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Microsoft plugs critical DirectShow, Video ActiveX holes
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| Microsoft on Tuesday issued patches to fix critical vulnerabilities in
| DirectShow and Video ActiveX that have been targeted in attacks, as well as
| fixes for holes in Embedded OpenType Font Engine and Microsoft Publisher that
| could allow someone to remotely take control of the PC.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10286526-245.html
DDoS attacks on South Korea and USA originated in the UK
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| The South Korean secret service has blamed North Korea and its 'hacker army'
| for three waves of DDoS attacks on US and South Korean government and company
| servers. The botnet of zombie computers, of which 20,000 alone were reported
| to be located inside South Korea, were not just used for carrying out the
| DDoS attacks, but also to spread the MyDoom trojan, programmed to delete the
| host computer's hard drive at a specific time – although erasure only occured
| in a few cases.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/142161/from/rss09
Related:
IMDB victim of denial-of-service attack
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| On Friday, Internet movie database IMDB fell victim to a sustained
| distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that coincided with Amazon.com
| being offline, says one researcher.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-10789_3-9962676-57.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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
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