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Blaster, Slammer, Sobig, Lovsan - if these words are familiar to you, you might have been one of this year's victims of various and vicious PC security attacks. Just Friday, appropriately enough on Halloween, yet another monster reared its ugly head as computer security experts warned of a potentially troublesome new e-mail worm, Mimail.C, slowly spreading among both corporate and home e-mail users. This latest threat is a variant of the W32.Mimail worm that surfaced in August and comes as an e-mail message with "our private photos" in the subject line and an attached .zip archive file called "photos.zip." Infection...

California's highest court will finally hear the high-profile case of who owns the rights to the Sex.com domain. The Ninth U.S. Circuit of Appeals in San Francisco Wednesday asked the state Supreme Court to intervene and decide whether a domain name is property that can be converted as well as guidance to assess damages estimated at $100 million. The six-year battle over one of the Internet's most highly desired domain names involves founder and CEO of Sex.Com Gary Kremen, VeriSign (Quote, Company Info), formerly Network Solutions (NSI), and Stephen Michael Cohen. But more than simple case of dot-com claim jumping,...