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A look at two of the signing technologies PayPal plans to use to improve sent email authentication, which would allow ISPs to drop each email that isn't properly verified. The Russian government has been cleared of any direct involvement in cyber attacks on Georgia. The Storm worm is showing no signs of letting up in its Valentine's Day assault.. The Web is a pretty nasty place, according to reverse engineer and privacy advocate Mike Perry -- and he should know. China has been accused of sponsoring cyber-terrorism at a conference organised by the UK Home Office. The days of visiting a trusted website and expecting it to be safe are done and dusted. A security researcher involved in defending against last year's Web attacks on Estonia has shared his account of the crisis, and is offering advice on how to prevent similar assaults in the future.. An aggressive, non-stop campaign by China to penetrate key government and industry databases in the United States already has succeeded and the United States urgently needs to monitor all internet traffic to critical government and private-sector networks “to find the enemy within,” SANS Institute Director of Research Alan Paller told SCMagazineUS.com. Just days after reports of the possible demise of Storm, the worm has again set off security alarm bells. The websites of both Democratic presidential candidates have been hit by cross-site scripting (XSS) exploits. Thousands of chief executives in the United States were targeted Monday by a new round of phishing emails that claim to contain a subpoena ordering recipients to testify in court. Researchers on Friday continued to monitor a widespred IFRAME attack that exploits visitors to legitimate websites by installing an information-stealing trojan on their machines. A security firm has identified over 10,000 web pages rigged by cyber-criminals to hijack the PCs of unsuspecting surfers.. Malware writers behind the Storm worm have launched a new spam campaign designed to bring more users into its extensive botnet.. After a brief hiatus, new variants have appeared in the wild of Trojan.Mebroot, a rogue rootkit discovered in December attacking the Windows Master Boot Record (MBR), Symantec has warned. The Cold War may be over, but the global battle over information security is heating up, as U.S. intelligence experts struggle to fend off relentless cyber attacks emanating from China and Russia on critical databases. The notorious Storm worm botnet, which has mounted phishing attacks on major banks and spawned several waves of holiday-themed messages in recent weeks, is generating spam that directs recipients to bogus medical sites, Websense has warned. A Romanian-based criminal group is behind a new trojan-laced, socially engineered email run that tries to trick recipients into believing their employer committed payroll reporting fraud, security researchers said. The arrival of the iPhone could signal the beginning of the end for consumer choice. Now that the marketing blitz and customer hype about the Apple iPhone are reverting back to more realistic levels there comes some not entirely unexpected news... A targeted assault of phishing emails opened the door for hackers to glean the sensitive information of up to 12,000 visitors to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, officials said Thursday.