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News (14)

• Worm hijacks open source database

  Thousands of MySQL servers around the world are being infected with a worm which could facilitate a massive denial-of-service attack.

• Dutch police nab suspected 'bot herders'

  Dutch police have arrested three individuals suspected of hacking into more than 100,000 computers worldwide and using the hijacked systems in online crimes.

• Cybercriminals get stuck into honeypots

  Cybercriminals are increasingly fighting each other, as well as antivirus vendors, in pursuit of illegal gain, Kaspersky Lab has warned.

• Backup software flaws pose risk

  Two makers of backup software are dealing with security holes that could let an outsider hijack customers' systems.

• Symantec: Botnets on the rise in Asia

  More computers in the Asia-Pacific region are being hijacked and used remotely by hackers to send viruses, according to a recent study by security vendor Symantec.

Features and Case Studies (4)

• Call to arms against cybercrooks

  The CTO of betting exchange Betfair says that more cross-industry cooperation is needed to prevent denial-of-service attacks against online businesses.

• The business of e-blackmail

  The Internet and e-mail have become weapons of choice as criminals take industrial espionage and blackmail to new heights.

• Keeping ahead of DNS attacks

  The domain name system--the global directory that maps names to Internet protocol addresses--was designed to distribute authority, making organisations literally "masters of their own domain".

• Run! The bots are coming

  If there is one eye-catching trend in Symantec's latest half-yearly Internet security threat report, it is that bots are upon us.

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