All the week's news and views about Security, 10/26/05
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Network World's Security News Alert
Skype patches critical flaws, 10/25/05
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal9624>
Skype users are being urged to upgrade to the latest version of
the popular Internet telephony client, thanks to a number of
critical flaws in the software that were disclosed Tuesday by
Skype's maker, Skype Technologies.
Postini to sell threat-identification technology to others,
10/25/05 <http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal9625>
E-mail security service provider Postini Monday made
commercially available the Postini Threat Identification Network
service, which the company has been using internally to pinpoint
senders of spam and malicious e-mail.
Extortion virus makes rounds in Russia, 10/25/05
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal9626>
Two new versions of a virus first reported in May are staging
renewed attacks against computers in Russia, encrypting files
and then extorting money from victims to decode the files.
Spammers' new tricks, 10/25/05
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal9627>
You gotta hand it to spammers for at least one thing: They're
industrious. Always trying to get into your servers and bypass
your anti-spam software, spammers are now launching some...
The top 5: Today's most-read stories
1. Cisco talking IP-radio nets
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal9628>
2. How to respond to a security breach
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal9629>
3. School traps infected PCs in its web
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal9459>
4. Cartoon of the Week
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal9460>
5. CTO: BellSouth lost 9 COs to Katrina
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal9630>
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