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  • Spy botnet hits embassies down under

    Two foreign embassies on Australian soil have allegedly been infected by an espionage botnet dubbed GhostNet, according to security researchers.

  • Spam report: volumes rising again

    Spammers knocked offline two weeks ago when their hosting company, McColo, was shut down are finally coming back online, security researchers said this week.

  • Flaw in BGP net protocol

    Security researchers have warned of an underlying security issue concerning the Border Gateway Protocol, the core internet routing protocol.

  • Massive fraud server exposed

    A server discovered in June contained 50GB of stolen user account and financial details, including 9,000 bank and credit-card account credentials and 463,582 user account passwords, according to a report published at the Black Hat conference last week.

  • Georgian president suffers cyberattack

    The website of the Georgian president was the subject of a distributed-denial-of-service attack over the weekend.

  • Storm worm email claims US attacked Iran

    Security vendor Websense says the infamous 'Storm' botnet and trojan combination has been sending out false emails claiming the US has invaded Iran, including links to provocative videos.

  • Storm worming its way through love

    After a hiatus, the gang behind the Storm worm is attempting to exploit people's curiosity about a fictional love interest to tempt users into downloading the malware, according to security training organisation the Sans Institute.

  • What really happened in Estonia's cyberwar?

    One year ago, the Estonian government moved a war memorial honouring Russian-Estonians who died fighting the Nazis, a move that may have triggered what some believe is the first instance of a sustained, international cyberwar.

  • US wants its own botnet for preemptive strikes

    The US Air Force is talking openly about forming botnets to launch preemptive attacks in cyberspace.

  • Spam turns 30 - still no end in sight

    This week, the world marks an anniversary that has changed the face and other anatomical regions of e-mail inboxes everywhere: the first known spam e-mail was sent 30 years ago on Saturday.

  • Botnets threaten the Internet as we know it

    Botnets are the biggest threat facing the Internet today and neither education, technology or the police can help, according to experts at the RSA security conference in San Francisco last week.

  • US Homeland Security wants a cyber-nuclear bomb

    The US wants to help defend against cyber attacks by embarking on a project that would build the equivalent of an online nuclear bomb.

  • Five percent of Web traffic caused by DDoS attacks

    After analysing traffic from 68 ISPs around the globe, a security researcher claims that as much as five percent of all Internet traffic is from DDoS-attacks.

  • Teen bot herder pleads guilty in NZ

    An 18-year-old bot herder from New Zealand plead guilty on Monday to six charges resulting from a failed botnet upgrade that led to a denial-of-service attack on the University of Pennsylvania.

  • Botnet fast-flux cloacking and leasing on the rise

    Security vendor RSA has reported an increase in the use of "fast-flux" to obscure zombie computer activities. However, University of Cambridge researchers disagree, saying it's the same botnet being leased out to others.

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