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Cyber-fraudsters strike gold at South African government
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| The South African government has lost more than £12m (199m Rand) over the
| last three years thanks to a cybercrime syndicate using spyware.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/10/south_africa_government_fraud/
Hacker cops to $70k botnet rampage
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| King's distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on CastleCops and
| KillaNet Technologies were so potent that the sites and their service
| providers sustained as much as $70,000 in damage, according to court
| documents. Unlike more sophisticated hackers who take pains to cover their
| tracks, King frequently taunted his victims in online chat rooms even as he
| flooded their servers with as much as 1 gigabyte of data per second.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/11/botherder_admits_to_ddos_assault/
Hacker Pleads Guilty to Attacking Anti-phishing Group
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| Killanet was attacked between 2004 and 2006 by King's botnet of about 7,000
| hacked computers, the DoJ said in a statement.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/146953/hacker_pleads_guilty_to_attacking_antiphishing_group.html
Another police website hacked
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| This is starting to get a little tedious. The Bedfordshire Police website has
| just been taken down after it was discovered that every page had been
| replaced by an animated man carrying a Tunisian flag. Underneath, according
| to the BBC, was a green symbol and a Muslim prayer written in Arabic. Don’t
| bother clicking on the link: as at mid-day, it is still not back up.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/10/police_website_hacked/
Something similar happened to the Microsoft UK Web site last year.
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
Botnets Running Rampant
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| How much money is being stolen by cybercriminals? No one knows, and no one
| even knows how to go about coming up with that number, IronPort's Peterson
| said.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/144489/botnets_running_rampant.html
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