Web Vipers: Computer Users Must Guard Against Threats Posed by Spam, Viruses And Hackers -- Or Else

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New Technology Makes the Fight Against
Hackers Spam and Viruses Easier, Cheaper

New Technology Makes the Fight Against
Hackers Spam and Viruses Easier, Cheaper 09/09/2004 03:14 AM
Greencomputer's PowerElf® II Server Appliance Cut Costs for SMB/Enterprise, by providing a cheap and complete solution. [PRWEB Sep 9, 2004]

Keeping Watch for Interstellar Computer
Viruses and Hackers from Space

Keeping Watch for Interstellar Computer
Viruses and Hackers from Space 11/13/2003 01:46 AM
Security News Portal Nov 13 2003 1:02AM ET

Too many computer users vulnerable to
viruses, says Microsoft attorney

Too many computer users vulnerable to
viruses, says Microsoft attorney 04/24/2004 03:36 AM
Seattle Times Apr 24 2004 8:17AM GMT

Aplus.Net Protects Customers from Spam
and Computer Viruses

Aplus.Net Protects Customers from Spam
and Computer Viruses 12/02/2003 04:15 AM
TopHosts.com Dec 2 2003 3:10AM ET

16 Percent Of Computer Users Are
Unaffected By Viruses, Malware Because
They Use Apple Macs

16 Percent Of Computer Users Are
Unaffected By Viruses, Malware Because
They Use Apple Macs 06/05/2005 10:47 PM

By MacDailyNews

Threats, Viruses, and Hacks

Threats, Viruses, and Hacks 12/30/2003 01:23 AM
I was recently a guest at the Utah Valley State College - Security Summit in which I participated as a presenter. But in an effort to spread the word of security, and perhaps let those of you in the same...

Review: Advanced Spam Manager Attacks
Viruses, Spam For Exchange, Notes

Review: Advanced Spam Manager Attacks
Viruses, Spam For Exchange, Notes 03/27/2005 12:35 PM
Information Week Mar 27 2005 3:25PM GMT

Linux keeps dodging hackers and viruses

Linux keeps dodging hackers and viruses 08/02/2004 08:58 PM

Hackers continue to experiment with
64-bit viruses

Hackers continue to experiment with
64-bit viruses 08/27/2004 05:47 PM
Personal Computer World Aug 27 2004 9:52PM GMT

Viruses and hackers make Windows more
secure - Gates

Viruses and hackers make Windows more
secure - Gates 01/27/2004 10:17 AM
Maturing the Platform

Japanese IT businesses turn to Gods to
ward off viruses, hackers

Japanese IT businesses turn to Gods to
ward off viruses, hackers 01/07/2004 07:12 PM

A year in viruses It's been a vintage
year for malicious computer viruses

A year in viruses It's been a vintage
year for malicious computer viruses 12/31/2003 05:02 AM
BBC Dec 31 2003 4:53AM ET

Spam And Viruses Down?

Spam And Viruses Down? 09/08/2004 02:29 PM
It's only one month's worth of data (and only data from one company), but MessageLabs is claiming that spam and viruses decreased in August. It could just be that, like everyone else, spammers took vacations in August. However, some are suggesting that the US crackdo wn on spam operations may have helped. Of course, it should also be noted that that the creator of six of the ten top viruses is currently sitting in a German jail after charged with computer sabotage, which might just explain the slowdown in virus activity. Unfortunately, it's likely that others will come along to fill in the empty spaces left by those arrested until a longer term solution to spam is developed.

OSDL tells users to ignore SCO threats

OSDL tells users to ignore SCO threats 02/11/2004 09:44 AM
vnunet.com Feb 11 2004 2:12PM GMT

Mac Users, Developers Reconciled to
Security Threats

Mac Users, Developers Reconciled to
Security Threats 05/26/2004 05:00 PM
Despite continued warnings of vulnerabilities from security vendors, Mac OS X users and developers sounded a sanguine note in the face of potential exploits.

