A weekly, half-hour, in-depth look at computer crime and dangers is coming to cable channel ZDTV during the first week of February 2000.
Sponsored by Symantc, the show will feature news and commentary on a wide range of matters from hacking and viruses to fraud, privacy, sex crimes, software piracy and censorship.
Hosted by Luke Reiter and Alex Wallen, CyberCrime "will cover issues that affect consumers on a daily basis, as well as larger issues that could potentially bring the Net to its knees," says ZDTV senior vice president of programming and production Greg Drebin.
Reiter and Wellen are no strangers to computer crime. Reiter was once an assistant district attorney in the Homicide Investigations Bureau of the Queens DA's office in New York City. Wellen, a cybercrime reporter for ZDNet News, is a seasoned intellectual property and antitrust litigator. The team has already broken several major computer crime stories for ZDNet, including the Melissa virus and the guilty plea of hacker Kevin Mitnick.
CyberCrime viewers can check how pervasive computer security threats are visiting www.cybercrime.com or www.symantec.com once the show gets underway, says PRNewswire. Reiter and Wellen also plan to report how many viewers have specific security issues, with information captured and reported anonymously to guarantee privacy. ZDTV and Symantec also plan to keep the information for the first year of the show to let viewers see the security threat rising as more people hit the Net and broadband adoption balloons, PRNewswire says.
