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DDoS attacks knock Radio Free Europe off the Web
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| Several Radio Free Europe Web sites were knocked off the Internet a week ago
| in a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that the news organization's
| spokesman compared to attempts decades ago by the Soviet Union to jam the
| US-funded group's radio signals.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=95659825&rid=-50
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
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
EU: Europarlement testing Ubuntu, OpenOffice and Firefox
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| The European Parliament's IT department is testing the use of GNU/Linux
| distribution Ubuntu, OpenOffice, Firefox and other Open Source applications,
| the British MEP James Nicholson explained last week in a letter to Italian
| MEP Marco Cappato.
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http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7565
Is Microsoft Now Banned from EU Contracts?
http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=697&blogid=14
Euro MP thinks Microsoft should be banned from government contracts
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/04/10/member-eu-parliament-asks
Green MEP says Microsoft should be excluded from EU contract awarding procedure
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/106338/from/rss09
MEPs Question Microsoft's Eligibility for Gov't Projects
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| The Commission, which has not responded yet, is allowed a few weeks to reply.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/144591/meps_question_microsofts_eligibility_for_govt_projects.html
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