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Caucasus foes fight cyber war
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| The people accused of attacking government websites in Georgia's war with
| Russia are using many methods pioneered by the cyber-criminals.
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| However, it is far harder to trace hackers who are driven by patriotism
| rather than profit.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7559850.stm
Third parties too:
µTorrent silently fixes long-standing zero-day vuln
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| Popular BitTorrent client µTorrent has quietly patched a vulnerability that
| created a means for hackers to load malware onto the PCs of file-sharers
| simply by persuading them to open a poisoned Torrent.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/14/utorrent_update/
Windows only.
Report reveals which piracy groups pose significant threat
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| V.i. Labs issued a report revealing that piracy groups are fully exploiting
| security gaps in the common licensing mechanisms used in electronic design
| automation (EDA), computer-aided design (CAD), and product lifecycle
| management (PLM) software to produce counterfeit versions of these
| high-priced applications.
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http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=6419
"Piracy"? What's that? Like GPL violations?
Recent:
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
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