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Creaky old Windows flaw rises, divides doommongers
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| A new Windows-based denial of service
| attacks reportedly exploits a 10-year old OS
| flaw to crash vulnerable systems.
|
| [...]
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| 2X, which is not well known in the world of
| information security research, issued a
| press release over its discovery on
| Wednesday billing it "one of the biggest
| security vulnerabilities in the Windows OS
| for many years".
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/24/win_crash_bug/
Cyber attacks will 'catastrophically' spook public, warns GCHQ
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| The offical British view casts ongoing talks
| between the US and Russia - aimed at fostering
| cooperation between states on internet
| security and agreeing ground rules - in a
| pessimistic light.
|
| [...]
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| "The increasing sophistication of criminal
| cyber tools and the availability of cheap,
| fast broadband will mean that states are able
| to achieve their aims by hiring criminal
| botnets to carry out DDOS or other attacks on
| their enemies' infrastructure."
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/22/csoc_report/
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
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
Online banking fraud 'up 8,000%'
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| The UK has seen an 8,000% increase in fake internet banking scams
| in the past two years, the government's financial watchdog has warned.
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| The Financial Services Authority (FSA) told peers it was "very concerned"
| about the growth in "phishing".
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6177555.stm
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