CommunityDNS News Bits, March 30, 2009.
Busted! Conficker’s tell-tale heart uncovered
After a five month battle against the Conficker worm, researchers finally made the much needed breakthrough on how to easily identify the worm on various platforms.
The breakthrough was made last Friday with updates to various scanning programs being released today to identify and eradicate the worm from systems.
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BT network ‘vulnerable to Chinese attack’
BT’s core network technology provider, China’s Huawei, is believed to have close ties with the Chinese military, thus throwing suspicion into the network’s vulnerability of attack that could cripple the UK’s communications infrastructure.
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China rubbishes cyber-espionage claims
Could the Chinese by running a cyber espionage network in 103 different countries through 1,295 compromised computers found in foreign ministries and embassies?
The malware as discovered to infect the machines through .doc and .xcl files attached to e-mails. Some of the compromised systems were discovered in ministries of foreign affairs of Iran, Bangladesh, Latvia, Indonesia, Philippines, Brunei, Barbados and Bhutan. Compromised systems were also discovered in the embassies of India, South Korea, Indonesia, Romania, Cyprus, Malta, Thailand, Taiwan, Portugal, Germany and Pakistan.
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Report says online crime surging in recession
$264.4 million is the record loss due to Internet fraud in the U.S. in 2008. Attacks are generated mostly from the U.S., Canada, Britain, Nigeria and China
In 2007 the loss was $239.1 million, which is still a massive jump over the $18 million of losses in 2001.
The largest number of complaints have dealt with the non-delivery of promised merchandise, followed by auction fraud, credit card fraud and investment scams with U.S. scammers comprising 66% of the complaints followed by 11% for Britain, 7.5% for Nigeria, 3% for Canada with China following at 1.6%.
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Supreme Court Rejects Virginia Spam Case
Refusing to hear the case, the Virginia Supreme Court’s ruling on the state’s anti-spam law was upheld as being deemed unconstitutional as being “unconstitutionally overbroad”. Jeremy Jaynes was released, after serving six years, of a nine-year sentence.
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