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In a series of incidents, which began when a window was broken late on Saturday night, Philips’ offices in North Ryde were broken into once over the weekend and again on Monday night, sources have told ZDNet Australia.
The Alldas.de Web site, which archives copies of Web pages that have been digitally defaced by online hoodlums, has announced that the founder of the site would be retiring and the site moving to a new domain.
Unknown attackers downed the largest recorder of Web site defacements on Sunday, the same day that vandals had been thought to be planning an online graffiti contest.
A call for online vandals to take part in a Web site defacement contest has some companies warning clients to beware over the US holiday weekend.
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Conceding that its strategy of patching Windows holes as they emerge has not worked, Microsoft plans next week to outline a new security effort focused on what the company calls "securing the perimeter," a company executive said.
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