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...ready," says Neil Charney, director of product management for Windows. One reason for the delay is that Gates' "trustworthy computing" plan has pulled programmers off Longhorn to work on fixing Windows XP, patching the kinds of security holes that led to record-breaking viruses like the Blaster worm...
Unleashed last Friday, Sasser.B is a new version of an old worm. This new worm is transmitted directly from the internet. It does not spread through e-mail or attachments and requires no user intervention to spread...
...Sasser.B computer worm swept across the Harvard network and the world this weekend, disrupting classes and frustrating both staff and students...
...worm taxes the computer’s memory, forcing it to reboot endlessly. It does not damage the hard drive, however. Davis said the worm is more of an annoyance than a serious threat. The fear, though, is that it might provide an open gateway for more pernicious viruses to enter...
...their locks and alter vote totals by dialing into the Diebold server used to relay tallies from precincts to state election officials. The computers that were used to receive results from the precincts had not been given basic security upgrades, leaving them vulnerable to viruses like the notorious Blaster worm. "It's not as if they didn't think enough about security," says Wertheimer. "It's as if they didn't think about it at all." Before the primary, Maryland didn't have time to do much more than alter some passwords and attach to the machines antitamper tape that...