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 October 16, 2006

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ServerIQ: Malware Breaks Under Pressure
In the same way you do everything you can to keep malware
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News: Hacking for Dollars: Is the Botnet Battle Already Lost?
News: Virtual Economies Attract Real-World Tax Attention
News: Online Brokerage Account 'Incursions' Worry SEC
News: Stock Options Backdating Probe Hits McAfee Boardroom
News: Gartner: Consumer Tech Is Next Wave of Enterprise IT
Podcast: The Security Challenges of Financial Firms

For the latest in business and financial services, bookmark eWEEK.com's Finance Industry Center.


News: Hacking for Dollars: Is the Botnet Battle Already Lost?
Botnets have become a big underground business, and the security industry has few answers. eWEEK delves into the uphill challenge in front of vendors by going to one company's research facility to study live botnets in action. Take a look.

Slide show: Botnet Command and Control

News: 'Money Mules': The Hidden Side of Phishing


News: Virtual Economies Attract Real-World Tax Attention
Users of online worlds such as Second Life and World of Warcraft transact millions of dollars worth of virtual goods and services every day, and these virtual economies are beginning to draw the attention of real-world authorities. Find out more.


News: Online Brokerage Account 'Incursions' Worry SEC
High-tech crooks are hijacking online brokerage accounts using spyware and operating from remote locations, sometimes in Eastern Europe, a senior U.S. market regulator says. Get the details.


News: Stock Options Backdating Probe Hits McAfee Boardroom
The security software maker says its chairman and CEO will retire, and that it has fired its president as a result of internal and SEC investigations over stock options backdating policies. Read more.


News: Gartner: Consumer Tech Is Next Wave of Enterprise IT
Consumer technology will overtake corporations, and IT professionals need to get in front of that technology wave, according to Gartner analysts. What else did the analysts say?


Podcast: The Security Challenges of Financial Firms
In this week's OnSecurity podcast, eWEEK writer Matt Hines interviews Ted DeZabala, a principal with Deloitte & Touche's Enterprise Risk Services practice, about the security challenges faced by financial services firms and those companies' efforts to better protect their business from IT attacks. Listen in.



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