MayDay! MayDay! Ruskies reinvent cyber crime
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Not your father's botnet Researchers have unearthed two previously undetected botnets that exhibit sophisticated new capabilities that could significantly advance the dark art of cyber crime.â¦
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In every job that must be done there is an element of fun A former worker at a nanny agency has been charged with hacking offences.â¦
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Make what you will of the repeated waves of cyber attacks against Estonia, says CNET News.com's Charles Cooper. But the lesson will be copied by others.
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If you read the news, you'd think that most cyber criminals are lonely, maladjusted teenage hackers stealing credit card numbers from their windowless rooms. But the real damage is being done by organized syndicates, and they're playing for much higher stakes.
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Semi-organized people just as dangerous as botnets In late April, a Russian-speaking blogger upset with recent events in Estonia posted a series of dispatches calling on like-minded people to attack government servers in that country.â¦
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Also: Vigilante hackers target the wrong guy. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.
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Online criminals are thriving even in the face of new automated defenses.
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An innovative malware honeypot project backed by a leading consortium of IT security experts is preparing to re-launch its global sensor network after Jan. 1 in an effort to dupe more cyber-criminals into handing over information about their latest attack methods.
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As more people turn to Web applications for everyday tasks like e-mail, friendship and payments, cyber criminals are following them in search of bank account details and other valuable data, security researchers said.
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A new MyDoom worm released this week taunts the just-charged author of a rival malware line by including his mug shot. MyDoom.y -- but also called MyDoom.
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AS WE PREDICTED last week after a weekend free time, hackers have come up with a method of exploiting the latest hole in Microsoft Windows.
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Also: States stand up to cyberbullies. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Heavy spam squalls herald malware blitz Hackers have launched a malware blitz that poses as a 4 July greeting card.â¦
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Tales from the Underground Russian authorities have identified the authors of the notorious Pinch malware creation toolkit. Arrests are expected to follow.â¦
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Web villains post do-it-yourself phishing kits to help any amateur become an online con artist.
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Mug shots, misdeeds and home addresses went online this month at the Virginia Dangerous Dog Registry.
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The holidays are ripe for hackers, spammers and spies who go after personal information from holiday shoppers and write special programs to infect new computers when they first go online.