Saturday, August 23, 2003

Internet quiet as Sobig attack deadline passes. The deadline passed quietly as security experts continued to stave off the Sobig.F worm by blocking 20 infected servers supplied with instructions to download and run a special file. [Computerworld News] 11:53:23 PM    comment []

MontaVista swats back at SCO. The company, a specialist in Linux-based software for embedded devices, advises customers not to pay anything to SCO for Linux licensing plans. [CNET News.com - Enterprise] 11:52:32 PM    comment []

Pop-ups annoy, but do they work?. Wharton experts try to figure out just how annoying pop-up ads really are and whether intrusive necessarily means ineffective. [CNET News.com] 11:52:08 PM    comment []

Opportunism, spam behind new worms. Windows vulnerability presents a target [InfoWorld: Security] 2:12:25 PM    comment []

SCO CEO says IBM behind open source attacks. IBM Corp. has been quietly stage-managing the open source community's response to The SCO Group Inc.'s $3 billion lawsuit over Big Blue's contributions to the Linux source code, SCO's Chief Executive Officer Darl McBride said in an interview at his company's SCO Forum user conference in Las Vegas this week. [InfoWorld: Top News] 2:12:02 PM    comment []

No Denying New Switch Vulnerability. Security Manager's Journal: When tests confirm that a newly discovered denial-of-service vulnerability on Cisco hardware is a threat, Mathias Thurman must decide how to resolve the problem with minimal disruption. [Computerworld Security Manager's Journal] 2:11:40 PM    comment []

Sobig virus wreaks e-mail havoc. The Sobig virus looks set to keep causing trouble, millions of infected e-mails still flying across the net. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition] 2:11:14 PM    comment []

CNet: Digital-cable devices could hit retail. What the article doesn't mention is that the OpenCable licensing agreement bans almost all interesting devices in the name of copy protection. (Recording cable straight onto a DVD? Dream on.) [Hack the Planet] 2:10:56 PM    comment []

SCO Says IBM is Beating Up on Them [Slashdot] 2:10:26 PM    comment []

Worm's double whammy. Networks experience disruption as an old virus reappears as a mass-mailing machine and an MSBlast variant that patches the original vulnerability spread. [CNET News.com - Enterprise] 2:10:03 PM    comment []

Security experts race to beat Sobig. A frantic global hunt is under way to find and switch off 20 home computers as the Sobig.F virus threatens to unleash a crippling barrage of data across the Net. [CNET News.com - Enterprise] 2:09:33 PM    comment []