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[News] [Rival] US Government Takes Windows Zombies Very Seriously

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] US Government Takes Windows Zombies Very Seriously
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 04:35:30 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
When Computers Attack

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| Whatever the answer, governments are readying themselves for the Big One.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/24/weekinreview/24schwartz.html?ex=1340337600&en=6e966bd8b6fe8d8d&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Not a word about Windows or Microsoft. The NYT conveniently assumed that
botnets comprise just any PC.


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)


Estonia suspects Kremlin in Web attacks

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| He said more than 1 million computers worldwide have been used in
| recent weeks to attack Estonian government and business Web sites
| since a dispute arose with Moscow over Estonia's moving of a
| Soviet-era war memorial from downtown Tallinn.
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http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/05/17/estonia.cyber.attacks.ap/index.html?eref=rss_tech


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| Ah, from the horse's mouth: Microsoft just might be held legally 
| responsible for selling software that is insecure.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2006112223522439


Experts are calling for product liability for software

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| "Product liability does not apply to software," Gerald Spindler
| of the Faculty of Law of the University of Göttingen complained.
| "But what if a whole company comes to a standstill due to faulty
| software?" he mused.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/86932/from/rss09


Botnet 'pandemic' threatens to strangle the net

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| Cerf estimated that between 100 million and 150 million of the
| 600 million PCs on the internet are under the control of hackers,
| the BBC reports. 
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/

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