Winny Trojan author arrested in Japan
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| Computers infected with one strain of Harada displayed a message
| saying, "You're already dead. Come here. And apologize to me. If you don't,
| this PC will self-destruct." On other infected computers, system files are
| erased or music and video files are replaced with images of a person named
| Harada.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10789_3-9857568-57.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Virus writers charged with copyright violation
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| "It isn't illegal to write viruses in Japan, so the author of the Trojan
| horse has been arrested for breaching copyright because he used cartoon
| graphics without permission in his malware," explained Graham Cluley, senior
| technology consultant for Sophos.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/24/japanese_vxer_arrests/
Man Convicted In Estonia Cyber Attack
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| An Estonian court has fined a man tied to hacking official Web sites during
| last year's riots over the moving of a Soviet war memorial.
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/01/24/man-convicted-in-estonia-cyber-attack
It seems like it might be the cause of that recent Windows zombies attack.
Estonia fines man for DDoS attacks
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| Earlier this month an Estonian news site was hit with a sustained DDoS from
| a botnet, security tools firm Arbor Networks reports.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/24/estonian_ddos_fine/
Shouldn't Windows be classified a weapon and therefore be banned? Only a couple
of weeks ago it was revealed that Vista can be totally hijacked by sending it
a TCP/IP packet. That's security???
Related:
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#
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
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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/
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