Paul Roberts

Almost a week after it first appeared on the Internet, the Fizzer worm appears to be losing momentum, but experts disagree on whether or not the new computer virus has peaked.

The CERT Coordination Center is warning Internet users to beware of a new e-mail-borne threat that could allow an attacker to run malicious code on a victim's computer.

After successfully creating a new domestic security framework since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the federal government must tackle the bigger job of building on that framework and putting new security systems and procedures into place, according to a senior White House advisor on science and technology policy.

New technology built into Microsoft Corp.'s Exchange Server 2003 e-mail server will be the foundation of better and more effective antispam and antivirus products in the months to come, the company said in a statement last month.

Oracle Corp. released a patch for a recently-discovered critical security vulnerability affecting its database servers. The buffer overflow vulnerability affects all supported versions of Oracle database servers and could enable a remote attacker to compromise the data stored in Oracle and gain control over the machine hosting the database server, according to a security alert posted by Oracle.

In the latest example of computer virus writers capitalizing on current events, a new e-mail worm uses fears about severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) to entice users into opening a file attachment, infecting host machines and helping spread the virus to other machines on the Internet.

Cisco Systems Inc. is offering a new mobile telephone for use with its IP Communications systems and voice over IP (VoIP) technology, the company said Monday.

In the latest example of computer virus writers capitalizing on current events, a new e-mail worm uses fears about severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) to entice users into opening a file attachment, infecting host machines and helping spread the virus to other machines on the Internet.