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Comment Dilemmas of Privacy and Surveillance: Challenges of Technological Change makes sober reading in the light of recent events but it also offers a series of sensible recommendations spanning systems design, risk analysis, regulation, auditing and... [17 Dec 2007]
SSM - The Other Half of Storage Management
White Paper But after several years of customer adoption, the initial excitement over SRM is giving way to a more sober assessment of where it works and where it does not. Storage Resource Management (SRM) applications have been positioned as solutions for... [06 Jul 2007]
Regional Threats
White Paper New families and new variants of threats, such as W32.Sober, W32.Blackmal, and W32.Beagle attack systems across the world every day. These threats attempt to infect any system they can reach and propagate worldwide. [15 Dec 2006]
Leader: Linux vs Windows - is the battle over?
Leader But these days the debate sounds much more sober. Remember the Battle of the Desktop? A few years ago excitement began to grow - could Windows at last have a strong competitor in the shape of open source Linux? [08 Nov 2006]
Hardening Government Network Security Also Reduces TCO by $150,000 a Year With Symantec Solutions
White Paper An IT team providing technology services to the local governments of the City of Omaha and Douglas County, Nebraska, DOT.Comm saw a sharp increase in attacks in 2004 from threats such as SOBER and Netsky. [26 Aug 2006]
Microsoft's plans for 'new JPEG' leave users cold
News The reader wrote: "Let's be sober here in saying that anybody arguing that this isn't going to be a new standard, must be disillusioned. The world is ready for a new photo compression format to rival the ubiquitous JPEG, according to readers of... [01 Jun 2006]
Shut down Sober-infected PCs, ISPs urged
News ISPs were urged on Monday to check their user traffic patterns to locate and shut down machines infected with the mass-mailing Sober worm. Although Sober is no longer trying to replicate, antivirus company F-Secure believes ISPs must warn infected... [10 Jan 2006]
Sober attack shouldn't bite, say antivirus experts
News The Sober attack predicted to occur on 6 January should not be a problem, antivirus experts said on Wednesday. As reported last month, machines that were infected by Sober in November have the potential to download malicious code from certain... [04 Jan 2006]
Was your business at risk for 56 days this year?
News IronPort claims businesses were unprotected against Bagle, Goldun, MyDoom, MyTob and Sober and their variants for a total of 1,335 hours - or nearly 56 days. The company claims CA, Kaspersky Labs, McAfee, Sophos, Symantec and Trend Micro were... [19 Dec 2005]
Sober virus code cracked by security firms
News Antivirus companies say they have cracked an algorithm that was being used by the Sober worm to "communicate" with its author. The latest variant of the Sober worm caused havoc in November by duping users into executing it by masking itself as... [12 Dec 2005]
Expect worms in the New Year, say experts
News A new outbreak of Sober may be coming, security experts have warned, even as email systems worldwide work to get rid of the last infestation of the mass-mailing worm. The next attack is hard-coded in the version of Sober that hit the net on 22... [08 Dec 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 25.11.05
Round-Up Because of the jam it wasn't until the machine was fixed, the office party long over and largely forgotten, and her colleagues all (probably) sober, that the copies of her backside started pouring from the machine. [25 Nov 2005]
Confessions of a photocopier repair man
News Geoff Bush from the north of England said one case he'd attended, where a young lady had cracked the glass mid-scan, also jammed the scanner so that it wasn't until the machine was fixed and her colleagues all sober that copies of her backside... [23 Nov 2005]
Sober alert over Paris Hilton 'attachment'
News A new variant of the Sober worm made the network rounds on Tuesday, attempting to entice people into clicking on attachments purporting to be threats from the FBI or videos clips of Paris Hilton and her reality TV co-star Nicole Richie. [23 Nov 2005]
Virus alert: Sober trio in the wild
News There are at least three new variants of the Sober worm spreading across the internet via email messages. The new variants of Sober, a worm that first appeared in 2003, are capable of disabling antivirus programs, according to Finland-based company... [16 Nov 2005]
