ADVISORY/Experts Available to Discuss Fizzer Virus.

Business Editors

ADVISORY...

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

TOPIC: Anti-virus vendors, including F-Secure and Symantec, are warning that the Windows Fizzer virus is spreading "at an alarming rate" by email and the Kazaa file-sharing network, according to an article by TechWeb. Fizzer sends itself to all contacts within the Windows Address Book and contains a keylogger that keeps track of a user's keystrokes. The virus also tries to stop active anti-virus programs to leave PCs unprotected. The virus hit in the United States, Europe and China.

EXPERTS: ExpertSource can offer several highly qualified experts to comment on this story:

Joseph Magee works with Top Layer's engineers on product development and provides strategic consultation on network security implementations. Additionally, he is in charge of all the information assurance for the company and protecting its intellectual property. He has appeared on CNN, Talk America, and TechTV as a network security expert and his speaking experience includes DARPA, SANS, Sector 5, and CyberCrime conferences. Prior to Top Layer, he was the information security architect at Datek Online Holdings, where he was responsible for the overall protection of the core systems for this online brokerage company, including the design of exterior network defenses, custom front-end encryption schemes, firewall and intrusion detection auditing, the protection of all inbound and outbound data transmissions, and routine perimeter security assessments. PR: Anthony Citrano, 617-758-4140, [e-mail]

Mikko Hypponen is Manager of Anti-Virus Research at F-Secure Corporation, and has worked at the company since 1991, when the company was just three years old. A well-known and widely respected figure in the information security industry, Mr. Hypponen frequently contributes to various antivirus and security-related magazines and discussion groups. He also spends a big part of his time evangelizing on antivirus and other security issues, making a knowledgeable and articulate resource for editors on short deadline. In addition to his other duties, he has co-authored two books. His research team at F-Secure was the first to locate, analyze and build protection against the LoveLetter virus, the largest virus incident in the world, in April 2000. [phone], [e-mail]

Tari Schreider is the director of Security Practice at Extreme Logic. The company aids clients in the areas of extensive security planning, rigorous implementation, strategic security assessments, risk evaluation, vulnerability testing, and disaster recovery capability, along with policies and procedures that maintain tight reins on corporate information assets. Tari's practice is based on three fundamental truths of security: One security initiatives demand a business orientation; Two, mitigating threat requires the protection of applications from the inside out; and Three, effective security requires the orchestration of people, process, and technology. Too often, these tenets of security are ignored in pursuit of a technology silver bullet, rather than embraced in an enterprise-wide pursuit of information asset protection. Schreider finds that companies spend fortunes on security products and managed services, but continue to be overrun with viruses, hacked web sites, and loss of critical information. PR: Becky Boyd, 770-642-2080, [e-mail]

ExpertSource cannot guarantee the immediate availability of these experts or their familiarity with this specific issue.

ExpertSource provides academic and industry experts to the media at no charge. Journalists are encouraged to submit queries to ExpertSource when seeking experts on specific subjects. An online registration form is available at http://www.businesswire.com/.