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PC Magazine February 15, 2006 Matthew D. Sarrel	Business Body Armor All sorts of enemy combatants want to penetrate your network, but you can turn attacks aside with the right combo of hardware and tactics.
Technology Research News December 17, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Device guards Net against viruses Ordinary computers have no chance of being able to monitor the huge volumes of traffic flowing through the Internet. Specialized hardware, however, can. A device is poised to serve as a network sentry, scanning the full contents of every packet for signs of viruses and the like.
PC World October 24, 2007 Erik Larkin	The Internet's Public Enemy Number One The Storm Worm has infected so many machines that it's now one of the most powerful supercomputers.
CIO October 30, 2012 Lucian Constantin	Lack of Abuse Detection Allows Cloud Computing Instances to Be Used Like Botnets, Study Says Some cloud providers don't detect attacks launched from their networks, researchers say
PC World August 23, 2002 Frank Thorsberg	The World's Worst Viruses Check out our list of nasty computer viruses -- and find out how to save your PC from infection.
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InternetNews January 22, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Downadup: The Web's Next Big Threat? Experts blame a lack of patching and an advanced design for the rise of a worm that could outpace Storm.
Wired July 2003 Paul Boutin	Slammed! An inside view of the worm that crashed the Internet in 15 minutes.
InternetNews August 23, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Storm Worm Gathers Strength on The Internet The Storm worm virus is still around, still causing trouble and stronger than ever six months later.
InternetNews October 31, 2005 Jim Wagner	Alert Sounds Alarm From Within Security vendor Alert Logic has launched a hosted subscription service that protects enterprise networks from internal attacks.
PC World October 23, 2002 Paul Roberts	Net Attack Could Be First of Many, Experts Warn Future attacks could succeed in bringing down the Internet and are surprisingly simple to launch, security insiders say.
Defense Update Issue 3, 2005	DARPA gears to Counter Network Worms One of the most imminent threats to C4 systems, particularly mobile ad-hoc and COTS based networks, are large scale attacks by computer worms spreading malicious code.
InternetNews October 24, 2007 Andy Patrizio	The 'Storm' That Keeps Blowing The Storm worm seems to unleash one new e-mail flood or denial of service attack every week. Why won't it go away?
Wall Street & Technology January 5, 2005 David Tan	Combating Blended Threats Security experts agree that blended threats will continue to grow in frequency, complexity and severity.
InternetNews May 26, 2004 Ryan Naraine	Korgo Worm Targets LSASS Flaw The detection of a new network worm is a clear indication that users have still not applied Microsoft's MS04-011 update.
PC World September 4, 2001 Kim Zetter	Did FBI Ignore Code Red Warning? Fast-spreading malicious worm may have had a less successful predecessor...
InternetNews January 7, 2004 Ryan Naraine	Blaster Worm Still Active; Removal Tool Released Tardy home users with unpatched systems are the main culprits.
PC World August 2, 2001 Frank Thorsberg	Double Trouble: Code Red and Sircam Plagues Continue Computer users face high-profile threats from multiple sources...
InternetNews March 1, 2005 Jim Wagner	Fresh Bagle Attacks Under Way A wave of Bagle variants is slipping past anti-virus software and into computers.
PC World November 2004 Dan Verton	Biography of a Worm Can anything stop the next global virus outbreak? We follow the trail of one recent worm to see how the security system works--and whether it can be fixed.
InternetNews April 27, 2011	Russia Leads in Internet Attack Traffic New report from Akamai names Russia as the source of 10 percent of global attack traffic, but is it all really coming from Russia?
PC Magazine October 1, 2004 Neil J. Rubenking	Personal Firewall--Don't Surf Without It To gauge the effectiveness of two popular firewall packages, we took the gloves off and attacked the firewall process using techniques available to a malicious program. McAfee Personal Firewall Plus 6.0... Norton Personal Firewall 2005...
InternetNews August 18, 2005 Tim Gray	Warily Watching Worm Variants Versions of the Zotob worm continue to slam corporate networks while security vendors and Microsoft play defense.
InternetNews May 6, 2004 Ryan Naraine	MS to Help Zap Worms Automatically Microsoft is working on a plan to distribute worm removal tools within automatic updates by the end of this year.
IEEE Spectrum January 2008 Mark Anderson	What a Wi-Fi Worm Outbreak Would Look Like A future form of computer malware might infect Wi-Fi routers and steal data.
