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SKorea and US forge deal to fight cyber attacks
May 04, 2009 |
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South Korea and the United States have agreed to cooperate in fighting cyber attacks against their defence networks from countries including China and North Korea, officials said Monday.
SKorea military networks under growing cyber attack
Jun 16, 2009 |
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South Korea's military computer networks are under ever-growing cyber attack with 95,000 cases reported daily on average, officials said Tuesday.
Dutch researchers develop self-learning security system for computer networks
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jun 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Cyber attacks on computer networks are becoming increasingly commonplace. To counter the threat, they are protected by so-called network intrusion detection systems. But these fail to identify some attacks, ...
Pentagon spends $100 million to fix cyber attacks
Apr 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The Pentagon spent more than $100 million in the last six months responding to and repairing damage from cyber attacks and other computer network problems, military leaders said Tuesday.
Cyber attacks continue at Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal
Aug 10, 2009 |
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Twitter, Facebook and LiveJournal said Monday they were continuing to fend off cyber attacks that last week derailed the popular Internet services.
Self-learning security system for computer networks
Jul 09, 2009 |
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Cyber attacks on computer networks are becoming increasingly commonplace. To counter the threat, they are protected by so-called network intrusion detection systems. But these fail to identify some attacks, or do not spot ...
Experts disagree on seriousness of attacks on government Web sites
Jul 09, 2009 |
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Government Web sites were operating normally on Wednesday, officials said, after a broad attack on public and private computer systems that targeted sites operated by the White House, the New York Stock Exchange and The Washington ...
How a denial-of-service attack works
Aug 06, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Some details about denial-of-service attacks, like the one Thursday against Twitter.
US, Russia in dispute over computer attacks: report
Jun 28, 2009 |
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Less than two weeks before President Barack Obama's visit to Moscow, the United States and Russia cannot agree how to counter the growing threat of cyberwar attacks that could wreak havoc on computer systems ...
Cyber crooks riding social-networking wave: report
Aug 17, 2009 |
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A hacking incident report released Monday warns there has been a steep rise in attacks at social-networking hotspots including wildly popular microblogging service Twitter.
Obama setting up better security for computers
May 29, 2009 |
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(AP) -- America has for too long failed to adequately protect the security of its computer networks, President Barack Obama said Friday, announcing he will name a new cyber czar to take on the job.
Dutch researchers crack Internet security of the future
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 31, 2008 |
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Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in The Netherlands have managed to crack the so-called McEliece encryption system. This system is a candidate for the security of Internet traffic in the age of the ...
SKorean police: Hackers extracted data in attacks
Jul 14, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Hackers extracted lists of files from computers that they contaminated with the virus that triggered cyberattacks last week in the United States and South Korea, police in Seoul said Tuesday.
Denial of service denial: New filtering system could protect networks from zombies
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 30, 2009 |
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A way to filter out denial of service attacks on computer networks, including cloud computing systems, could significantly improve security on government, commercial, and educational systems. Such a filter is reported in ...
Banner year for cybercrime
Dec 27, 2006 |
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This was a year for the record books for computer crime with 2007 likely even more dire, Wednesday's Washington Post reported.
