Security

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Sasser worm begins to spread

A worm, dubbed Sasser by antivirus firms, was spreading slowly throughout the Internet on Saturday, taking advantage of a vulnerability in unpatched Windows systems to infect new hosts.

Microsoft warns about dangerous Sasser worm

A SECURITY WARNING from Microsoft and from AV companies said that the W32.sasser.worm and variants are marching across the Internet.

Network Associates to change name to McAfee

It's also selling off its Sniffer family of network management software

Cisco fixes critical protocol flaw

Cisco has released a fix to a flaw in a popular communications protocol that some experts said could take down the Net and has announced a new, unrelated security bug.

Microsoft Presents Antispyware Strategy

Deceptive software, also known as spyware, now accounts for more than 50 percent of the Windows failures reported to Microsoft and is becoming an important industry concern. Microsoft's partners report that spyware is the number-one support problem and is costing the industry millions of dollars a year in support costs.

New tool would block illegal song swapping

Network security company Palisade Systems this week will launch software that can identify and block copyrighted songs as they are being traded online.

Flaw could shut down Internet traffic

Major companies and government agencies are scrambling to ensure they are not vulnerable to an Internet flaw that would allow attacks that could disrupt all communication.

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