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Marching off to cyberwar
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| AS RUSSIAN tanks rolled into Georgia in August, another force was also
| mobilising—not in the physical world, but online. Russian nationalists (or
| indeed anyone else) who wished to take part in the attack on Georgia could do
| so from anywhere with an internet connection, simply by visiting one of
| several pro-Russia websites and downloading the software and instructions
| needed to perform a “distributed denial of service” (DDoS) attack. This
| involves sending a flood of bogus requests to an internet server, so that it
| is overwhelmed by the demand and becomes unusable.
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http://www.economist.com/science/tq/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12673385
Report: 21 Million German Bank Accounts for Sale
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| Black market criminals are offering to sell details on 21 million German bank
| accounts for €12 million (US$15.3 million), according to an investigative
| report published Saturday.
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| Reporters for WirtschaftsWoche (Economic Week) managed to obtain a CD
| containing 1.2 million accounts after a November face-to-face meeting with
| criminals in a Hamburg hotel, according to the magazine.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/155149/.html?tk=rss_news
Disconnect Windows.
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
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