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Pharma link spammers invade Live Space
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| Cybercrime affiliates of unlicensed
| pharmaceutical websites have begun moving on
| from attacks purely designed to poison Google
| search engine results, and are now targetting
| Microsoft's web properties.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/23/link_spammers_hit_live_space/
auDA Takedown
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| On Fri 18-12-2009 auDA issued a notice giving
| us 3 hours to provide evidence of our
| eligibility to hold stephenconroy.com.au and
| related domain names. We asked for reasonable
| time to prepare and make representations on
| our eligibility but auDA refused to grant
| this, insisting we reply within the 3 hour
| window.
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http://stephen-conroy.com/page.php?4
Further thoughts on the filter
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| To satisfy the policy objective of a
| mandatory filter for children, active
| acknowledgement that the subscriber is aware
| the government strongly recommends a filtered
| option for homes where children use the
| internet could be a part of this active
| (mandatory) choice.
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http://www.katelundy.com.au/2009/12/21/further-thoughts-on-the-filter/
Russian hackers rob US banks
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| IN THE SEASON of good will, the FBI has been
| saying that some Russian hackers have been
| robbing US banks.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1567020/russian-hackers-rob-us-banks
Christmas hackers take down retailers
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| HACKERS TARGETED the domain name service
| (DNS) providers for Amazon, Wal-Mart, and
| Expedia yesterday and bought them all to a
| grinding halt.
|
| Several of the retailers websites were taken
| offline, which effectively prevented anyone
| from finding any last minute ties and socks,
| er, presents there.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1567021/christmas-hackers-retailers
DDoS attack scrooges Amazon and others
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| Service to Amazon, Wal-Mart and several other
| shopping sites was briefly blocked on
| Wednesday evening when their DNS provider was
| hit by a distributed denial of service (DDoS)
| attack.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/24/ddos_attack_ultradns_december_09/
Rogue Antivirus Operations Thrive in 2009
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| From serving malicious ads to poisoning
| search engine results for recently deceased
| actress Brittany Murphy, rogue antivirus
| operations have been going strong all year
| long.
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http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Rogue-Antivirus-Operations-Thrive-in-2009-651924/
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.
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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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