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[News] [Rival] Microsoft Windows Zombies Attack Estonia Again

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Microsoft Windows Zombies Attack Estonia Again
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:52:46 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Another Estonia Cyberattack

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| The attack, which ended Tuesday, was minimally disruptive, according to 
| Hillar Aarelaid, manager of Estonia's Computer Emergency Response Team 
| (CERT). He described it as an "ordinary DDOS" (distributed denial of service) 
| attack in which the news agency's servers were flooded with Internet traffic, 
| in an attempt to crash them.     
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,141438-c,cybercrime/article.html#

"Bill Gates looks at everything as something that should be his. He acts in any
way he can to make it his. It can be an idea, market share, or a contract.
There is not an ounce of conscientiousness or compassion in him. The notion of
fairness means nothing to him. The only thing he understands is leverage."

                                                        --Philippe Kahn


Related:

Bush, Estonian president talk cyberattacks

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| "When you are a highly Interneted [sic] country like we are, then these 
| kinds of attacks can do very serious damage."
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9734382-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20


EU should class cyber attacks as terrorism: Estonia

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| Estonia will propose at a meeting of European Union justice 
| ministers next week that the bloc consider cyber attacks as 
| "acts of terror", Estonian Justice Minister Rein Lang said Thursday.
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http://www.france24.com/france24Public/en/administration/afp-news.html?id=070607160418.pfpmeqvt&cat=science


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


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


Telegraph floored by DDoS attack

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| Cyber-attacks have been much in the news of late. Last week,
| Russian and European leaders held a summit in the aftermath of a
| three-week cycle of denial of service attacks targeting the
| Baltic countries' internet infrastructure.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/22/telegraph_ddos/


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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