Security
C|net, 7/6/04: The attack of the $2 million worm
Internet-based business disruptions triggered by worms and viruses are costing companies an average of nearly $2 million in lost revenue per incident, market researcher Aberdeen said on Tuesday.
Out of 162 companies contacted, 84 percent said their business operations have been disrupted and disabled by Internet security events during the last three years. Though the average rate of business operations disruption was one incident per year, about 15 percent of the surveyed companies said their operations had been halted and disabled more than seven times over a three-year period.
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C|net, 7/6/04: Fear of viruses and poor protection grows
By Will Sturgeon
Three-quarters of European businesses surveyed said they believe viruses will become more dangerous, while two-thirds believe the frequency of attacks will increase, according to e-mail security firm MessageLabs.
Natasha Staley, information security analyst at MessageLabs, said Tuesday that given the massive increase in virus activity over the past couple of years, it's likely this alarming growth will continue.
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Computerworld, 7/6/04: E-mail glitch exposes private data in California
The incident could be the first major test of the state's privacy law
News Story by Dan Verton
IT officials in Contra Costa County, Calif., today launched a countywide investigation into how hundreds of internal e-mails containing private employee data were sent out inadvertently to a Swedish company.
The investigation was launched after Computerworld notified the county that Robert Carlesten, a 26-year-old managing director of Internet company Ord&Bild, based in Karlstad, Sweden, could produce dozens of e-mails he said have been arriving at his Internet.ac domain regularly for the past two years.
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eWeek, 7/6/04: Enterprises Slow to Dump IE
By Matt Hicks
The calls to dump Internet Explorer may be getting louder, but they are falling lagely on deaf ears among enterprise users.
IT managers and users say that while the rash of security flaws associated with IE has drawn new attention to its vulnerabilities and has led some individuals to switch browsers, enterprises are reluctant to change browsers because of their reliance on IE-specific intranet applications and Web sites.
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Microsoft
C|net, 7/6/04: Ballmer: Microsoft needs better sales pitch
By Ina Fried
Microsoft needs to do a better job of convincing customers that the latest versions of its products are worth having, CEO Steve Ballmer said in a companywide e-mail on Tuesday.
Ballmer said that one way to make Microsoft products more useful is to offer more tailored versions of its main products. The company has already expanded the number of versions of Office and is also working to offer more specialized versions of Windows Server, such as a forthcoming version for high-end computing.
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