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What really happened in Estonia's cyberwar?

One year ago, the Estonian government moved a war memorial honouring Russian-Estonians who died fighting the Nazis, a move that may have triggered what some believe is the first instance of a sustained, international cyberwar. Read more »

eBay fraud of no concern to Eastern Europe

eBay is decrying the lack of interest in cybercrime by authorities in countries such as Romania, Russia, and China. Read more »

Pillow talking bots latest Russian malware threat

Those entering online dating forums risk having more than their hearts stolen, especially if they're chatting to a malicious Russian bot. Read more »

Researcher: Kids, not Kremlin, attacking .ge

Initial information suggests that internet attacks on Georgian websites over the last two weeks are the work of kids, according to one researcher, while another says the intensity of these attacks is short-lived when compared with attacks in Estonia last year. Read more »

Georgia accuses Russia of co-ordinated cyberattack

The Georgian embassy in the UK has accused forces within Russia of launching a co-ordinated cyberattack against Georgian websites, to coincide with military operations in the breakaway region of South Ossetia. Read more »

Russia steals malware gold from China

Russia has passed China to become the largest generator of spyware and other malicious code, according to a report. Read more »

Lithuanian websites hacked by Russians?

Last weekend, several hundred Lithuanian websites were defaced with pro-Soviet and anti-Lithuanian slogans, according to The New York Times. Read more »

Infamous Russian malware gang disappears

An alleged Russian malware hosting gang has abruptly disappeared, according to security experts. Read more »

Escalating DoS attacks may 'shut down the Internet'

Denial-of-service attacks are growing faster than bandwidth is being added to the Internet, according to VeriSign, the company that administers the .com domain. Read more »

Georgian president suffers cyberattack

The website of the Georgian president was the subject of a distributed-denial-of-service attack over the weekend. Read more »

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Russian criminals prefer Australian banks

Russian cyber-crooks prefer targeting Australian banks because we have fewer brands relative to the population, which means social engineering attacks require less customisation, according to Kimberly Zenz, a specialist in criminal activity originating in the former Soviet Union. Read more »

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5 reasons restricting hacking is not like gun control

Nick Gibson [blogs:byteclub] -- Let's get it out of the way: Guns don't kill people, people with guns kill people. People with hacking tools can steal your personal data, shut down your system and deface your web site -- but is that any reason to ban them? Read more »

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  • Staff Crying, mooning and leaving

    In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

  • Brendon Chase Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5

    Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »

    -- posted by Brendon Chase

  • Renai LeMay BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continue

    Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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