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Computer World Battles Faster-Moving Viruses
10/4/99, ASHLEY DUNN, Times Staff Writer. A new generation of self-spreading computer viruses has researchers worried that the days of slow-moving, low-level infections are over. Since the creation of computer viruses in the mid-1980s, thousands of them have come and gone, most dying before causing any damage.
Net widens Web of intrigue
9/21/99, JENNY SINCLAIR, Fairfax IT. The Web and free hacker's toolkits are fuelling a new generation of computer saboteurs to the point where it's not a matter of if, but when, your site will be attacked, according to a senior analyst from Australia's peak computer defence organisation.
Urban legends in the online age
11/15/99, PAUL GILSTER, Nando. Phony e-mail messages about everything from virus attacks to cookie recipes abound on the Internet. They're usually just sent out as pranks, to see how big a ripple they can produce in the information pond. And when gullible people fall for them, they create urban myths -- stories that aren't remotely true, yet are believed by numerous people because they're so well circulated.
Cops for One World
5/16/2000, Dana Blankenhorn, ClickZ. Who decides what's illegal? Right now they're going after just hacking, fraud and child pornography, but those targets could easily (and quickly) be joined by others newly deemed illegal.
New Weapons for the Fight Against Spam
9/30/99, Jesse Berst, ZDNet AnchorDesk. Stop being a spam victim. Use these free services to get back at spammers.
Online Privacy and the European Controversy
6/18/99, Andy Oram, Web Review. Designers of major web sites have learned that it's good public relations to post privacy notices. But the current furor over online notices, the emerging specification called P3P ("Platform for Privacy Preferences"), and branding programs like TRUSTe or BBBOnline can become a distraction from deeper issues.
Plugged-In: Internet Privacy Advocates Raise Alarm
11/8/99, Aaron Pressman, Reuters. A public workshop organized by the Federal Trade Commission will examine complaints about so-called profiling, or the practice of tracking consumers' movements online and compiling databases of their activities for use in marketing.
Hotmail - free for all, risk for all?
9/27/99, IT-Director. Following the major security threat to Microsoft's free emailing service, Hotmail, at the end of August it seems its problems continue to persist.
Tips for avoiding millennium bug scams
9/24/99, Vivian Marino, Nando Times. There's something a little scary about the year 2000, and it has nothing to do with the possibility, however remote, that elevators will malfunction, planes will disappear off radar screens or banks will lose track of customers' life savings.
Free E-mail Users Find Their Privacy Violated
9/21/99, HIAWATHA BRAY, The Boston Globe. As many as 4 million users of free electronic mail systems may have been vulnerable to a gaping security hole that would let anybody on the Internet read their mail. The incident is the latest example of the risks involved in using free e-mail systems for private communications.
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