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[News] Will Windows Viruses Lead to Overhaul of the Web?

[This is an opinion]

Global malady: Virus writers worldwide team up

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| Security researchers have been touting the growing nature of
| professionalism among virus authors over the last several years,
| but new evidence points to increased cooperation between malware
| writers spread around the globe, according to some experts.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1057173992&rid=-50

New program aims to overhaul the Internet

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| The point of these efforts is not that the Internet is broken--just
| that it has become ossified in the face of emerging security threats
| and novel applications.
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http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/general/new-program-aims-overhaul-internet


Related:

Zombie botnets attack global DNS servers

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| Hackers launched a sustained attack last night against key root servers
| which form the backbone of the internet.
| 
| Security firm Sophos said that botnets of zombie PCs bombarded the
| internet's domain name system (DNS) servers with traffic.
| 
| "These zombie computers could have brought the web to its knees,"
| said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos.
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http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2174383/zombie-botnets-attack-global


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/


EveryDNS, OpenDNS Under Botnet DDoS Attack

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| The last time the Web mob (spammers and phishers using botnets)
| decided to go after a security service, Blue Security was forced
| to fold and collateral damage extended to several businesses,
| including Six Apart.
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http://securitywatch.eweek.com/exploits_and_attacks/everydns_opendns_under_botnet_ddos_attack.html


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.
|
| 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


US plans for cyber attack revealed

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37563

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