New infectious Web sites put users on
guard

New infectious Web sites put users on
guard 06/25/2004 11:55 AM
Security researchers and the Homeland Security department warned Web surfers on Thursday to be on guard after uncovering evidence that widespread Web server compromises have turned large corporate sites into places of infection. The researches believe and an organized group is breaking into servers and inserting code that takes advantage of two unfixed flaws in Internet Explorer. The flaws allow the servers running Microsoft’s Internet Information Server (IIS) 5 to download code from another server. The CERT is telling users to turn of JavaScript. More…

The Deadly Duo: Spam and Viruses, May
2004

The Deadly Duo: Spam and Viruses, May
2004 06/08/2004 04:15 AM

Microsoft aiming at spam, viruses

Microsoft aiming at spam, viruses 11/18/2003 07:51 PM
"Microsoft has not had merger discussions with Internet search engine Google, as was widely reported, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates says." (Peter Raymond)

Microsoft aims at spam, viruses

Microsoft aims at spam, viruses 11/17/2003 02:05 AM
USA Today Nov 17 2003 1:34AM ET

Email viruses are more annoying than
spam

Email viruses are more annoying than
spam 06/15/2004 03:47 AM
I've had my primary email address for many years, and I also get email through a number of work-related aliases, including editors at newsforge.com, roblimo at slashdot.org, and rmiller at osdn.com. So I get spam. Tons of spam. And I filter it all. I filter viruses, too, not because they can affect my Linux computer, but because they suck up bandwidth. And my virus email traffic now exceeds my spam traffic by a factor of at least two to one.

A Visual History Of Spam And Viruses

A Visual History Of Spam And Viruses 09/17/2004 08:13 PM
A Microsoft employee with some extra time and plenty of spam on his hands has decided to graph out all the spam and viruses he's received since 1997. He's only graphing out the spam that makes it through the corporate spam filter, but it still shows just how much spam has grown over the years. The graph shows spam against the size of the messages, but actually suggests that the Microsoft spam filter has gotten better recently.

Telewest blames viruses for lost
broadband users

Telewest blames viruses for lost
broadband users 11/06/2003 11:10 AM
ZDNet UK Nov 6 2003 9:24AM ET

Mac Users, Developers Reconciled to
Security Threats (Ziff Davis)

Mac Users, Developers Reconciled to
Security Threats (Ziff Davis) 05/26/2004 07:41 PM
Ziff Davis - Despite continued warnings of vulnerabilities from security vendors, Mac OS X users and developers sounded a sanguine note in the face of potential exploits.

Tests Highlight Cyber-Threats Facing
Home PC Users

Tests Highlight Cyber-Threats Facing
Home PC Users 09/05/2004 10:05 PM
Scoop Sep 6 2004 2:42AM GMT

Gates: Microsoft aiming at spam, viruses

Gates: Microsoft aiming at spam, viruses 11/17/2003 04:16 AM
USA Today Nov 17 2003 3:21AM ET

Viruses and spam hit small firms harder

Viruses and spam hit small firms harder 06/15/2004 10:00 AM
Costly diversion

Do We Need A Hybrid Approach To Fighting
Spam And Viruses?

Do We Need A Hybrid Approach To Fighting
Spam And Viruses? 05/07/2004 12:11 PM
There's an ongoing battle about how to best fight threats like spam and viruses (and spyware and trojans and worms, etc...). Some think that it should be at the network level, where an ISP or a company can set up filters, while others believe it needs to be at the desktop. In an interview with the CTO for MessageLabs (makers of "managed email security products" - so you know where his bias is) he makes the compelling case for moving the protection up to the network level (of course, he means using MessageLabs' solution). His argument is that you can keep filters much more up-to-date at the network level, even to the point of updating them multiple times per day. It also removes the hassle of end-users getting anywhere near some of these malicious files - some of which use social engineering tricks to get users to do things they shouldn't. Of course, he's only telling half the story. Blocking at the network level is increasingly becoming a necessity, but it assumes that users always access the internet in the same way. These days, with laptops and things like WiFi, people access the internet from many different places, and you don't always know who's managing the network protection. You also don't know who might be connecting to your local network - and what sort of nasty stuff they've already been exposed to. It seems that a hybrid approach is going to become increasingly important. Some have said the trend needs to move from "scan and block" to "comply and connect" - which may represent the hybrid approach that things are heading towards. You allow most of the filtering to still occur on the network, but you don't allow an individual machine to connect to a network unless it's been shown to "comply" with whatever security policies have been established. While more corporate users are moving in this direction, it may be time for residential broadband service providers to look at providing similar solutions themselves. The issue, as always, is how much control people are willing to give their service providers. No one wants to be denied a connection because suddenly their ISP says they haven't complied with some weird security aspect that the user knows they have complied with. However, as these malicious attacks get worse, it's likely that we're going to move closer to a world where getting on the network is going to mean proving you're clean, while network level machines will be required to block out the nastiest attacks.

