Some people already cash in on the fear...
Promisec Stops Threat of BOTNET Attacks Overtaking Corporate PCs
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-promisec-stops-threat-botnet-attacks-overtaking-corporate-pcs-/2007/07/18/2795201.htm
Governments' systems used to power phishing push
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| Lax security controls are allowing conmen to host fraudulent websites on
| servers run by government organisations and private sector firms.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/19/govt_phishing_hosts/
Recent:
Hackers steal government, corporate data
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| A piece of software, NTOS.exe, probes the PC for confidential data, then
| sends it to a Web site hosted on Yahoo. That site's owner is likely unaware
| that it is being used by hackers, Morris said.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6197157.html
Related:
Spam, phishing, spyware pose threats to government cybersecurity
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| Federal agencies are facing emerging cybersecurity threats that
| are the result of increasingly sophisticated methods of attack
| and the blending of once distinct types of attack into more
| complex and damaging forms.
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http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/kouri/070429
Cyberattacks at federal agencies draw House scrutiny
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| In the process of analyzing that malicious code, analysts also
| discovered another previously unknown hole in the Windows operating
| system that lacked a security patch.
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http://news.com.com/2100-7348_3-6177783.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
The feds weigh in on Windows security
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| "The benefits of this move are enormous: Common, secure configurations
| can help slow botnet spreading, can radically reduce delays in patching,
| can stop many attacks directly, and organizations that have made the
| move report that it actually saves money rather than costs money,"
| Paller wrote.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6172158.html
Botnet 'pandemic' threatens to strangle the net
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| Cerf estimated that between 100 million and 150 million of the
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| 600 million PCs on the internet are under the control of hackers,
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| the BBC reports.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/
FBI to Notify Microsoft Windows Users Who Were Victims of Botnets
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| The Department of Justice and FBI have announced the results of
| an ongoing cyber crime initiative to disrupt and dismantle
| “botherders” and elevate the public’s cyber security
| awareness of botnets.
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http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/general/10550/fbi-notify-microsoft-windows-users-who-were-victims-botnets
New Trojan Makes Microsoft Windows Talk While Wiping out the Hard Drive
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| This new malicious code detected by PandaLabs last week uses the Windows
| text reader to play the following sentences:
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| "You have been infected I repeat you have been infected and your system
| files have been deleted. Sorry. Have a nice day and bye bye."
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| These comments are repeated over and over again while the Trojan
| tries to delete the entire content of the computer's hard disk.
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http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/general/10559/new-trojan-makes-microsoft-windows-talk-while-wiping-out-hard-drive
FAA May Ditch Microsoft's Windows Vista And Office For Google And Linux Combo
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| Bowen said he's in talks with the aviation safety agency's main
| hardware supplier, Dell Computer, to determine if it could
| deliver Linux-based computers capable of accessing Google
| Apps through a non-Microsoft browser once the FAA's XP-based
| computers pass their shelf life.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197800480
Homeland Security sees cyberthreats on the rise
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| To test the nation's response to a cyberattack, the Department
| of Homeland Security plans to hold another major exercise,
| called Cyberstorm II, in March 2008, Garcia said. A first
| such exercise happened early last year.
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http://news.com.com/2100-7355_3-6157809.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
http://tinyurl.com/2dpbmv
Perspective: Microsoft security--no more second chances?
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| CNET News.com's Charles Cooper says the software maker is running out
| of excuses for a history of poor security.
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| As if Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff didn't have enough on
| his plate.
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| Not only has he had to deal with Katrina and Osama. Now he's also got to
| whip Steve Ballmer and the crew at Microsoft into shape. If past is
| prologue, that last task may be the most daunting of all.
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http://news.com.com/2010-1002_3-6104512.html?part=rss&tag=6104512&subj=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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