ANTIVIRUS VENDORS AND SLEAZY PRESS RELEASES

Jun 14, 2002 | security

The news from McAfee is alarming: a new virus can infect .JPG picture files; potentially no file type is safe to exchange in e-mail; maybe we should never share .JPGs by e-mail. Here’s the McAfee press release; here’s an example of the news coverage it generated...

THE FBI, PROUD GUARDIANS OF OUR RIGHTS

May 28, 2002 | law, security

Gotta love this story. In 2000, the FBI apparently used Carnivore electronic surveillance in an attempt to collect information on Osama bin Laden’s network. Unfortunately they screwed up and also collected a whole bunch of e-mails exchanged by “non-covered...

VIRUSES REAL AND IMAGINARY

May 17, 2002 | security

REAL: A particularly nasty new virus named “Klez” is making the rounds by e-mail. It has the usual characteristics: it arrives in a randomly-generated message from someone you know, with a file attachment that does nasty things when you click on it. This...

PRIVACY: BANKS vs. MICROSOFT & AOL

Apr 29, 2002 | security

A recent study discovered that almost half of you would trust banks to handle online wallets, but most people would not trust Microsoft or AOL to hold the same financial information. David Coursey’s column today takes a position that I find convincing –...

KLEZ VIRUS

Apr 24, 2002 | security

There’s yet another e-mail virus running around loose, the “Klez” worm. It’s finding a lot of unprotected systems, and causing the usual problems. Here’s an article about the virus. As always, think to yourself: are you running antivirus...

KAZAA SPYWARE

Apr 9, 2002 | file_sharing, security, software

Kazaa is one of the popular file sharing programs that took over after Napster was gunned down. It had always had a reputation for installing “spyware” – nasty little programs that monitored your web surfing and downloads and reported back to...