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[News] [Rival] Olympic Malware, for Windows Users Only

Pro-Tibet rootkit Trojan poses as cartoon

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| Malware writers have passed the baton in the race to take advantage of the 
| Olympics with the second attempt to load malware onto PCs in a week. 
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/15/pro_tibet_trojan/

Regulatory compliance 'irrelevant' to security

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| Companies who get hung up on regulatory compliance are developing a false 
| sense of security which leaves them just as open to malware attacks the chief 
| exec of tools vendor Protegrity has warned.  
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/15/pci_dss_compliance/

The Windows botnets epidemic will only continue to get worse. I personally get
more than 5000 spam per day.


Recent:

Bots rule in cyberspace

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| USA TODAY REPORTS that on an average day, 40 per cent of the 800 million 
| computers connected to the Internet are bots used to send out spam, viruses 
| and to mine for sensitive personal data.  
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/17/bots-rule-cyberspace
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2008-03-16-computer-botnets_N.htm

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