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...them--and that's everybody--you're at risk of inconvenience, intrusion or, technologists fear, much worse. Building better defenses to protect home computers, business networks and civic infrastructure must therefore be--however cliched it is to say--the Next Big Thing. In 1999 security incidents reported to the CERT Command Center, a federally funded research group, totaled 9,859; from January to September of this year, there were 114,855. Security spending has grown 28% a year since 2001, the Gartner research firm reports, while overall tech budgets have expanded just 6%. And a three-day war game...
First detected in July, the virus infects Microsoft Windows computers, mailing out the computer’s files and sometimes filling the hard drive, according to the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), the equivalent of the Center for Disease Control for computers...
According to the CERT website, Sircam propagates when e-mail attachments are opened or when the virus copies itself onto unprotected network shares...
...Science Center was originally designed by José Luis Cert, a former dean of the Graduate School of Design, and was completed in 1973. The building is shaped like a Polaroid camera due to the fact that Polaroid founder Edwin Land, Class of 1930, donated most of the money for the building...
Clearly, the Internet is still not ready for prime time. "Without architectural improvements," warns Jeff Carpenter of the CERT Coordination Center, a federally funded computer-security group affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University, "we will see this again." The next time could be worse. Imagine what a well-designed Love Bug could do when we have become even more dependent on computer networks and those networks are wireless. An Internet outage could keep us not only from sending e-mail but also from gassing up the car or depositing our paychecks. Warns Symantec vice president Steve Cullen: "We're only fractionally...