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CIO February 1, 2002 Scott Berinato	Cs3 Los Angeles software maker Cs3 likes to look at problems from a different direction -- its MANAnet Reverse Firewall prevents distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks from leaving a network once they enter, helping to stop such assaults from propagating across the Internet...
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InternetNews November 29, 2004 Jim Wagner	SCO Site Cracked The homepage for the SCO Group's Web site is back to normal Monday after attackers defaced images on the site.
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Popular Mechanics September 2008 Glenn Derene	Top 3 Threats and Countermeasures From the Coming Cyberwar: Glossary An explanation of terms like DDoS, root-level penetration, etc.
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The Motley Fool December 2, 2004 Rich Smith	Lycos' Love Leashed The company's anti-spam initiative may be stopped before it gets started. The ISPs fear that a retaliatory attack by Lycos Europe against a single spammer has the potential of causing "collateral damage" to innocent parties sharing the spammers' bandwidth, server space, etc.
Wired November 2006 Scott Berinato	Attack of the Bots The latest threat to the Net: autonomous software programs that combine forces to perpetrate mayhem, fraud, and espionage on a global scale. How one company fought the new Internet mafia - and lost.
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The Motley Fool December 1, 2004 Rich Smith	Lycos Europe Lashes Out The email provider will enable users to spam the Internet's spammers.
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The Motley Fool July 13, 2009 Rich Smith	Welcome! You've Got Hackers! Someone threw a cyber war this week. It's great to know that the government is spending billions hardening the IT system against more competent attackers, but what we really need here is a solution to the real problem: Identifying who the attackers are.
CIO June 15, 2003 Grant Gross	Lawmakers Get Creative to Fight Unwanted E-Mail Charging spammers with racketeering crimes and rewarding spam victims with a financial bounty are among the more creative solutions proposed by members of Congress to the problem of unsolicited e-mail.
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