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Microsoft Encyclopedia of Security (Microsoft Press)
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OECD - 30 nations target cross-border Internet scams
Thirty nations announced the first multinational pact to fight cross-border fraud, which has grown sharply with the spread of the Internet. The agreement among the industrial nations belonging to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development was a year in the making and was spearheaded by the United States, which has the most victims of cross-border fraud. The 30 mostly European and North American member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development agreed to work together to fight cross-border fraud, beef up their own consumer-protection laws where necessary, and make it easier for consumers to recover damages.
http://www.oecd.org/sti/crossborderfraud

Workshop on advanced security technologies
  A workshop on advanced security technologies in networking will take place from 15 to 18 September in Bled, Slovenia.
In light of the growing use of the Internet for administration, e-commerce, intra-organisation communication, health care applications and research, the workshop will bring together experts and users from industry, research and administration to discuss the need of promoting and enhancing security technology.
The following areas will be covered:
- basic knowledge about security mechanisms and services;
- security standards;
- secure administration of the network;
- security technology based products and services for secure communication;
- security technology in e-government and e-business applications;
- secure infrastructure;
- privacy aspects and privacy enhancing technologies;
- data protection and legislation.
The workshop is being organised by NATO's security technology competence centre, in association with the European Commission.
Data Source Provider : NATO
Document Reference : Based on an event announcement
Subject Index Codes : Information Processing, Information Systems, Telecommunications
Contact Person : For further information, please consult the following web address:
http://www.setcce.org/natows/

DHS network broadcasts cyberthreat warnings
The Homeland Security Department has fielded a network that lets government and industry groups swap information about cyberattacks and other systems threats. The Cyber Warning and Information Network has about 30 nodes connecting agencies and companies.

Bugbear worm
"A new variation of the Bugbear worm of last September is spreading rapidly across the Internet. Bugbear.b (w32.bugbear.b@mm) is written in Visual C and has been compressed to 72,192 bytes. It is similar to the original Bugbear worm  in that it spreads by e-mail or shared network files, attempts to shut down popular antivirus and firewall apps, and opens a port on infected computers for remote administration. Bugbear.b contains a keystroke-logging Trojan horse that could be used to steal passwords or credit-card information from infected computers. Bugbear infects all versions of Windows, but does not infect Mac, Unix, or Linux systems."

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