"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> The year 2007: A review through the crystal ball
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> | 2007 was the year of the super bots: Never before has malicious software
> | been equipped with so many functions that help it to hide from antivirus
> | software and to resist removal...
> |
> | While in 2006, DDoS attacks with botnets were mainly targeted at
> | unwanted competitors, online betting offices and consumer protection
> | sites, 2007 also saw large attacks launched on critical
> | infrastructures. In April, the stock exchange nearly crashed,
> | when a DDoS attack on the electronic trading system disconnected
> | it from the Internet for several days, resulting in automated
> | control programs loosing control and attempting to divest shares
> | in a panic reaction.
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>
> http://www.heise-security.co.uk/articles/83058
"The sky is falling!" -- Chicken Little, 1943
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