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TechNewsWorld: Tech Pros Get To Know Their Enemy
23-Sep-03 07:33 ET
Story Highlights:
"A team of hackers furiously peck away at their keyboards, launching a late-night assault on a computer network. While one batters through a creaky Internet address, another filches important documents from the company's database. But it isn't what you think."
ABCNews: Cyber Threat
23-Sep-03 09:45 ET
Story Highlights:
"Evildoers commandeer thousands of home computers, creating a virtual army that knocks down chunks of the Internet. Computer infections hit a nuclear plant, crash a 911 system, snarl train service and shut down ATMs. A neighborhood glitch compromises air traffic control computers. It's all happened before, security experts say. Luckily for America, it hasn't happened all at once -- yet."
Silicon.com: Firms Still Leave Security to Chance
20-Sep-03 16:06 ET
Story Highlights:
"Too many companies are still leaving the security of their websites to chance -- adopting an 'it couldn't happen to us' attitude rather than implementing robust security on their site and servers."
Security Pipeline: Protect Yourself from Swen and MSBlaster II
23-Sep-03 08:04 ET
Story Highlights:
"With the fast-paced spread of the Swen worm and ongoing concerns that a second MSBlaster worm will soon strike, a variety of security experts and analysts made recommendations Friday on ways to detect and remove the first, and thwart the second."
Full Story on Security Pipeline
BBC: 'Relentless' Pace of Hack Attacks
23-Sep-03 10:54 ET
Story Highlights:
"Over an eight-week period two dummy websites, one with a firewall and one without, suffered thousands of attacks. On average the unprotected website was attacked more than 2,000 times per week and the protected site more than 200 times."
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