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The disclosure this week of critical vulnerabilities in voice-over-IP products from several major vendors shows why companies need to pay close attention to security when deploying IP telephony technologies, analysts said.

Slammer: One year later

Paul Roberts - January 18, 2004

Cash machines froze. Airlines and hospitals dusted off paper forms to schedule reservations and track patients. This was the scene on Jan. 25, 2003, shortly after the Slammer worm appeared and quickly began spreading around the world, flooding computer networks with worm-generated traffic and knocking vital database servers offline.

Spam may cost Hong Kong $1.3 billion a year

Chee Sing Chan - January 15, 2004

About 50 per cent of all e-mail received in Hong Kong is spam and could be costing the economy up to HK$10 billion (US$1.3 billion) a year, according to survey findings released today by the Hong Kong Internet Service Providers Association (HKISPA).

AMD chips include buffer overflow protection

Tom Krazit - January 14, 2004

Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s Opteron and Athlon 64 processors can detect a commonly used attack against PCs connected to the Internet and render it harmless by blocking malicious code from executing, AMD said this week.

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Understanding Cybersecurity on Smartphones (UCS-Sph) Part 2

MohammadMoein Shafi and Arash Habibi Lashkari - March 5, 2024

This second article of the Understanding Cybersecurity on Smartphones (UCS-Sph) series delves into Microsoft's Windows Phone, a mobile OS that has undergone significant changes...