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    The Best Western hotel chain has given details of a hack involving one of its hotels, but downplayed reports that eight million customers have been affected.

  • Kaminsky details DNS flaw

    Security researcher Dan Kaminsky has offered more details about a fundamental flaw in the Domain Name System and the extent of the vulnerability.

  • Open source intrusion detector flawed

    Snort, the open-source intrusion-detection software, is vulnerable to hackers, its developers said this week.

  • DNS disaster: first attacks reported

    The first attacks that are likely to have stemmed from a serious Domain Name System flaw have been reported.

  • Cyber-extortion on the rise, warns Schneier

    Noted security expert, Bruce Schneier, has declared that cyber-extortion is on the rise, but has warned importantly that it mainly affects "fringe" industries such as online gambling, rather than critical national infrastructure and other major organisations.

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