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Tuesday, July 05, 2005

German teenager admits in court to creating Sasser worm

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Tuesday, July 5, 2005

* German teenager admits in court to creating Sasser worm
* Symantec completes Veritas merger, names new board
* New Trojan can knock out Symbian phones
* China signs on to international anti-spam pact
* CA, Cisco fortify security arsenal
* User confidence takes a Net loss
* Product Guide: IBM eServer p5 510

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GERMAN TEENAGER ADMITS IN COURT TO CREATING SASSER WORM

German teenager Sven Jaschan confessed at his trial on Tuesday to
creating last year's Sasser computer worm that crashed hundreds of
thousands of computers worldwide after spreading at lightning speed over
the Internet.
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SYMANTEC COMPLETES VERITAS MERGER, NAMES NEW BOARD

Symantec has named the six former Symantec directors and four former
Veritas directors who will sit on its 10-member board, following the
completion of its merger with Veritas Software Saturday.
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NEW TROJAN CAN KNOCK OUT SYMBIAN PHONES

Users of Symbian Series 60 smart phones should be aware of a new Trojan
horse that, if not removed within one hour, can cause complete data loss
in their wireless devices, security experts warned.
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CHINA SIGNS ON TO INTERNATIONAL ANTI-SPAM PACT

The Chinese government has joined an international anti-spam effort
started by the U.K. and U.S. governments, the U.K.'s Department of
Trade and Industry (DTI) said Monday.
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CA, CISCO FORTIFY SECURITY ARSENAL

With recent security breaches involving universities, credit card
processors, and financial institutions making headlines, security
technology vendors are moving to strengthen their product lines by
acquiring new technologies or by upgrading current products.
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USER CONFIDENCE TAKES A NET LOSS

We've seen plenty of evidence lately that security on the Internet is not
all that it could be. Recent examples of lost, misplaced, or unsecured
data -- including episodes with CardSystems Solutions, ChoicePoint,
Citibank, Bank of America, and Wachovia -- could potentially affect
millions of consumers.
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PRODUCT GUIDE: IBM ESERVER P5 510

The eServer p5 combines an extremely powerful dual-core RISC processor
with a ton of L3 cache, hardware-based logical partitions, and
fault-tolerance features as good as any other 2U server. It's well
suited for clustered numerical processing and server consolidation
-- as long as you run your applications on the Power5 platform. The
server runs either AIX or Linux -- or both at the same time, in
different hardware partitions.

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