Battlefield 1942 expansion ships
Posted by puckmaster87 on 05 February 2003 - 09:30 · no comments & 143 views
The Road to Rome expansion, which adds new maps and vehicles to EA's WWII multiplayer shooter, is now in stores. EA has announced that Battlefield 1942: The Road to Rome is now arriving in North American retail stores. The expansion pack adds new content to Digital Illusions' popular WWII-themed multiplayer shooter, including six new maps, eight vehicles, and a few new infantry weapons. The Road to Rome requires that players have the original Battlefield 1942.

News source: Game Avenue

Symantec found that, on average, companies experienced 30 attacks a week in the second half of 2002, compared with 32 in the first six months of the year, a 6 percent reduction. Symantec defined attacks as "individual signs of malicious activity."

In addition, the rate of severe events declined, with 21 percent of the companies that made up the sample suffering a severe event during the past six months, compared to 23 percent of companies in the six months before that and 43 percent of companies in the second half of 2001.

Severe events were defined by Symantec as "sequences of attack activity that have either caused a security breach on a company's network or present an immediate danger of a security breach if intervention is not taken."

While lower than the preceding six months, the average number of attacks per company in the final six months of 2002 was still 21 percent higher than for the same period in 2001.

Those numbers may get worse before they get better. Symantec documented more than 2,500 new vulnerabilities in 2002, an 81 percent increase from the number found in 2001. The number of moderate and high-severity vulnerabilities was almost 85 percent greater than in 2001.

While the increase in the number of software vulnerabilities may reflect increased media attention on the problem and the creation of more responsible disclosure policies in companies, new strategies for exploiting previously unrecognized weaknesses in software code may also be responsible.

The number and severity of the discovered vulnerabilities are fertile ground for new "blended threats" that leverage two or more different security flaws to execute an attack, Symantec said.


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