A daily survey of the latest cybercrime news from around the world.
The Register: The Valentine’s Day Virus Massacre 11-Feb-02 01:02:13 ET
Story Highlights:“Exchanging electronic Valentine’s cards and downloading romance-themed programs from the Internet increases the risk of spreading viruses…”
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“Disguising worms as greetings cards has become a popular ploy for virus writers…”
Internet.com: Websense, SonicWALL Got You Covered Inside and Out 07-Feb-02 17:02:32 ET
Story Highlights:“Internet security companies Websense Inc. and SonicWALL Thursday outlined their strategy to protect your data — mostly from your employees…”
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“Computer-related risk has become the national obsession as of late…”
MSNBC: Experts Vote Down Internet Elections 07-Feb-02 00:31:08 ET
Story Highlights:“After several years debating minimum requirements for voting equipment, the computer science and public policy communities appear to agree that the Internet – as it exists today — can’t sufficiently safeguard the privacy, security and reliability of the voting process…”
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“Another privacy problem: no matter how secure the Internet voting servers, voters’ own computers would still be vulnerable to hackers…”
ZDNET UK: Digital ID: You Shop, They Snoop? 11-Feb-02 11:02:26 ET
Story Highlights:“Sun Microsystems has joined a program called Auto-ID to build wireless digital identification tags into everything from razor blades to soup…”
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“But building transponders into every sort of product could spark privacy concerns, said David Holtzman, an Internet security researcher and former Network Solutions chief technology officer…”
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