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Al-Qaeda targets net-connected coffee machine
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| An Aussie risk advisory services manager has issued a chilling security alert
| concerning the Jura F90 net-connected coffee machine, warning caffeine-heads
| that the hi-tech brewing device could open their Windows PC to exploitation
| by internet paedophiles and al-Qaeda*, CNET reports.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/18/coffee_machine_menace/
Lower entry barrier for script kiddies (literally kids) that own Windows
botnets:
Instant trojan to worm toolkit sighted
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| The Trojan2Worm (T2W) toolkit turns any executable file into a worm with
| auto-spreading capabilities. As such it provides the ability for Trojan
| infection agents to acquire worm-like spreading abilities.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/18/trojan_worm_toolkit/
Recent:
I Was A Teenage Bot Master
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| One day in May 2005, a 16-year-old hacker...
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| [...]
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| So great was SoBe's sense of impunity he continued the scheme even after
| Ancheta was arrested a few months later and charged with 17 felonies related
| to the hijacking of almost 400,000 PCs, some of them belonging to the US
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| Department of Defense.
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/08/downfall_of_botnet_master_sobe_owns/
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