Spam-seeding viruses dominate August
charts

Spam-seeding viruses dominate August
charts 09/01/2004 09:13 PM

Top 20 computer threats unveiled

Top 20 computer threats unveiled 06/17/2005 02:17 PM
News.bbc.co.uk - Fri Jun 10, 01:54 pm GMT

Art/culture of computer viruses

Art/culture of computer viruses 09/24/2004 05:36 AM
David Pescovitz: BB friend Alessandro Ludovico of Neural.it magazine points us to "I love you (rev.eng): The Aesthetics of Computer Viruses," an exhibit he's involved with that prem iered in Germany and is now on view at Brown University in the US:

"I love you [rev.eng]" is divided into four investigative areas - political, cultural, technical and historical - and focuses on the controversial positions of security experts and hackers, of net artists and programmers, of literature experts and code poets...

What can visitors to the "I love you [rev.eng]" exhibition expect?

- Force computers to crash with "Sasser" or "Suicide"
- Experience a global virus outbreak in real time via a 3D world
- View security concepts and methods for preventing global network attacks
- Witness computer viruses as works of art like "biennale.py" and "The Lovers"
- See films by hackers on their subculture
- Learn about programming languages as the material for contemporary poetry
- Juxtapose experimental literature and code poetry

Link (to Brown exhibition details) Link (to Wired News article)

Who's Getting Rich on Computer Viruses?

Who's Getting Rich on Computer Viruses? 06/09/2004 11:36 PM
Enterprise Security Today Jun 10 2004 4:02AM GMT

Battle all computer viruses

Battle all computer viruses 11/06/2003 01:26 PM
Chicago Tribune Nov 6 2003 12:54PM ET

Computer Viruses Likely to Merge

Computer Viruses Likely to Merge 05/08/2004 09:12 AM
novinite.com May 8 2004 1:27PM GMT

Computer Viruses are Bad Luck

Computer Viruses are Bad Luck 07/07/2004 04:18 PM
WebDevInfo Jul 7 2004 8:32PM GMT

LaneChange.net Launches Service to
Protect Businesses from Spam and Viruses

LaneChange.net Launches Service to
Protect Businesses from Spam and Viruses 06/07/2004 04:09 AM
Cost effective solution offers real-time server threat protection against Spam, worms and computer viruses without up-front hardware costs. [PRWEB Jun 7, 2004]

Geeky jargon leaves UK Internet users
more vulnerable to online scams and
viruses

Geeky jargon leaves UK Internet users
more vulnerable to online scams and
viruses 04/05/2005 09:13 AM
Prosperity4 Apr 5 2005 12:40PM GMT

Mac Hole Has Users, Hackers Abuzz

Mac Hole Has Users, Hackers Abuzz 05/20/2004 05:35 AM
The first major security flaw in OS X was publicized Tuesday, and it has already inspired a burst of cracker creativity. But according to a German Web designer, Apple knew about the problem in February. By Leander Kahney.

2003 computer viruses damage put at
US$55b

2003 computer viruses damage put at
US$55b 01/17/2004 11:21 PM
Xinhuanet Jan 18 2004 0:36AM GMT

Size no barrier to computer viruses

Size no barrier to computer viruses 07/20/2004 09:11 PM
The Advertiser Jul 21 2004 1:24AM GMT
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