Users: Nimda a tough worm to fight
Cleaning out systems infected by the Nimda worm could prove to be a much harder and more time-consuming task for users than getting rid of other pieces of malicious software.
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Worm hard to fight, but patches are available
The multiple ways in which the Nimda worm is able to propagate makes it that much harder to defend against than other recent worms and viruses, security analysts said. But corporations that apply the latest Microsoft patches and use updated virus-protection software from antivirus vendors appear to be reasonably well protected against it.
Network Associates: solutions to combat Nimba worm
Network Associates on Wednesday released a group of utilities designed to help protect businesses from the rapidly spreading Nimda worm.
Cost of rebuilding IT infrastructures
The price tag for rebuilding IT infrastructures on Wall Street is expected to be approximately US$3.2 billion, according to a report released by TowerGroup, a financial services research company.
Virus protection gets proactive
With antivirus and security markets on the move, Melbourne-based specialist Virus Defence Bureau is looking to grow a distribution and reseller channel for its exclusive InVircible solution.
Viruses getting faster, more clever, specialist says
One in every 300 e-mails circulating now contains a virus, up from one in every 700 in October last year, according to e-mail security company MessageLabs. Viruses are growing in sophistication and are thus able to propagate themselves faster and more effectively, the company said Wednesday in a statement regarding the Nimda virus, which surfaced Tuesday.
Nimda worm slows, some see continued spread
Despite a splashy entrance and a comprehensive set of attacks, the Nimda worm that spread quickly across the Internet Tuesday has slowed its pace Wednesday and is no longer substantially affecting network traffic, according to a number of Internet monitoring firms. Not all groups monitoring Nimda's spread, however, are so ready to write it off.
Major new worm poses serious threat
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.
US ATTACK: Stock markets to test networks before Monday reopening
The nation's two principal equities markets, the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq, plan to test communications networks tomorrow for a planned Monday morning opening. The tests are designed to ensure they will work with "market-making" brokerages moved to alternate locations after the World Trade Center disaster.
US ATTACK: IT community steps up to volunteer
First there was shock. Then panic. Then grief. Then action. As relief workers looked for survivors amid the rubble from Tuesday's terrorist attacks, the IT community came together by the thousands to help rebuild the New York businesses that literally crumbled to the ground.
US ATTACK: The toll of terror on Wall Street
Financial services firms may have to spend billions of dollars to replace IT equipment and software in the wake of this week's terrorist attack on New York's World Trade Center, said industry experts. But customer and business-critical data appear to have been saved by robust automated remote data-backup technologies and effective disaster-prevention strategies.
US ATTACK: NY airports closed again, 10 reported detained
Ten people were reportedly being detained by US authorities Thursday night after being taken into custody at New York area airports when they were found to be carrying false identification and knives, and at least some of them reportedly were carrying documents indicating they can fly commercial airplanes, according to ABC News.
US ATTACK: Tech exec death toll continues to grow
The list of information technology executives who fell victim to Tuesday's attacks grows as airlines make public the passenger manifests from the four planes that were hijacked and crashed into the World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon and the Pennsylvania countryside.
US ATTACK: FBI to investigate Internet's role in attacks
More than 22,700 tips have poured into the special Web site set up by the FBI to manage leads in the investigation of Tuesday's terrorist attack against the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon, Attorney General John Ashcroft said today.
US ATTACK: FBI issues cyberthreat advisory
The FBI Counterterrorism division here has issued an advisory to all public- and private-sector members of the InfraGard program to beef up physical and cybersecurity efforts in the aftermath of yesterday's deadly terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon.
US ATTACK: Attacks expected to change intelligence policy
The terrorist attacks in Washington and New York, and the apparent failure of US government intelligence agencies to predict or stop the attacks, will lead to a change in the way high-tech intelligence-gathering technologies, such as Echelon and Carnivore, are deployed, experts said Wednesday.
US ATTACK: Tech execs killed in terrorism attacks
At least six top executives of technology companies were among those killed Tuesday when the aircraft they were traveling on were hijacked and flown into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
US ATTACK: Tragedy sends Kiwis, Aussies online en masse
In the period immediately following the first attack on the New York World Trade Centre, New Zealand and Australian web surfers flocked to US news sites to monitor the rapidly developing situation, says Nielsen//NetRatings.
US ATTACK: Companies warned about possible cyberattacks
Government and private-sector security experts fear that today's attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon are only the beginning of a wave of assaults that could include cyberterrorism.
US ATTACK: Telecom companies hit with high call volumes
In the wake of the disaster at the World Trade Center, AT&T Wireless Group Inc. reported losing access to some network sites based near or at the Manhattan office complex Tuesday. AT&T, AT&T Wireless, and Sprint said an inundation of calls was taxing their networks, although calls still were going through.
