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'Spam attack' halts Virgin e-mail
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| Tens of thousands of Virgin customers have spent four days cut off from, or
| with little access to, their e-mail accounts after a suspected spam attack.
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| The problem affected a company which processes messages delivered through the
| Virgin.net platform.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7663982.stm
They use Microsoft (see bottom). Also resulting from these 150 billion SPAM per
day (brute force):
Bank turmoil fuels phishing boom
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| Hi-tech fraudsters are taking advantage of the global financial turmoil, say
| governments and security experts.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7663055.stm
World Bank Under Cyber Siege in 'Unprecedented Crisis'
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| The World Bank Group's computer network — one of the largest repositories of
| sensitive data about the economies of every nation — has been raided
| repeatedly by outsiders for more than a year, FOX News has learned.
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| It is still not known how much information was stolen. But sources inside the
| bank confirm that servers in the institution's highly-restricted treasury
| unit were deeply penetrated with spy software last April. Invaders also had
| full access to the rest of the bank's network for nearly a month in June and
| July.
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,435681,00.html
Spy software. Sounds like Windows, but needs to be confirmed...
Recent:
Virgin Media taps Microsoft in lengthy email outage
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| Virgin Media customers have been suffering email outages for several days,
| prompting the firm to call in Microsoft engineers to help with an urgent
| upgrade.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/18/virgin_blueyonder_email_outage_microsoft/
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