FBI looks at Chinese role in Darfur site hack
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| The hackers seemed to be primarily interested in gathering data on his group,
| Brooks-LaSure said. Save Darfur has been trying to get China to pressure
| Sudan's government into stopping the mass killings in Darfur's ongoing civil
| war. China is one of Sudan's largest trading partners.
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| Computers in China have been the source of many attacks in recent years,
| although security experts say that sometimes China-based machines are simply
| used as jumping-off points for attackers who actually reside in other
| countries such as the U.S. or Russia.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/22/AR2008032201128.html
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
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2008-03-16-computer-botnets_N.htm
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