Headline Feeds
A daily survey of the latest cybercrime news from around the world.
31-Jan-03 12:31:58 ET
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"The Bush administration is quietly assembling an Internet-wide monitoring center to detect and respond to attacks on vital information systems and key e-commerce sites..."
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"The center, which has been in development for the past 15 months, is a key piece of the White House's national cybersecurity strategy and represents a major leap in the federal government's effort to achieve real-time tracking of the Internet's health..."
30-Jan-03 19:01:50 ET
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"It is somewhat intriguing that Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) blithely casts the blame for the Slammer worm on all those sysadmins who have neglected to apply the latest patches to their SQLServer systems..."
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"But there are a number of things which have been ignored. Firstly, Microsoft has never offered a specific patch for the exploit used by this worm..."
30-Jan-03 18:07:45 ET
Story Highlights:
"A consortium of 23 security research institutions is calling on the government and private companies to put more research and development muscle into cybersecurity..."
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"Among other things, the group would like to see more effort put into the development of code vulnerability scanners and technology for scanning individual computers for sources of attacks..."
31-Jan-03 11:09:35 ET
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"Fed up with hackers, a flood of spam and lousy connections, Italian Roman Catholics have launched a search for a patron saint of the Internet..."
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"And they hope their online poll will yield a holy Web protector by Easter..."
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