PC Magazine February 1, 2008 Matthew D. Sarrel	Unified Threat Management A single interface to protect your network makes good sense.
Science News August 25, 2007 Julie J. Rehmeyer	Math Trek: Squashing Worms A mathematician and theoretical computer scientist at Microsoft Research has mathematically analyzed the question of which computers to patch first when a mutating worm is spreading through the Internet.
PC World September 18, 2001 Frank Thorsberg	Multi-Fanged Worm Starts Global Attack New mass-mailing worm starts sophisticated attack on PCs and servers worldwide...
PC World November 2005 Erik Larkin	Threat Alert: Instant Messaging Attacks Worms disguised as harmless links or attachments wriggle through chat software.
InternetNews January 20, 2004 Ryan Naraine	'Bagle' Virus Threat Upgraded New e-mail virus includes a backdoor component which could allow an attacker to execute malicious code on infected systems.
InternetNews January 16, 2008 Andy Patrizio	A Particularly Nasty Week For Malware From Excel to the revitalized Storm worm to a severe banking Trojan, it's enough to make you nostalgic for the days of BBSes.
PC World August 12, 2002 Tom Mainelli	Symantec Unveils Automated Norton AntiVirus Updated program zaps latest worms, seeks out instant messaging nasties, and doesn't bother you with the details.
PC Magazine March 14, 2007 Larry Seltzer	A Storm Blows Through the Web The Storm Worm virus is old news. Where is it now?
InternetNews February 9, 2004 Sharon Gaudin	Stripped-Down MyDoom Hits Microsoft.... Again A new variant of the virulent MyDoom worm has been found in the wild, launching what one analyst fears may be a vicious attack against Microsoft Corp.'s Web site.
PC Magazine August 19, 2003 Dennis Fisher	The Lookout: New Breed of Trojan Security researchers believe they have identified a new breed of Trojan horse that is infecting machines on the Internet, possibly in preparation for a larger coordinated attack.
PC World May 2003 Daniel Tynan	Dawn of the Superworm Experts warn that the Slammer worm is a harbinger of worse strains to come.
CIO October 15, 2003 Paul Roberts	Virus Attacks What a month. Human frailty, spam and a dangerous Microsoft Windows vulnerability combined to produce four major Internet worm attacks in August. A rundown.
InternetNews May 3, 2004 Ryan Naraine	Sasser Worm Reined But Variants Sprout Experts continue to stress the importance of applying Microsoft's MS04-011 patch.
Scientific American June 2009 Michael Moyer	What Conficker Reveals About Internet Crime The worm exposes the sophisticated international criminal networks behind modern computer viruses
New Architect November 2002 Kevin Savetz	Managing Traffic Spikes If lots of people are visiting your company's Web site, that's a good thing. But too much traffic can bog down your servers, clog your bandwidth, and frustrate site visitors. Even if you're caught unawares by a traffic spike, you may be able to reduce its impact after the fact.
InternetNews November 1, 2004 Colin C. Haley	AT&T Builds In Network Security AT&T announced a new version of its predictive service designed to help protect far-flung businesses from worms and viruses without deploying firewalls at each location.
PC World February 24, 2003 Tom Krazit	Lovgate.C Worm Crawls Across Web Leading antivirus vendors post inoculations for newest pest.
PC World September 2002 Andrew Brandt	Klez: The Virus That Won't Die Already the most prolific virus ever, Klez continues to wreak havoc.
InternetNews March 23, 2006 Michael Hickins	IBM Readies 'Virtual' Worm-Detection Big Blue's new worm-detection system is preparing to lure worms. The feature entices a worm to attack by creating a virtual environment and then isolating the offending virus or worm.
InternetNews January 8, 2008 Andy Patrizio	Move Over Storm, There's a New Botnet in Town Nugache, a once-minor botnet, gets an extreme makeover and may be rivaling Storm in terms of size and scale of nuisance.
InternetNews September 19, 2005 Tim Gray	New Worm Uses The Force Security firm PandaLabs says a worm that spoofs Google is winding its way through the Internet via P2P networks.
InternetNews November 23, 2009	Second iPhone Worm Targets Personal Data The second incident of espionage on jailbroken iPhones is much nastier than its prank-like predecessor.
PC World November 27, 2002 Paul Roberts	New E-Mail Worm Causing Severe Damage Winevar could delete all the files on a computer's hard drive, while also mocking the user.