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Georgia is gaining allies to resist online attacks, which it says are the work of Russian hackers. 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. 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.. We shall fight them on the servers, we shall fight them in the browser, we
shall never reboot. The Russian government has been cleared of any direct involvement in cyber attacks on Georgia. Russian authorities accused of collusion with botnet owners. Some 300 Lithuanian web sites have been daubed with images of the Soviet red flag and are playing anti-Lithuanian songs, reports have it. Chinese hackers are waging war against the United States through the cyber realm, a senior defense official said last week. 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. Global security experts gathered in Malaysia last month to help ramp up the world’s defenses against cyber-terrorism. For all the hype about the relative security of the two most popular browsers, is Firefox really any more secure than Internet Explorer? For that matter, is it even possible, as a British company with a “zero-footprint” browser claims, to develop a truly secure browser? Large-scale data breaches across both the private and public sectors dominated the news throughout the year. Rob Buckley looks back. A laptop that had stored on it the personal information of more than 26.5 million veterans was reportedly stolen in May from the home of an employee of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. The event was not made public until nearly three weeks later. The massive data breach resulted in a shakeup at the department, including the resignation of a deputy assistant secretary and a class action lawsuit. The stolen data may also have included information on 1.1 million active-duty service members, 430,000 National Guardsmen and 645,000 members of the Reserves. Chinese hackers are limbering up for a cyberattack on Japanese websites on August 15. Korean and Japanese hacking groups have targeted each other again in an argument over the name of a stretch of water. The Taiwanese media has reported that Chinese hackers have infiltrated classified data of Taiwan’s President Chen Shui-Bian. With the mid-term elections come and gone, it’s time for the Bush Administration to re-focus its attention on protecting cyberspace.