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Taking FOSS Security Seriously
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| "The fact that any security issue can be seen by thousands of eyes, in fact,
| makes it easy to find and fix security issues. If you got proprietary
| software, just because the security vulnerability may not be seen in the open
| doesn't make the code more secure," Kant told LinuxInsider.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/67802.html
It's time to get rid of Windows
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| I thought that the massive DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks that
| knocked Twitter and other social networks out was because of Iran's
| government trying to shut down its protesters. I was wrong. Hundreds of
| millions of Internet users were annoyed because of Windows botnet-based DDoS
| aimed at one (1) person.
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| According to security company McAfee's director of security research Dave
| Marcus, "This was a very targeted attack, and what the research shows is that
| it was aimed at one particular person, and that person's accounts on Twitter,
| Facebook, YouTube and LiveJournal." The target is a pro-Georgian blogger, but
| he's still just one man.
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/14510/its_time_to_get_rid_of_windows
Pro-Georgia blogger 'George' target of Twitter attack
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/08/07/russia.georgia.twitter.attack/
The Most Hated Man Online?
http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/08/most-hated-man-online.html
Twitter Continues to Battle DDoS Attack
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/169897/twitter_continues_to_battle_ddos_attack.html
http://twitter.com/glynmoody/statuses/3169393334
"How Twitter was killed - http://bit.ly/mxj5s with a Windows botnet, probably.
Time to start suing Microsoft, maybe... #twitter #botnets "
Related:
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. Â
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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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