Paul Roberts

A symposium in Chicago will highlight technology that may fuel the next 50 years of economic growth: a global network of intelligent objects.

A Romanian man will be charged with violating that country's cybercrime laws by releasing a version of the W32.Blaster Internet worm, according to a source involved in the investigation.

The U.S. federal government and Internet service provider (ISP) EarthLink Inc. in July warned of a surge in unsolicited ('spam') e-mail and scam Web sites that are designed to steal the identity of unsuspecting Internet users.

An influential international banking committee issued a report July 22 calling for better security and management of electronic banking (e-banking) by the world's financial institutions.

In the wake of Sobig-F's attack, security experts uniformly credited the worm's sophisticated design for much of its success. However, the sheer magnitude of Sobig's attack led to questions about whether the Internet's current e-mail infrastructure is making things too easy for virus writers and spammers.

Security experts are warning Microsoft Corp. customers about silent Internet attacks that exploit a security flaw in the Internet Explorer Web browser, potentially allowing remote attackers to run malicious code on vulnerable machines.

A widespread and dangerous Microsoft Corp. Windows vulnerability, spam e-mail messages and human frailty combined in recent weeks to produce a flood of new Internet worm attacks, according to experts at leading antivirus and e-mail security companies.

A 24 year-old Romanian student has been arrested for authoring another variant of the Blaster Internet worm, according to a statement released by Softwin SRL, a computer security company based in Bucharest, Romania.