Last October's hacker attack on the global root servers that run the core addressing system of the Internet knocked out seven of the 13 servers for a time, but caused nary a problem for most Internet users.

Stepping up its battle against computer viruses and worms, Microsoft has established a $US5 million fund to pay rewards for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for releasing malicious code, the company said.

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The controversy surrounding the use of network intrusion tools shows no signs of slowing, with a group of independent testers coming out strongly in favor of so-called Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS).

Cisco Systems just can't seem to make it through the Black Hat USA conference unscathed. On Wednesday a security researcher showed how an unpatched vulnerability in the company's PIX firewall appliances that could allow outside attackers to gain access to corporate networks.

The new US Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is using the security efforts of others to secure the nation's borders with a state-of-the-art architecture that is spawning a long shopping list of technologies.

Security managers are starting to provide employees basic protection for their home PCs, as well as evaluating what other types of security products are necessary to keep all clients safe.

Electronic document giant Adobe Systems said that it was partnering with digital certificate company GeoTrust to provide technology that will allow documents that use Adobe's popular PDF (Portable Document Format) to be digitally certified.

Enterprises continue to battle the installation of unauthorised, or rogue, wireless LAN access points (AP) on corporate networks by employees who install the increasingly cheap devices unmindful of the security risks, according to speakers at Computerworld's Mobile and Wireless Conference.

Faced with the sustained threat of terrorist attacks against its interests and citizens, the US government needs to devote more resources to developing models for understanding the threat of terrorism while building a better civil infrastructure for spotting and reacting to terrorist threats, say leading experts on technology and public policy.

My company has budgeted enough money so that security just hasn't been an issue. Yet. And therein lies the problem.

Cisco Systems this week introduced education programs for designing network security architectures and updated certification tests for specific Cisco security gear.

Users of some Cisco Systems' products have been shocked to discover that the Blaster worm that has been burrowing its way into Microsoft's Windows-enabled systems around the world is also affecting some Cisco gear.

The joy of watching the old Mission: Impossible TV shows was in following the team of super secret agents as they laid a trap for the bad guy. The evil one inevitably succumbed to the lure set by the heroes through his greed or hubris, usually the latter.