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Group behind Twitter hack takes down Baidu search engine
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| The group that took down Twitter.com last
| month has apparently claimed another victim:
| China's largest search engine Baidu.com.
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http://infoworld.com/d/security-central/group-behind-twitter-hack-takes-down-baidu-search-engine-383
A new approach to China
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| Like many other well-known organizations, we
| face cyber attacks of varying degrees on a
| regular basis. In mid-December, we detected a
| highly sophisticated and targeted attack on
| our corporate infrastructure originating from
| China that resulted in the theft of
| intellectual property from Google. However,
| it soon became clear that what at first
| appeared to be solely a security incident--
| albeit a significant one--was something quite
| different.
|
| First, this attack was not just on Google. As
| part of our investigation we have discovered
| that at least twenty other large companies
| from a wide range of businesses--including
| the Internet, finance, technology, media and
| chemical sectors--have been similarly
| targeted. We are currently in the process of
| notifying those companies, and we are also
| working with the relevant U.S. authorities.
|
| Second, we have evidence to suggest that a
| primary goal of the attackers was accessing
| the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights
| activists. Based on our investigation to date
| we believe their attack did not achieve that
| objective. Only two Gmail accounts appear to
| have been accessed, and that activity was
| limited to account information (such as the
| date the account was created) and subject
| line, rather than the content of emails
| themselves.
|
| [...]
|
| These attacks and the surveillance they have
| uncovered--combined with the attempts over
| the past year to further limit free speech on
| the web--have led us to conclude that we
| should review the feasibility of our business
| operations in China. We have decided we are
| no longer willing to continue censoring our
| results on Google.cn, and so over the next
| few weeks we will be discussing with the
| Chinese government the basis on which we
| could operate an unfiltered search engine
| within the law, if at all. We recognize that
| this may well mean having to shut down
| Google.cn, and potentially our offices in
| China.
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http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html
Encryption software is set to soar
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| JUNIPER RESEARCH reckons that with the value
| of enterprise information rocketing almost
| three quarters of handsets will soon need to
| have added encryption technology.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1585725/encryption-software-set-soar
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
Botnets Running Rampant
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| How much money is being stolen by cybercriminals? No one knows, and no one
| even knows how to go about coming up with that number, IronPort's Peterson
| said.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/144489/botnets_running_rampant.html
Online banking fraud 'up 8,000%'
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| The UK has seen an 8,000% increase in fake internet banking scams
| in the past two years, the government's financial watchdog has warned.
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| The Financial Services Authority (FSA) told peers it was "very concerned"
| about the growth in "phishing".
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6177555.stm
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