundation released Firefox 1.0, the group has revealed that prior versions of the open-source browser pose a security...

Who Wrote Sobig?

Sobig hit the world on Aug. 18, 2003, and was an immediate success. The sixth variant, Sobig.F, may have been the most successful endemic...

New Version of MyDoom Worm in Zero-Day Attack

Anti-virus companies are reporting a worm that spreads via a new vulnerability in Internet Explorer. The vulnerability is not present in Windows XP Service Pack...

Microsoft Patches Spoofing Flaw in ISA Server

Microsoft has issued a patch for a flaw in ISA (Internet Security and Acceleration) Server 2000 and Proxy Server 2.0. According to the advisory...

Keep Real Privacy Risks in Focus

The prospect of putting surveillance cameras on high-crime streets in Los Angeles is unappealing, it seems, to Ramona Ripston, executive director of the American...

Disclose Security Breaches

The public disclosure of security breaches is among the most embarrassing and career-threatening events that can take place on an IT managers watch. Nonetheless, we...