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Living up to its namesake, the Mydoom e-mail borne worm succeeded in bringing sco.com to a grinding halt on Sunday as thousands of infected computers launched a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the Lindon Utah-based The SCO Group Inc.'s primary Web site.

Of lawsuits, malware and spam

Chris Conrath - February 19, 2004

Lawyers and the law tend to exist only in the background in the world of IT. In fact, they mostly pop into the picture around contract signing time. But the events of the past few weeks have prompted me to take a closer look at the increasing role being played by the legal profession in the IT world.

Spam elimination techniques proposed

Patricia Pickett - February 19, 2004

Although some industry pundits recently predicted that spam will slow down to a trickle by 2006, others are wondering whether that's possible without first solving the problem of e-mail anonymity.

Zone Labs supports more devices, Check Point VPNs

Tim Greene - February 19, 2004

Zone Labs Inc. is introducing a new version of its security software that increases the types of 802.1x wireless devices that it supports to include handhelds and phones, letting customers ensure specified security measures are in place before those devices are allowed wireless network access.

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Understanding Cybersecurity on Smartphones (UCS-Sph) Part 2

MohammadMoein Shafi and Arash Habibi Lashkari - March 5, 2024

This second article of the Understanding Cybersecurity on Smartphones (UCS-Sph) series delves into Microsoft's Windows Phone, a mobile OS that has undergone significant changes...