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Georgia is gaining allies to resist online attacks, which it says are the work of Russian hackers. Global security experts gathered in Malaysia last month to help ramp up the world’s defenses against cyber-terrorism. The number of successful attacks on .au domain names has increased over the past 12 months, according to the latest Cyber Hack Update 2008 report from TippingPoint. 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. The Estonian government has approved an action plan to boost its cyber security following a barrage of hacking attacks it blamed on Russia. While it is unlikely we will ever abolish cybercrime, I do believe that we can make the internet a safer place. Protecting users from internet-borne threats falls on trusted websites, says Overstock's Sam Peterson. Dan Kaplan reports. Hackers are losing the battle against security professionals, Gartner analysts have claimed. A new identity theft bill is set to become US federal law, adding stiffer penalties and stricter definitions for identity and information theft crimes. Damon Patrick Toey has become the first person to be brought to justice in the hacking of TJX, which is one of the biggest cases of its kind. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) is warning internet users of spam emails claiming to come from internet hit men. Pop-diva Madonna is the highlight of a new round of malicious spam messages, security vendor Sophos has warned.
Will ICANN's domain name expansion affect internet security? Cyber criminals are actively exploiting yesterday’s shock passing of Australian actor Heath Ledger by manipulating search results related to the actor to lead to malicious sites, Trend Micro has warned. The Georgian government has accused Russia of launching an online attack against the country’s web infrastructure in conjunction with its occupation of South Ossetia. Microsoft launches Active Protection Programme and an Explotability Index. Security experts have developed a hybrid file type that looks like an image but can also run a Java applet surreptitiously in a browser.
A new response plan for threats to the national power grid is in the works.
The presidential candidates envision America's cybersecurity infrastructure. A DNS design flaw, which could have allowed remote attackers to silently hijack web sessions, prompted Tuesday's release of an unprecedented multivendor patch.