Return-Path: <sentto-279987-5209-1029762206-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 [204.181.12.215] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.7.4) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Mon, 19 Aug 2002 06:05:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 22564 invoked by uid 510); 19 Aug 2002 13:01:51 -0000 Received: from n29.grp.scd.yahoo.com (66.218.66.85) by all.net with SMTP; 19 Aug 2002 13:01:51 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-5209-1029762206-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [66.218.66.96] by n29.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 19 Aug 2002 13:03:26 -0000 X-Sender: fc@red.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_7_4); 19 Aug 2002 13:03:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 97250 invoked from network); 19 Aug 2002 13:03:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m13.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 19 Aug 2002 13:03:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO red.all.net) (12.232.72.152) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 19 Aug 2002 13:03:26 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by red.all.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) id g7JD4bv07996 for iwar@onelist.com; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 06:04:37 -0700 Message-Id: <200208191304.g7JD4bv07996@red.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> X-Yahoo-Profile: fcallnet Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 06:04:37 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [iwar] [fc:Virus.Authors.to.Sow.Different.Terror.on.9-11] Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=DIFFERENT_REPLY_TO version=2.20 X-Spam-Level: Virus Authors to Sow Different Terror on 9-11 Date: Thursday, 15 August 2002 <a href="http://www.ds-osac.org/edb/cyber/news/story.cfm?KEY=8746">http://www.ds-osac.org/edb/cyber/news/story.cfm?KEY=8746> Source: BusinessWorld Story: As the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States nears, an executive of a leading anti-virus software provider warned of the possibility that virus writers and hackers would mark this event with computer nuisance attacks. Charles Cousins, managing director of Sophos Anti-Virus Asia, said in an interview with BusinessWorld Online "it is possible that something might happen," referring to virus attacks come Sept. 11, as he cautioned people to be extra careful when opening e-mail. "If you think it is not something you need, just delete it," he stressed. Mr. Cousins said organizations should be vigilant and practice safe computing any time of the year. Although it cannot yet be classified as a growing trend, Mr. Cousins said some are politically motivated viruses that have been created recently. Last month, Sophos reported a politically motivated virus made it into the top three of the top 10 viruses the anti-virus software maker monitors regularly. Sophos referred to the Yaha, which launched a rudimentary denial of service attack on the Pakistan government's website and encouraged Indian hackers and virus writers to attack Pakistan. Mr. Cousins said there were unconfirmed reports that the virus was traced to an Indian virus writer. The more widespread computer viruses are still the script viruses, Mr. Cousins said. He said such viruses are easy to write and there are lots of documentation on how to write them. The most damaging, however, are still the executable files, which Mr. Cousins estimated compose 20% of the known viruses but account for 80% of global infections. Mr. Cousins noted a lot of companies in Asia lack computer security policies and do not strictly follow safe computing practices. "There is little education for safe computing," he said, noting it may even be necessary for companies to run courses on safe computing practices to develop the culture for it. The Asian market offers huge potentials for Sophos, Mr. Cousins said. He said the company aims to get 10% market share in Asia in the next three years. Its key regional markets include Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Thailand and Taiwan. While Sophos is not yet ready to set up its own offices in each of the countries in Asia where it is represented, Mr. Cousins said the company appoints strategic partners to market Sophos' products. It now has more than 40 partners in the region, eight of which are for the Philippines. Mr. Cousins said the main challenge for the Philippine market is the large volume of unlicensed applications software that are still being used by some companies. Because these companies do not give much premium to buying licensed software, he said it is also difficult to convince them to invest on anti-virus software products. He said Sophos products typically cost two percent of the entire information technology budget of an organization. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, Sophos is a global developer of anti-virus software products to protect businesses and organizations from virus attack. 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