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[News] [Rival] Another UK Newspaper Knocked Down by Windows Zombies?

Another day, another UK newspaper website goes down

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| The Independent newspaper's website fell over early this morning 
| and is still struggling to get back on its feet.
| 
| [...]
| 
| he Mirror, which went offline for much of yesterday, is back 
| online today. 
`----

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/31/independent_website_down/

If DDOSed, this may be the third one (in the UK alone) this week.

Some more financial news relating to MSFT speak about disappointing 'Vista
effect' (on hardware demand) and MSFT declining (despite buybacks). Not good
days for that company, which has resorted to becoming a bully.


Last/this week:

The Mirror website cracked

,----[ Quote ]
| The website for UK tabloid The Mirror has been unavailable all day.
|
| [...]
|
| Last week saw problems for the Telegraph which suffered a a denial of
| service attack shortly after it redesigned the site. 
`----

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/30/mirror_website_down/


Telegraph floored by DDoS attack

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| Cyber-attacks have been much in the news of late. Last week,
| Russian and European leaders held a summit in the aftermath of a
| three-week cycle of denial of service attacks targeting the
| Baltic countries' internet infrastructure.
`----

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/22/telegraph_ddos/


China Crafts Cyberweapons

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| The Defense Department reports China is building cyberwarfare
| units and developing viruses.
`----

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,132284-pg,1/article.html(News)


Estonia suspects Kremlin in Web attacks

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| He said more than 1 million computers worldwide have been used in
| recent weeks to attack Estonian government and business Web sites
| since a dispute arose with Moscow over Estonia's moving of a
| Soviet-era war memorial from downtown Tallinn.
`----

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/05/17/estonia.cyber.attacks.ap/index.html?eref=rss_tech


Related:

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| Ah, from the horse's mouth: Microsoft just might be held legally 
| responsible for selling software that is insecure.
`----

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2006112223522439


Experts are calling for product liability for software

,----[ Quote ]
| "Product liability does not apply to software," Gerald Spindler
| of the Faculty of Law of the University of Göttingen complained.
| "But what if a whole company comes to a standstill due to faulty
| software?" he mused.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/86932/from/rss09

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