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[News] [Rival] Disinformation + Malware, Courtesy of Windows Botnets

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Malware authors declare start of World War III (again)

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| Attempts to play the "clip" on a Windows PC result in infection by the 
| Tibs-UO Trojan. 
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/12/wwiii_trojan/

UK to upgrade computer law

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| Professor Peter Sommer, a cyber security expert at the London School of 
| Economics, said: "There has been a delay in the implementation because the 
| Home Office got rather confused and now nothing regarding cyber crime is 
| particularly fashionable with the government anyway. They are more concerned 
| with anything to do with knives, ant-social behaviour or terrorism."    
| 
| [...]
| 
| "It's all a bit messy in my view. The EU version is much broader. There's 
| more concern at the EU level on the protection of information systems than 
| attacks on simpler computers," he added.  
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/07/10/uk-rapped-hacking-laws


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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