Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> U.S. agencies given deadline to secure XP, Vista configurations
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> | The goal: Make sure government computers are run securely
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9013967&intsrc=hm_list
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> Related:
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> FAA May Ditch Microsoft's Windows Vista And Office For Google And Linux
> Combo
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> | Bowen said he's in talks with the aviation safety agency's main
> | hardware supplier, Dell Computer, to determine if it could
> | deliver Linux-based computers capable of accessing Google
> | Apps through a non-Microsoft browser once the FAA's XP-based
> | computers pass their shelf life.
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> http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197800480
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> Zombie botnets attack global DNS servers
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> | Hackers launched a sustained attack last night against key root servers
> | which form the backbone of the internet.
> |
> | Security firm Sophos said that botnets of zombie PCs bombarded the
> | internet's domain name system (DNS) servers with traffic.
> |
> | "These zombie computers could have brought the web to its knees,"
> | said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos.
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> http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2174383/zombie-botnets-attack-global
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> Botnet 'pandemic' threatens to strangle the net
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> | Cerf estimated that between 100 million and 150 million of the
> | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> | 600 million PCs on the internet are under the control of hackers,
> | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> | the BBC reports.
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> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/
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> EveryDNS, OpenDNS Under Botnet DDoS Attack
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> | The last time the Web mob (spammers and phishers using botnets)
> | decided to go after a security service, Blue Security was forced
> | to fold and collateral damage extended to several businesses,
> | including Six Apart.
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http://securitywatch.eweek.com/exploits_and_attacks/everydns_opendns_under_botnet_ddos_attack.html
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> Homeland Security sees cyberthreats on the rise
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> | To test the nation's response to a cyberattack, the Department
> | of Homeland Security plans to hold another major exercise,
> | called Cyberstorm II, in March 2008, Garcia said. A first
> | such exercise happened early last year.
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http://news.com.com/2100-7355_3-6157809.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
> http://tinyurl.com/2dpbmv
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> Perspective: Microsoft security--no more second chances?
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> | CNET News.com's Charles Cooper says the software maker is running out
> | of excuses for a history of poor security.
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> | As if Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff didn't have enough on
> | his plate.
> |
> | Not only has he had to deal with Katrina and Osama. Now he's also got to
> | whip Steve Ballmer and the crew at Microsoft into shape. If past is
> | prologue, that last task may be the most daunting of all.
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http://news.com.com/2010-1002_3-6104512.html?part=rss&tag=6104512&subj=news
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> U.S. cyber counterattack: Bomb 'em one way or the other
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> | If the United States found itself under a major cyberattack aimed
> | at undermining the natio's critical information infrastructure,
> | the Department of Defense is prepared, based on the authority of
> | the president, to launch a cyber counterattack or an actual
> | bombing of an attack source.
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> http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/020807-rsa-cyber-attacks.html
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> US plans for cyber attack revealed
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> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37563
I was hoping to see something else here when I read the title, I thought it
was the beginnings of someone at last taking security out of MS's hands and
making them hand it to a third party. It is the only way anything will be
done about it. I don't care who that third party is, McAfee, Symantec,
Cisco or some other party we have come to trust for MS security systems,
just so long as they are given the power to kick ass and get MS sorted once
and for all.
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