Authentium, a computer-security company, recorded a 30-40% sales increase in the week that Blaster struck.
And, she suggests, computer-security specialists will increasingly borrow from biology as software continues to become more complicated.
In other words, a lot goes on payments by one lot of businesses to another: the computer-security industry.
Aramco, the national oil company where she was working as a computer-security consultant at the time, wasn't pleased, either.
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However, computer-security companies (which, of course, have a vested interest) warn that even apparently benevolent worms are not all good.
He held various jobs, and even earned money as a computer-security consultant, supporting his son to the extent that he was able.
And I spent time with Carnegie Mellon computer-security specialists, who were testing a clever way of coaching people to create harder-to-crack digital passwords.
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Recently the computer-security company RSA (a division of EMC) was penetrated by an intrusion which appears to have stolen the secret sauce behind the company's SecureID.
Sean Sullivan, a security adviser for computer-security company F-Secure Corp.
"It's part of this overall story that the Chinese want to know what the West thinks of them, " said Richard Bejtlich, chief security officer with the computer-security company Mandiant Corp.
What frustrates computer-security experts is that the features that make the Internet such an invaluable resource -- its openness and interconnectedness -- also make it easier for hackers to do harm.
Alan Paller, director of research at SANS Institute, a computer-security organization, said that the level of cyberattacks, including against power companies and critical infrastructure, has shot up in the last seven or eight months.
Most computer-security professionals don't believe in security.
Richard Bejtlich, chief security officer at Mandiant, a computer-security company, said that in cases handled by his firm where intrusions were traced back to Chinese hackers, 94% of the targeted companies didn't realize they had been breached until someone else told them.
These products are used in telecommunications networks, computer-controlled systems, security systems, emergency lighting, electric utilities and switchgear, medical equipment, rail signaling, renewable energy, and military and aviation equipment.
Mikko Hypponen is chief security officer for F-Secure, a leading computer security company.
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The final myth is the one that leads to the most pronounced false sense of security - that my make of computer or operating system is not vulnerable to security problems.
Shahar Maor, an information-technology analyst at Israeli market research firm STKI, estimated that compared with large companies associated with defense or critical infrastructure, lower tier Israeli companies hire one-fifth as many information-security employees relative to computer users.
The fact that ILOVEYOU was seemingly unaffected by most companies' front-line defenses should serve as a wake-up call to businesses that in the ever-mutating world of computer viruses, security software must constantly be updated with the latest technology.
Now that the new standard is ratified, Wi-Fi equipment makers, such as Cisco Systems , Netgear , Apple Computer and others will incorporate the new security features into new Wi-Fi products, and in some cases, may be able to update them with a simple firmware upgrade available from a Web site.
Unfortunately, she clicked yes, and this fake-security warning led to her computer becoming as infected as a little kid after the first day of preschool.
In an era of interactive television cables, the growth of computer checking and check-out counters, of security systems and telephones, all lodged together in computers, it would be relatively easy at some point to give a profile of a person and tell what they buy in a store, what kind of food they like, what sort of television programs they watch.
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It's a little like LoJack -- the car security system that tracks down and recovers stolen vehicles -- for your computer.
One frequent objection to always-on Internet access is security -- always-on gives hackers time to break into your computer.
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And it also comes as Microsoft is trying to rewrite the rules for its dealings with computer security companies to stop them from revealing its security errors until it has found a cure for them - however long that takes.
On the program, more about the National Security Agency and reports of a vast computer-based telephone call tracking operation.
In the United States, government computer networks parry millions of attempted intrusions every day, Internet-security experts say.
The Pentagon will dramatically increase its cyber-security staff to counter threats against US government computer networks, according to media reports.
The courts have yet to decide who is liable if a computer system with lax security is used to launch a denial-of-service attack, but a number of lawsuits are pending.
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