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ussian youth movement claims to have carried out cyber attacks on Estonia
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| "We taught the Estonian regime the lesson that if they act illegally, we will
| respond in an adequate way," boasted Goloskokov in the FT interview. They
| didn't do anything illegal, he said. "We just visited the various internet
| sites, over and over, and they stopped working." The Estonians' plight was
| caused by their own technological limitations in handling the traffic volume,
| he explained. During the attacks on the Estonian IT infrastructure two years
| ago, the country was largely cut off from the global internet, and domestic
| government and banking sites became inaccessible.
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http://www.h-online.com/security/Russian-youth-movement-claims-to-have-carried-out-cyber-attacks-on-Estonia--/news/112828
New Conficker Expected April 1
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| The third Conficker malware variant in infected machines is set to activate
| April 1, says the director of threat research at CA where the malware sample
| first discovered last week by Symantec is being examined.
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| "It's set to go off April 1, 2009 and Conficker will generate 50,000 URLS
| daily," says Don DeBolt, CA's director of threat research.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/161267/conficker_variant_expected_april_1.html?tk=rss_news
Related:
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
Another Estonia Cyberattack
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| The attack, which ended Tuesday, was minimally disruptive, according to
| Hillar Aarelaid, manager of Estonia's Computer Emergency Response Team
| (CERT). He described it as an "ordinary DDOS" (distributed denial of service)
| attack in which the news agency's servers were flooded with Internet traffic,
| in an attempt to crash them.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,141438-c,cybercrime/article.html#
Estonian DDoS attacks "highly organised" but spontaneous
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| Such a confederation was identified in the case of the Dark OwneD Mafia
| cracker network, 110760 five of whom were recently arrested in Spain. It
| might indeed explain why only one person has so far been prosecuted in
| connection with the Estonian attacks.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/108518/from/rss09
Gaining System-Level Access To Vista
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| This video shows a method by which a user can use a Linux distro called
| BackTrack to gain system access to Windows Vista without logging into Windows
| or knowing the username or password for any accounts. To accomplish this, the
| user renames cmd.exe to Utilman.exe — this is the program that brings up the
| Accessibility options for users without sight or with limited vision. The
| attack takes advantage of the fact that the Utility Manager can be invoked
| before the user logs into the system. The user gains System access, which is
| a level higher than Administrator. The person who discovered this security
| hole claims that XP, 2000, 2003 and NT are not vulnerable to it; only Windows
| Vista is.
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http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/26/0257213
Study Says Linux More Secure
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| More than 70 percent people surveyed said they found Red Hat Linux less
| vulnerable to security issues than Microsoft's operating system.
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http://www.techtree.com/India/News/Study_Says_Linux_More_Secure/551-88850-580.html
Study: 70 percent say Red Hat more secure than Windows
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080425-study-70-percent-say-red-hat-more-secure-than-windows.html
Vista security credentials tarnished in malware survey
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| "[Vista]has been hailed by Microsoft as the most secure version of Windows to
| date. However, recent research conducted with statistics from over 1.4
| million computers within the ThreatFire community has shown that Windows
| Vista is more susceptible to malware than the eight year old Windows 2000
| operating system, and only 37 per cent more secure than Windows XP," said
| Simon Clausen, chief exec at PC Tools.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/09/win_malware_survey/
Vista as Insecure as Windows 2000
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/145681/vista_as_insecure_as_windows_2000.html
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