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  • Hackers attack White House

    It was revealed last week that the presidential campaigns of Barack Obama and John McCain were hacked in recent months. Now, a report has surfaced that the White House has suffered multiple attacks in recent months as well.

  • Storm worm email claims US attacked Iran

    Security vendor Websense says the infamous 'Storm' botnet and trojan combination has been sending out false emails claiming the US has invaded Iran, including links to provocative videos.

  • US wants its own botnet for preemptive strikes

    The US Air Force is talking openly about forming botnets to launch preemptive attacks in cyberspace.

  • Democratic convention gets wired

    It will take more than a whoppingly huge stadium to host tens of thousands of party insiders, journalists, and bloggers who began arriving in Denver this weekend for the US Democratic convention.

  • Security experts lift lid on Chinese hack attacks

    Security experts have revealed details about a group of Chinese hackers who are suspected of launching intelligence-gathering attacks against the US government.

  • US leads the world in cyber attacks: Symantec

    The US, South Korea and China lead the world when it comes to online aggression, according to the bi-annual Symantec 2003 Internet Security Threat Report.

  • US Judge gives death sentence to Wikileaks

    A US federal judge in California has pulled the plug on Wikileaks.org, a Web site that specialises in posting leaked documents often provided by whistleblowers.

  • Europe keeps US from top of spammers list

    European spam networks have pumped out more unsolicited mail than the US for the third month in a row, according to a recent study.

  • Tech execs predict major Internet attack

    Almost half of information technology professionals believe there will be a major Internet attack on U.S. businesses in the next year. And worse, they believe companies are unprepared.

  • AU music industry body attacks ISPs over copyright stance

    The general manager of the music industry's piracy investigations (MIPI) unit, Michael Speck, has accused Internet service providers of trying to evade copyright liability in an address to the Senate Select Committee on the Free Trade Agreement between Australia and the US (AUSFTA) last week.

  • Experts urge US to prepare for more cyber-attacks

    US government and private-sector computer networks remain highly vulnerable to Internet-based attacks that will likely increase in the near future, experts said on Wednesday.

  • Web acts as hub for info on attacks

    Moments after airplanes separately crashed into both towers of the World Trade Centre, and then later the Pentagon, Web sites for the major news outlets were swamped by an overflow of traffic.

  • NSA plays 'war games' to teach network security

    The National Security Agency may be known for its stealthy eavesdropping techniques, but it's going public with advice for how to train a new generation to defend against computer threats.

  • US-CERT to unveil global worm-naming plan

    Zotob.E, Tpbot-A, Rbot.CBQ and IRCbot.worm: all names given to a single worm that wreaked havoc in Windows 2000 systems last month. Among the plethora of identifiers, perhaps the most useful -- CME-540 -- didn't make an impact.

  • US reaches Net detente with UN

    The Bush administration and its critics at a United Nations summit in Tunisia have inked a broad agreement on global Internet management that will preclude any dramatic showdown this week.

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