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• Attack on Net server fails

  An apparently coordinated attempt to cripple the computers that serve as the address books for the Internet failed Monday.

• Chinese hackers back off from CNN attack

  Late last week, leaders of a group of Chinese hackers called off a planned denial of service attack on CNN.com, after it was reported on the same day that the attack would occur over the weekend, in protest at "anti-Chinese" media across the Western world.

• Cyber terror: Australia faces the storm

  Cyber Storm II, the international simulation of a coordinated attack on global cyber infrastructure, starts this week.

• What really happened in Estonia's cyberwar?

  One year ago, the Estonian government moved a war memorial honouring Russian-Estonians who died fighting the Nazis, a move that may have triggered what some believe is the first instance of a sustained, international cyberwar.

• Malware on 'trusted' websites has quadrupled

  The amount of web-based malware hosted by trusted websites has increased by over 400 percent since last year, according to security vendor ScanSafe.

• Chinese hackers disable CNN.com for three hours

  CNN.com was knocked offline for three hours shortly after Chinese hackers claimed to have called off a planned denial of service attack against the US publisher.

• Virus encyclopaedia infects visitors with malware

  Security vendor Trend Micro's UK and Japanese Web sites were hacked last week; attackers managed to inject malicious iFrames into their "virus encyclopaedia" pages.

• US military to use network warfare to break enemy

  The special US cyber attack unit US Air Force Cyber Command will use network warfare such as denial of service and confidential data loss as stage one of a physical attack to soften an enemy's defences, according to a senior US general.

• eBay fraud of no concern to Eastern Europe

  eBay is decrying the lack of interest in cybercrime by authorities in countries such as Romania, Russia, and China.

• Cyberattack caused multiple-city power failure

  The CIA has said that a cyberattack caused a power blackout in multiple cities in a country outside the US. Security training body the Sans Institute reported the CIA's disclosure on Friday.

• Chinese hackers attack Australian govt networks

  Chinese computer hackers have once again been accused of launching attacks on classified Australian government computer networks.

• Virtualisation a security threat?

  Experts at security company McAfee have predicted that virtualisation will be a major area of concern for security threats next year.

• 50 percent of DNS servers vulnerable

  Security around DNS servers is still a serious issue for network administrators, even though new servers such as BIND 9 are more secure, according to a new survey released this week.

• Attackers exploit dangerous PDF file vulnerability

  On Monday, Adobe patched vulnerabilities in versions 8.1 and earlier of its Acrobat and Acrobat Reader. If exploited, an attacker could launch malicious code on an affected system.

• Malicious software disguised as Skype Defender

  Skype is sounding the security alert, and users should take note before using the Internet calling service.

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