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Courtesy the Overseas Security Advisory Council
Thursday February 06, 2003
19 Charged in Identity Theft That Netted $7 Million in Tax Refunds (Original) Federal prosecutors in Manhattan have charged 19 people with being part of an identity theft ring in the Bronx that obtained at least $7 million in federal tax refunds by filing thousands of fraudulen...
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An Internet Shakedown?; Trial Begins For Man Accused of Trying to Extort Bloomberg (Original) The trial of a Kazakhstan man charged with hacking into Bloomberg L.P. computers opened yesterday with prosecutors painting Michael Bloomberg as a do-gooder who stood up to an extortionist.
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Civic Group Considers Pressing Charges Against Microsoft for Internet Crash (Original) A leading civic group is gearing to take legal action against Microsoft, the creator of the computer software blamed for the disastrous Internet crash last month.
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Computer Hacker Convicted of Spying on Judge (Original) It only took a jury two hours to agree on convicting a Pittsburgh man on three counts of unauthorized access to a protected computer. Evidence showed that Brian T. Ferguson, 43, gained access to the A...
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IM Creates 'Rampant Security Risk' (Original) Some IT managers are concerned that IM can send files that are not virus-checked past corporate firewalls , creating a threat to network security
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India Gets its First Cyber Convict (Original) A 24-year-old engineer from Delhi has earned the dubious distinction of being the first person in India to be convicted for a cyber crime. A city court convicted Asif Azim for using an American citize...
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Microsoft Releases Patch for IE Flaw (Original) Microsoft on Wednesday advised Internet Explorer customers to apply a patch for a vulnerability that could allow a Web site administrator to steal data or take control of a person's PC.
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Networks Suffer from Wireless Insecurity (Original) If you want to know how insecure today's wireless networks are, just ask the people who make it their mission to locate the access points designated by companies and consumers around the world.
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New Straits Times - Computimes (Malaysia) (Original) CABLE News Network (CNN) carried out a random online survey on the topic
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Radio's Website Jammed By Tit-for-tat DoS Attack (Original) Encouraging its readers to visit Dutch Radio 538's website at a fixed time on the evening of February 4th, weblogger Retecool.com paralysed the radio's web server and put it out of action for more tha...
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Security Market to Hit $45 Billion by 2006 (Original) Despite sluggishness elsewhere in the information technology sector, the market for security-related hardware, software, and services will continue to experience healthy growth, swelling to more than ...
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Slammer: Why Security Benefits From Proof of Concept Code (Original) The UK security expert who discovered the flaw which was exploited by the Slammer worm has concluded it does more good than harm to publish proof of concept code.
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Smallpot: Tracking the Slapper and Scalper Unix Worms (Original) Fueled by the old myth that "you can't get a virus in Unix" and by the increasing popularity of Linux and FreeBSD, Unix viruses passed an important milestone in 2001 and continued by receiving even mo...
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Spammers Exploit Windows Messaging Tool (Original) A form of nuisance advertisement that began appearing on the Internet in the fall is proliferating, but annoyed computer owners have a number of options for fighting back, security experts say.
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Terrorist Group Claims Responsibility for Slammer (Original)
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Warning Over Hacker's Guide (Original) TRANSPORT experts have warned that a new website showing how to hack into traffic light computer systems could wreak havoc in London.
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