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Like so much in life, it began with sex. Alt.sex, to be precise, a Usenet newsgroup devoted to erotica. This is where the computer virus called Melissa was, in geek terminology, released "in the wild." Named after a topless dancer in Florida, where "her" alleged author once lived, the virus was unremarkable except for her speed. Experts had never seen anything spread so fast. People trusted Melissa; she arrived disguised as an e-mail from a friend or colleague. In a matter of days, she was replicating herself all over cyberspace--from Berlin to Beijing, from the U.S. Marine Corps...
Council Vice President Kamil E. Redmond '00moderated the panel and requested that panelist keep their tempers under control. Last week, over 130 mnessage were sent to the uc-general newsgroup about the issue...
Council Vice President Kamil E. Redmond '00 moderated the panel and requested that panelist keep their tempers under control. Last week, over 130 messages were sent to the uc-general newsgroup about the issue...
...this end, administrators have been busy educating students about network security. Besides the quiz, a newsgroup called harvard.comp.security has been created so students can discuss computer security issues...
...becoming more active in making security bulletining available to the user community through that newsgroup," Osterberg says. "I believe we've seen a large increase in overall awareness of computer security issues, which to me means that our outreach is starting to work. There is more to be done, of course, but we're starting to make progress...