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RSS attack hUS Election 2004: Kerry takes on offshoring
News The paper, published one week before the presidential election, is the latest move by Kerry to attack President Bush on economic matters. Software programmers and other professionals hurt by outsourcing should get federal assistance, Democratic US... [27 Oct 2004]
NASA websites defaced with link to Iraq 'image'
News The US government is unlikely to take the attack lying down, the source added. As for the severity of the attack, "I've seen worse, and it ain't pretty", the engineer said. The maintainers of an online archive of defaced websites say 13 NASA sites... [18 Dec 2003]
Sobig the worst worm ever
News Petry said: "We chose to not respond to spam or viruses, because it can quickly turn into a denial of service attack. The Sobig virus deluging users' inboxes again this week is the largest epidemic of a mass-mailing worm to date, according to... [21 Aug 2003]
Website defacement contest - mischief-making little worse than normal
News The attack left the security site Zone-H.org mostly inaccessible until late on the weekend and the effects of the contest largely in dispute. Unknown attackers downed the largest recorder of website defacements on Sunday, the same day that vandals... [07 Jul 2003]
Hacker vandalism contest controversy
News Script kiddies are non-technical vandals that use tools created by other, more knowledgeable hackers to attack systems. A call for online vandals to take part in a website defacement contest has some companies warning clients to beware over the... [03 Jul 2003]
2003 is becoming a virus writers playground warns Sophos
News Increased methods of attack increase the likelihood of infection. These findings support the assertions of most other vendors in the antivirus field, where there is a belief that virus writers are becoming more and more advanced with every attack. [30 Jun 2003]
Home PC users to blame for virus outbreaks
News Its dual-mode attack saw it accounting for 30 per cent of all reports of viruses to antivirus Sophos in the last month - well ahead of former top spot incumbent Klez, which by then only accounted for around eight per cent of all reports in third... [16 Dec 2002]
Virus Top Ten: Bugbear top of the pops
News Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, said: "Bugbear dominates the chart for the second month as it continues to out-fox users with its dual mode of attack. Bugbear has claimed a second month at the top of the virus charts. [29 Nov 2002]
Internet survives massive attack
News The so-called distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack levelled a barrage of data at the 13 domain name service root servers and apparently is ongoing, according to internet performance measurement company Matrix NetSystems. [23 Oct 2002]
Klez: the self-destroying virus
News But the attack may also wipe out the attacker. A variant of the Klez virus was set to go into action over the weekend, erasing a host of files on infected hard drives. The 8-month-old mass-mailing computer virus called Klez.E triggers its payload... [06 Sep 2002]
Virus Top 10: Klez still clinging on
News Yaha came to prominence as a politically motivated virus, launching a rudimentary denial of service attack on the Pakistan government's website and encouraging Indian hackers and virus writers to join forces and attack Pakistan. [01 Aug 2002]
Lernout & Hauspie buys Dictaphone
News L&H will use this established customer base, and inherited technologies to attack the European market. Voice recognition software developers Lernout & Hauspie (L&H) has acquired Dictaphone Corporation for its substantial market share in... [09 Mar 2000]
