The dark alleys of cyberspace.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [1] CUPERTINO, Calif. -- Downloaders. beware! More than 1 million computer viruses are swarming in cyberspace, just waiting for you to let them in. Their numbers are growing fast. Last year, the Internet security company Symantec detected 711.912 new. malicious computer viruses. That's five times...

Epidemiological models applied to viruses in computer networks.
Abstract: To investigate the use of classical epidemiological models for studying computer virus propagation we described analogies between computer and population disease propagation using SIR (Susceptible-Infected-Removed) epidemiological models. By modifying these models with the introduction of anti-viral individuals we analyzed the stability of the disease free equilibrium points. Consequently,...

Russian expert helps Cuba fight computer viruses.
Whoever saw him in the lobby of Havana's Hotel Nacional could have taken him for a yuppie--one of those young successful executives dressed in Armani suits, flying down to Cuba looking for a good deal. Eugene Kaspersky, however, belongs to a new breed of entrepreneurs who speak...

Wildlife, natural and artificial: an interview with Peter Watts.
The publication of Peter Watts' ssehemoth: Seppuku (2005), the final volume of the Rifters trilogy, brought to a close one of the most intellectually ambitious and compelling science-fiction narratives of the past several decades. Watts' four-volume trilogy explores a six-year period of the near future (2050-2056), a time in...

The Missing Piece: Buyer Interest; Despite some high-profile hacker attempts and the continuing spread of computer viruses, cyber insurance has not had much interest from risk managers. Here's a look at why. (Special Report: E-Commerce).
The cyber insurance business should be booming. Yet despite the seemingly daily discussion of new viruses and hacker warnings in the popular media, the anticipated acceleration in sales of cyber insurance policies is not happening. True, some policies are being sold, but nowhere near what industry observers had expected....

Cyberwars: the coming Arab E-Jihad; a second Arab-Israeli cyberwar may be on the horizon. Possible scenarios include hacker attacks on the databases of Western businesses and the release of viruses that could infect computer systems worldwide. (Current Affairs).
The Arab-Israeli conflict on the ground appears to be evolving as Palestinian militants shift to new guerrilla warfare tactics and Israel responds with increasingly severe military measures. With such innovation and escalation in military tactics in the `real' world, there are expectations of a parallel intensification of activity in...

Lingo for a techno age.
How we say things is often more important than what we say. It can speak volumes about our character and personality, where we grew up, what kind of education we received and whether we're anchored in the past or hankering after the future. Just as information technology...

Q&A: William Gibson: are you spooked yet?
In 1984, Neuromancer by William Gibson became the first novel to win the three top prizes for science fiction (the Hugo, the Nebula, and the Philip K. Dick awards). It established a new literary subgenre--"cyberpunk," or digital, fiction-and helped inspire the Matrix film trilogy. In his debut novel, Gibson...

A Cypriot game: risk mgmt. and shifting cargo: for liability coverage to third parties, shipping manager Arthur R.T. McWhinnie turns to the P&I clubs, the remote descendants of the small hull insurance clubs created by British shipowners in the 18th century.
As a top executive of a Cyprus-based shipping company that manages or owns hundreds of vessels that constantly crisscross the globe carrying everything from volatile gas to toys, Arthur R.T. McWhinnie knows something about managing global risks. On a daily basis, the general manager of fleet management...

An immune system for computer viruses.
Trying to mimic the human body's ability to fight off infection, computer scientists are developing immunologically inspired systems to ward off computer viruses. Jeffrey O. Kephart of the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., reports designing an immune system for computers that "takes...