Sam Costello

On the heels of the Code Red and Nimda worms that plagued the Internet

A new worm that can delete files from infected hard drives is using the terrorist attacks of two weeks ago, as well as the expected U.S. military response, to trick users into executing it, according to Ian Hameroff, business manager for security solutions at Computer Associates International Inc (CA).

The worldwide market for information security services will nearly triple to US$21 billion by 2005, up from about US$6.7 billion in 2000, according to new research released Thursday by International Data Corp. (IDC)

The slump in the technology sector bottomed out in May and spending will increase, if by only small amounts, over the next 12 months, according to a new poll of chief information officers (CIOs) and other high-level managers conducted by CIO Magazine (U.S.) and Yardeni.com

Antivirus vendor Trend Micro Inc. has been granted a patent on a system designed to fight viruses and other malicious code sent through Java and ActiveX

The National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC), the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation's cybersecurity agency, issued an advisory Tuesday warning against the possibility of increased Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks coming as a result of the terrorist attacks against targets in New York and near Washington, D.C., a week ago.

A new worm that can infect all 32-bit Windows computers and propagates using multiple methods has spread across the world Tuesday morning, according to Roger Thompson, technical director of malicious code at TruSecure Corp.

Though he was arrested after Adobe Systems Inc. complained to the U.S. government about a program he had written and the company has since called for charges against him to be dropped, Adobe has no obligation or responsibility to aid indicted Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov, Adobe general counsel Colleen Pouliot said Friday.