Month: June 2000

  • Social aspects of the Love Bug virus

    [This was originally published on SunWorld and IDG, and mirrored on attrition.org.] Social aspects of the Love Bug virusEmail clients and operating systems must better protect the end user SummaryThe latest and not-so-greatest computer virus — the Love Bug — was no isolated event, and because of the widespread damage it caused and the media…

  • Securing your network; Your startup’s survival depends on it

    [This was originally published on IBM Developer Works and is mirrored on attrition.org.] Collecting customer demographics is good, and collecting payments online is good. But it isn’t good if this information is stolen from your company’s computers. Brian Martin examines how — and how often — this really happens, and what you can do to…