A daily survey of the latest cybercrime news from around the world.
MSNBC: EU Clamping Down on Cybercrime 19-Apr-02 12:45:37 ET
Story Highlights:“The European Union has pledged to clamp down on so-called cybercrime, aimed at destroying computer networks, which has caused billions of dollars in damage worldwide…”
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“‘Organized hacking groups specialized in hacking and defacement of Web sites are more and more active at worldwide level,’ the Commission said in the proposal…”
Washington Post: Be Ready To Repel Viruses, Old and New 21-Apr-02 08:44:15 ET
Story Highlights:“The trench warfare between virus authors and their victims reached an absurd extreme in early March, when an e-mail from the ‘Microsoft Corporation Security Center’ landed in my inbox…”
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“The message, informing me of vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, Outlook and Outlook Express programs, included an attached security-update file to fix them…”
CNN: ‘Klez’ Worm Variant: Moderate Threat 19-Apr-02 06:54:11 ET
Story Highlights:“A new variant of a worm that takes advantage of vulnerabilities in unpatched Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Outlook Express software is spreading in the wild, and antivirus vendors have placed its threat to a category 3 (of a possible 5)…”
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“The mass-mailing Win32.Klez.H@mm worm is a variant of the ‘Klez’ worm that was first reported in October…”
ComputerWorld: Survey Reveals Unexpected Drop in Insider Attacks 22-Apr-02 11:20:36 ET
Story Highlights:“Some experts are questioning recent findings that defy the conventional wisdom that insiders constitute the primary threat to enterprise security…”
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“Only 38% of the 455 respondents to the latest computer crime survey sponsored by the FBI and the San Francisco-based Computer Security Institute (CSI) said they had detected insider attacks during the preceding 12 months…”
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