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• A rogue's gallery of DoS attacks

  In 2001, even the creme de la creme of network security is vulnerable to denial of service attacks. ZDNet takes you through the latest lineup of DoS suspects. Are you protected against them?

• Worm paves way for crippling DDoS attack

  A new worm that leaves behind two Trojan horse programs has begun spreading over the Internet, and may be paving the way for a crippling distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.

• Storm worm botnet threatens national security?

  In just eight months the Storm worm has infected more than 20 million computers and built a zombie army -- or botnet -- capable of launching DDoS attacks that could be used against any organisation or even damage critical infrastructure, according to security experts.

• Why MyDoom-like attacks will persist

  Already, experts are beginning to talk about how MyDoom revealed the inadequacies of countermeasures designed to thwart such attacks.

• Symantec Web site under DDoS attack

  An e-mail worm is recruiting computers for a coordinated attack on antivirus vendor Symantec's Web site.

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  Admins stuck between a hack and a zero-day

  The world of IT security is in chaos, with CSOs seemingly on the front lines of a full scale global cyberwar being fought out by government hackers, botnet-controlling criminal gangs and compromised Web sites. Can we ever hope to keep networks safe in such an environment?

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  Limelight kills botnets better than cops do

  Botnet operators have become public enemy number-one as consumers, businesses and governments fall foul to identity theft, DDoS attacks and spam. Yet no one appears to be able to stop the spread of bots -- except maybe the media.

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• Worm attacks Google, Microsoft and the Hungarian Prime Minister

  The latest variant of the Zafi worm was discovered on Wednesday and unlike the previous two variants, Zafi.C has been coded to launch a DDoS attack against Google.com, Microsoft.com and miniszterelnok.hu, which is the Web site of the Hungarian Prime Minister.

• How to attack spammers in your sleep

  Plans are afoot to attack spammers by launching the kind of cyber-attack favoured by organised crime and hackers with an axe to grind.

• Researchers infiltrate denial of service networks

  Security researchers have been infiltrating denial of service 'botnets' to study what may be an unstoppable Distributed Denial of Service (DoS) technique.

• 2007: How was it for security?

  Security researchers worked overtime in 2007, which turned out to be a nightmare for software vendors from day one.

• Fizzer worm spreads across the Internet

  A very clever mass-mailing worm is spreading rapidly across the Internet and has many different components, each timed to trigger different processes.

Reviews (2)

• The Year Ahead: The future of viruses

  In 2002, users and companies got a respite from the disruptive viruses of 2001. But a more sophisticated generation of worms is on the way.

• Microsoft Windows XP SP2

  We recommend installing Windows XP SP2 but only after Microsoft has had a few weeks to work out the kinks.

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