Rival malware gangs wage turf war
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| Like competing gangs in the Mafia - for those who followed the HBO
| series The Sopranos, think the New York-based Lupertazzi crime
| family and its sometimes enemy the DiMeo crime family, which Tony
| Soprano ran from New Jersey - the malware groups are fighting for
| turf and control.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/01/malware_gang_war/
Cyber attacks engulf Kremlin's critics
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| The DDoS attacks involve a flood of computers all trying to connect
| to a single site at the same time, overwhelming the computer server
| that handles the traffic. Estonian authorities claimed they traced
| the attacks to Kremlin IP addresses.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070701/ap_on_hi_te/russia_cyber_war
SPAM no longer seem like the main concern (and it didn't vanish in 2006 like
Billy promised either).
Related:
China Crafts Cyberweapons
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| The Defense Department reports China is building cyberwarfare
| units and developing viruses.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,132284-pg,1/article.html(News)
U.S. cyber counterattack: Bomb 'em one way or the other
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| If the United States found itself under a major cyberattack aimed
| at undermining the natio's critical information infrastructure,
| the Department of Defense is prepared, based on the authority of
| the president, to launch a cyber counterattack or an actual
| bombing of an attack source.
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/020807-rsa-cyber-attacks.html
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