Security News > 2001

Microsoft warns of PowerPoint, Excel vulnerabilities
2001-10-08 08:10

http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO64507,00.html By JAIKUMAR VIJAYAN October 05, 2001 Microsoft Corp. is warning users of a security hole in its popular Excel and PowerPoint...

Lawmaker proposes creation of cyber-National Guard
2001-10-04 08:02

http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/120351p-1285701c.html [I'm game, where do I sign up? - WK] By LISA HOFFMAN , Scripps Howard News Service WASHINGTON (October 3, 2001 9:43 a.m. EDT) -...

DAVE WILSON: 'Hacktivists,' caught in web of hate, deface Afghan sites
2001-10-03 07:17

http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/118547p-1278272c.html [Again its amateur hour on the Internet, the attempts by hackers in trying to take out banks, electric power and communications...

Bush taps Clarke as cyberdefense chief
2001-10-02 09:29

http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO64376,00.html By DAN VERTON October 01, 2001 WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration last week took a long-awaited step toward improving the...

Info Security 'Teachers' Need More Learning
2001-10-02 09:23

http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO64314,00.html THORNTON MAY October 01, 2001 A longtime editor of Scientific American recalls meeting a famous movie critic. After introducing...

Re: Hackers face life imprisonment under 'Anti-Terrorism' Act
2001-09-28 12:24

Forwarded from: Vern Waltman I don't know about you all, but to me this statement has a very wide reaching effect on all who are in the computer security arena. All of the open source posts of...

DoJ press release on Brian West
2001-09-27 09:17

http://www.kellybreed.com/westnews/index.htm U.S. Department of Justice SHELDON J. SPERLING United States Attorney Eastern District of Oklahoma (918) 684-5100 For Release: September 24, 2001 For...

Warnings issued about new 'WTC' virus
2001-09-26 08:45

http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO64195,00.html By DAN VERTON September 24, 2001 Security experts today issued a warning about a dangerous new virus that is spread via e-mail...

Focus on new antiterror cabinet post grows
2001-09-25 08:03

http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO64130,00.html By Dan Verton Sep. 21, 2001 WASHINGTON -- One day after President Bush announced a new cabinet-level position to handle homeland...

Businesses prepare to combat cyberterrorism
2001-09-24 06:23

http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/98308p-1172815c.html By KATHERINE PFLEGER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (September 21, 2001 3:25 p.m. EDT) - Some fear last week's attacks could prompt...