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Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback This was a lesson learned by most of the email-using IT world in 1988 (yes, 88 not 98), when the CHRISTMA EXEC worm brought BITNET to its knees. If this lesson had also been learned by Microsoft, their email products would be a whole lot more secure.
[January 28, 2004, 8:49]
Dutch Police Arrest Kournikova Virus Suspect
News He cited a recent report from market research firm IDC, which indicated that few people had learnt their lesson from previous virus incidents and were still likely to open suspect attachments. Police in the Netherlands have arrested a man in...
[February 14, 2001, 15:36]
Kournikova Virus Suspect Faces Four Years In Slammer
News An IDC report suggested that few computer users have learnt a lesson from the recent virus attacks. The Dutchman suspected of unleashing a virus inspired by tennis player Anna Kournikova has been charged and released by Dutch police for computer...
[February 15, 2001, 12:31]
Wednesday: Beware The Booth Virus
Blog All in all, an object lesson in real-world computing, and refreshing to behold after my close encounter with the dark forces of marketing. It's a bloody virus on one of the booths! Wednesday 14/05/2003More iForuming.
[May 16, 2003, 17:59]
Nimda Worm Hits Banks
News The news bodes poorly for banks who should have learnt their lesson from Code Red -- the predecessor to Nimda -- and protected their servers against the vulnerability in Microsoft's IIS server software that the two worms exploit.
[September 20, 2001, 18:15]
Italian 'Love Bug' Contained For Now
News Recent research indicates that few have learnt the lesson from the chaos and damage caused by LoveBug and its variants. Anti-virus experts in Europe said Thursday that an Italian variant of the Love Bug, thought to be spreading with speed during...
[February 8, 2001, 12:45]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I guess this is just the lesson that spammers already know -- if you send email to lots of people telling them to jump off a cliff, a small but significant proportion won't even stop to ask which one.
[June 1, 2001, 18:13]
Fortnight Worm Redirects To Porn Sites
News The lesson is it is not just about patching your servers. Malicious code can be executed just by reading a message in an HTML-aware email client, meaning the user does not need to open an attachment to activate the virus.
[June 23, 2003, 10:55]
Minimal Impact Of Palm Trojan Hides Future Danger
News Other experts also believe that regardless of the danger this Trojan horse program poses, it serves as an important lesson about potential new dangers for handheld computer users. Nevertheless, Cluley believes, the Palm operating system remains...
[August 30, 2000, 14:37]
Microsoft Lifts The Bonnet On XP SP2
News It's a lesson that Microsoft got from Blaster, where the delay between a machine loading and the firewall kicking in was just long enough for malware writers' creations to get a foothold. The default settings will also have all ports closed, except...
[May 14, 2004, 16:45]
Don't Broadcast Info About Windows Servers To Hackers
News And the first lesson in almost all of those guides is to identify the Windows service packs that are installed on the systems you want to attack. Virus protection You may wonder why we would talk about virus protection while discussing ways to keep...
[January 21, 2003, 8:14]
Olympics Arms Against Virus Threat
News It was a good lesson for our people. Since then, concerns about confidentiality have shifted to worries about the growing number of virus and worm attacks. According to data from the FBI, about 82 percent of US businesses were attacked by a virus...
[July 23, 2004, 8:20]
Worm Hits Corporate Networks Hard
News The lesson: It may take a village to teach a child, but it only takes one gullible user to infect an entire company. "Judging from the number of reports we have had, this looks a little less prevalent than Melissa," said David Chess, an anti-virus...
[June 14, 1999, 8:36]
Staying A Step Ahead Of Malware
Leader For businesses, the lesson is clear: use products that slip under the radar of the virus writers. The malware landscape is a notoriously organic environment, with the relationship between virus and antivirus vendors shifting constantly.
[July 26, 2006, 16:55]
JPEG Worm Breaks New Ground
News But for Gullotto, the real lesson is one of foresight. Antivirus companies warned on Thursday of a new virus that communicates through digital images, but security experts aren't sure how much of a threat this latest evolutionary branch of...
[June 14, 2002, 8:46]
Hacking Threat Goes Mobile
News Mobile manufacturers need to start learninng a lesson from the desktop," he said. Experts at London's Infosec computer security conference are betting that wireless computing will provide the next hot spot for hackers, virus writers and computer...
[April 25, 2001, 14:37]
'Prisoner Of Azkaban' Stokes Worm Infections
Talkback I got one suposedly off my husband who had not sent it that really anoyed both of us as i opened the atachment thinking he'd sent me a file but it turned out to be off an unknown sender with the netsky worm .i also got 1 sent as a screen saver and...
[June 5, 2004, 15:05]
The Week In Review: Sobig, Broadband And Ratbots
News The lesson is, be careful what you throw away. Not everyone had it so easy, as in arrivals another virus turned up with its own SMTP engine continuing the trend toward bypassing Outlook. The week started pretty well for some who are attached to the...
[January 17, 2003, 16:54]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog There are lots of nice details -- the processor and the operating system are the same as that on the Mars Rovers (presumably with better file management) -- but the lesson is clear. Infrastructure hacking like this creates whole new layers of...
[February 6, 2004, 15:10]
Code Red Variant Causes Little Alarm
News It looks like people learned a lesson with the first Code Red," he said. The new variant is detected by existing virus signatures for Code Red, according to the companies, and is blocked by patches for Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS...
[March 13, 2003, 8:36]
