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Browser War: Alternative Web Browsers Gaining Popularity

The browser war is once again being waged by a half dozen or more software companies who are fighting for a bigger share of the Web browser real estate. But as alternative Web browsers become more popular, so are intrusions by hackers aimed at them ...

INDUSTRY REPORT

Sender ID Gains Favor for Top E-Mail Security

The Internet industry has been waging a quiet battle for bragging rights to being king of the e-mail security mountain in recent months. Proponents of a new e-mail security standard dubbed Sender ID might soon claim that title ...

TECHNOLOGY SPECIAL REPORT

VoIP Lined Up as Wave of Future

The Voice Over IP landscape has changed considerably in the last few years. The easy availability of broadband access to the Internet, coupled with Herculean leaps in technology, makes VoIP service a viable alternative to traditional telephone and PBX offerings ...

TECHNOLOGY SPECIAL REPORT

New Era of Deadly Spyware Approaches

Spyware is so prevalent that it is becoming nearly impossible to find computers that do not contain at least some intrusive code lurking on the hard drive or buried deep within the Windows Registry ...

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New Internet Security Forum Seeks To End Phishing

A newly formed antiphishing group is promising to introduce ways to shut down the spread of online identity fraud scams. Shawn Eldridge, chairman of the new group, Trusted Electronic Communications Forum, sees results coming within the next four to six months ...

TECHNOLOGY SPECIAL REPORT

A New Era of Internet Threats

Internet security firms are gearing up for an onslaught of new attacks that hackers will hurl at inboxes and Web sites. ...

TECHNOLOGY SPECIAL REPORT

Wireless Connectivity Becoming BMOC

College students across the U.S. are majoring in a new technology: wireless connectivity. It is a subject they are learning hands-on and using everywhere they go on campus ...

New MyDoom Variant Stalks More Victims

Computer virus companies spent yesterday scampering to develop defensesfor the newest strain of the MyDoom virus, dubbed MyDoom.O. By midmorning yesterday, thousands of e-mail inboxes were filling up withsubject lines -- and even specifically forged e-mail header information-- designed to encourage opening ...

TECHNOLOGY SPECIAL REPORT

New Efforts Being Taken Against Spyware

In today's world of warnings, dangers and the need for safety precautions, even surfing the Internet for business or pleasure is fraught with hazards. Despite the growing epidemic of spyware infections, many computer users remain unfazed by the call to arms in the fight for safer computing practices ...

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New Strategies Emerging in Spyware Fight

If you use the latest antivirus packages and run a firewall, you don't have to worry about spyware intrusion, right? Wrong, say leading security experts ...

E-BUSINESS SPECIAL REPORT

For Online Finance, Image Is Everything

The online finance industry needs a makeover. Like any product or service presented to consumers, it's all about image. A new report by Javelin Strategy and Research shows that the online finance industry is suffering from an image problem ...

TECHNOLOGY SPECIAL REPORT

Solutions to Spyware Plague Come to Enterprise Users

Spyware, an intrusive malicious software -- or malware -- application that slips into computers via free downloads and visits to some Web sites, is quickly becoming the second most troublesome computer malady after virus infections. Spyware can track Web surfing habits and send the results to purveyors of junk mail. It can scan hard drives for sensitive files and send them to a central location run by hackers. Spyware can slow down a computer so much that it renders the machine next to useless...

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Risk Management for Electronic Data Loss

Got Insurance? If your business has a presence on the Internet, you had better have it. Traditional liability insurance will not be adequate, however. Loss of income and data plus lawsuits filed against your business are the expected consequences of hacker and virus attacks. These are potentially more threatening to businesses today than negative cash flow and the threat of buyouts...

TECHNOLOGY SPECIAL REPORT

Electronic Signatures: The Proof Is in the Process

In the wake of federal e-signature legislation that Congress approved nearly four years ago, the online financial world has seen dozens of Internet companies proffer solutions that promised tamper-proof electronic signatures. The recurring result was a steady stream of solutions that raised lots of business interest but never really materialized in an industry-wide standard...

TECHNOLOGY SPECIAL REPORT

Software Piracy Worldwide

Software piracy is so widespread that it exists in homes, schools, businesses and government offices. According to the Business Software Alliance (BSA), an international association representing the leading software developers, software piracy is practiced by individual PC users as well as computer professionals who deal wholesale in stolen applications...

TECHNOLOGY SPECIAL REPORT

Spyware: The Next Spam?

Spyware is fast becoming the next generation of spam. It is software that installs onto a computer or local network, monitors computing habits and delivers the information to third parties. Usually, the user is unaware that the software exists on his or her computer ...

New Jersey Joins Can-Spam Movement

Suggesting that the federal Can-Spam Act of 2003 doesn't pack a big enough punch to curtail electronic mail spam, state lawmakers around the country are creating their own regionalized antispam laws. The New Jersey legislature is the most recent to join the movement to toughen antispam regulations ...

TECHNOLOGY SPECIAL REPORT

Spam Wars: Fighting the Mass-Mail Onslaught

In Part One of our Spam Wars feature [Jack M. Germain, "Spam Wars: The Ongoing Battle Against Junk E-Mail," TechNewsWorld, June 8, 2004], TechNewsWorld explored what security experts fear will be the next generation of spam attacks. Our inboxes will most likely be flooded with more sophisticated junk mail attacks. These attacks will combine the worst of today's network worms with the newest tricks created by virus writers...

TECHNOLOGY SPECIAL REPORT

Spam Wars: The Ongoing Battle Against Junk E-Mail

Junk e-mail, the way most computer users see it, has become more prolific than postal junk mail. It overloads inboxes and consumes valuable hours each day. Every day, e-mail users must weed through appeals to buy everything from phony products and stock offers to drugs and body-part enhancers -- not to mention the countless free passes to porn sites...

TECHNOLOGY SPECIAL REPORT

Sharing Files: The Untold Story of Software Piracy

File-sharing through the dozens of software piracy mills on the Internet and well-known peer-to-peer networks like Kazaa, Morpheus, iMesh, eDonkey, Gnutella, LimeWire and Grokster accounts for thousands of illegally downloaded music files, games, movies and software. Computer security experts warn that more harm than the mere theft of intellectual property by piracy occurs through participation in file-sharing over the Internet. For example, use of file-sharing operations usually leads to situations in which computers -- and even networks -- are infected with spyware, malware and backdoors left ajar for hackers...

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