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[News] At Least 20,000 Web Sites Compromised in March

Hackers Tuck Attack Code Into UK Government Site

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| Trend Micro's Web site was one of up to 20,000 sites discovered in mid-March 
| where hackers found a weakness in the server's security that allowed them to 
| implant malicious JavaScript.  
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,144149-pg,1/article.html

The real number is probably far greater, so before the munchkins ridicule for
PHP-based application coding bugs, they ought to be aware that Windows servers
are affected without exception, as reported in the news many times already.


Yesterday:

Trend, Sophos and McAfee flunk Vista SP1 anti-virus tests

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| Top tier anti-virus vendors including McAfee, Trend Micro, and Sophos all 
| failed to secure Windows Vista SP1 in recent independent tests. 
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/03/vista_sp1_av_tests/


3 days ago:

New Zealand teenager convicted over international cyber crime ring

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| Owen Thor Walker, 18, known by his online name "AKILL," was involved in a 
| network accused of infiltrating 1.3 million computers and skimming millions 
| of dollars from victims' bank accounts.  
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http://news.smh.com.au/new-zealand-teenager-convicted-over-international-cyber-crime-ring/20080301-1vzs.html


Internet has a garbage problem, researcher says

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| Somewhere between 1 percent and 3 percent of all traffic on the Internet is 
| meaningless packets of information, used in distributed denial of service 
| attacks (DDOS) to knock Web sites offline.  
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;1488056707


No April Fools'--Storm worm is back

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| The compromised computer will then install the downloaded file as C:
| \WINDOWS\aromis.exe. Nazario reports that the botnet file opens the firewall 
| using the netsh firewall set command, makes a lot of outbound connections, 
| then listens on a random UDP port.   
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http://www.news.com/8301-10789_3-9906880-57.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20


Last week:

With Vista breached, Linux unbeaten in hacking contest

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| The MacBook Air went first; a tiny Fujitsu laptop running Vista was hacked on 
| the last day of the contest; but it was Linux, running on a Sony Vaio, that 
| remained undefeated as conference organizers ended a three-way computer 
| hacking challenge Friday at the CanSecWest conference.   
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/032908-with-vista-breached-linux-unbeaten.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news


Recent:

What spooks Microsoft's chief security advisor

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| Speaking at the Boston SecureWorld conference Wednesday, the 19-year 
| Microsoft veteran whose job includes protecting enterprises, developers and 
| Microsoft itself said there actually is plenty of good news on the security 
| front. For example, his outfit scans a half million devices (with customer 
| permission) per month and in the first half of last year saw the first 
| period-over-period decline in new vulnerabilities disclosed across Microsoft 
| and non-Microsoft software since 2003.      
| 
| However, 3,400 new vulnerabilities were discovered and “it’s still a big 
| number,” Arsenault says. “So if vulnerability rates are down, where are 
| they?”  
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/032608-microsoft-security-concerns.html


Websense Security Labs first to discover vulnerability within Microsoft Office

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| This vulnerability allows code execution within an Excel document without the 
| knowledge of the user. 
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http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/software/2008/0803270807.asp?A=VIR&S=Virus%20Watch&O=FPIN


Bots rule in cyberspace

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| USA TODAY REPORTS that on an average day, 40 per cent of the 800 million 
| computers connected to the Internet are bots used to send out spam, viruses 
| and to mine for sensitive personal data.  
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/17/bots-rule-cyberspace
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2008-03-16-computer-botnets_N.htm

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