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Courtesy the Overseas Security Advisory Council
Wednesday January 15, 2003
Avril Worm Upgraded to High-Risk (Original) The mass-mailing Avril worm and its variants spiked on virus prevalence charts last week ranking second only to the longstanding winner, Klez.H.
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Child Porn: Even Surfing Can Mean Jail (Original) LONDON, England (CNN) -- Even so much as clicking on a Web site featuring child pornography could result in a jail sentence of up to five years in the United Kingdom.
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Credit Card Fraud Help Policies Vary (Original) Last month, both Charles Bowman and Kelly Smith were scammed out of $2,200 by the same eBay con artist. Both paid for a new laptop computer that never came. Both used PayPal to send the money. But Smi...
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First Fight the Hackers (Original) The government should make doubly sure of the security of its e-government and e-procurement networks from hackers before promoting them heavily, a security guru warned yesterday.
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Head of Anti-terrorism Panel Wary of Data Mining (Original) The Pentagon's proposed Total Information Awareness (TIA) project must be watched "very closely" to ensure that Americans' civil liberties do not fall victim to massive data-mining tools that could be...
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Homeland Security IT Cost $2.9 billion (Original) The U.S. government spent at least $2.9 billion in 2002 on information technology related to homeland security and will spend at least that amount again this year, Congress' auditing arm said.
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Instant Insecurity: Security Issues of Instant Messaging (Original) Instant messaging is an increasingly popular method for communicating over the Internet. Instant messaging (IM) is a real-time supplement to and, in some regards, a replacement for e-mailing. Unlike e...
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More Computer Viruses Seen in '03 (Original) Anti-virus firm expects 600-700 new viruses a month to target e-mail instant messaging systems.
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Plugging Security Holes (Original) The technology environment at agencies is always changing, with new threats emerging and new services being developed that must then be secured against internal and external misuse. Fortunately, the s...
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RIAA Calls Hacking Claim a Hoax (Original) A warning about a widespread vulnerability in music playing software has turned out to be a joke - at least partly
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Spam Confab: Hackers to Rescue? (Original) Hackers from around the world will converge on MIT on Friday to swap intelligence and marshal their collective brainpower for the fight against a seemingly indomitable opponent.
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Vendors Mum on Ethernet Driver Warnings (Original) Despite being informed six months ago of a potentially serious security hole that may exist in Ethernet device drivers, many leading software and hardware manufacturers have yet to indicate whether th...
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