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		<title>CircleID: Cyberattack</title>
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		<description>Latest Cyberattack related postings on CircleID</description>
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		<dc:rights>Copyright 2008, unless where otherwise noted.</dc:rights>
		<dc:date>2008-12-04T12:22:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title>Hackers Penetrated Pentagon Computer Systems, Called Most Severe on US Military Network</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Computer hackers suspected of working from Russia successfully penetrated Pentagon computer systems in one of the most severe cyber attacks on US military networks, according to reports. The electronic attack was so serious that Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the joint chief of staff, briefed President George W Bush and Robert Gates, the defense secretary. "This one was significant, this one got our attention," said an official, speaking anonymously. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/hackers_penetrated_pentagon_computer_systems/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-11-30T10:43:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title>World Bank Removes CIO Following Recent Cyberattacks</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[According to recent reports, The World Bank has effectively removed a vice president who served as its chief information officer while struggling to deal with a <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,435681,00.html">series of embarrassing cyberattacks</a>. The World Bank Group's network, which had been raided repeatedly by outsiders for more than a year, is one of the largest repositories of sensitive data about the economies of every nation. Servers in the institution's highly restricted Treasury unit were deeply penetrated with spy software, and the invaders also had full access to the rest of the bank's network for nearly a month in June and July, sources say. At least six major breaches have been detected at the World Bank since the summer of 2007, with the most recent breach occurring just last month. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/world_bank_cyberattacks_removes_cio/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-11-27T07:34:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title>Criminals Regain Control of Srizbi Botnet, Spam Volume Rising</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Experts are that the spam volumes may spike significantly over the next few days now that one of the world's largest networks of compromised computers used for blasting out junk email has been brought back to life, reports Brian Krebs of the Washington Post. "The <em>Srizbi</em> botnet, a collection of more than half a million hacked PCs that were responsible for relaying approximately 40 percent of all spam sent worldwide, was knocked offline two weeks ago due to pressure from the computer security community." <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/criminals_regain_control_of_srizbi/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-11-26T12:58:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title>US Concerned Over Chinese Cyber Espionage</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[China is actively conducting cyber espionage as a warfare strategy and has targeted U.S. government and commercial computers, according to a new report from the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. "China's current cyber operations capability is so advanced, it can engage in forms of cyber warfare so sophisticated that the United States may be unable to counteract or even detect the efforts," according to the annual report recently delivered to Congress. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/chinese_cyber_espionage/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-11-25T07:29:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title>We Must Avoid Cyber Crisis Equivalent to Current Financial Crisis, Urge Experts</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Cybercrime is likely to wreak as much havoc as the credit crisis in the coming years if international regulation is not improved, some of the world's top crime experts said on Wednesday. Damage caused by cybercrime is estimated at $100 billion annually, said Kilian Strauss, of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/cyber_crisis_equivalent_to_financial_crisis/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-11-20T12:26:00-08:00</dc:date>
			<category>internet</category><category>cyberattack</category><category>security</category>
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			<title>Cybersecurity Improvement Needs Partnership Not Regulation, Says Industry Group</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The market-based, voluntary approach that the Bush administration has used to encourage companies to improve cybersecurity is not sufficient and the incoming Obama administration should form a cybersecurity social contract with industry based on economic incentives, according to a new report by Internet Security Alliance (ISAlliance). ISAlliance has released a report suggesting a cybersecurity social contract through which government would encourage and reward corporations by potentially working cybersecurity into procurement and loan processes, along with possible awards programs that could be used as marketing advantages. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/cybersecurity_improvement_partnership_not_regulation/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-11-19T12:43:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title>If Obama Gets His Way, All Americans Would Have Broadband Internet Access</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama's Internet-fueled campaign has transformed the way Americans choose a president. Now, the president-elect's administration plans to change the way Americans -- and government -- use technology. If Obama gets his way, all Americans would have broadband Internet access, whether they live in big cities or remote villages. Online life would be safer, with better defenses against cybercriminals. And there would be greater access to government, with online services to let anyone question members of the president's cabinet or track every dime of the U.S. budget. "I think it's not going to happen in the first 100 days, but I think a lot of this can happen in the first term," Ben Scott, policy director of Free Press, a media reform organization based in Washington, said. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/if_obama_gets_his_way_broadband_access/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-11-13T20:10:01-08:00</dc:date>
			<category>internet</category><category>broadband</category><category>cyberattack</category><category>security</category>
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			<title>Why DNS is Broken, in Plain English</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[At ICANN's meeting in Egypt last week, I had the opportunity to try and explain to various non-technical audiences why the Domain Name System (DNS) is vulnerable to attack, and why that is important, without needing a computer science degree to understand it. Here is the summary. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20081113_why_dns_broken_in_plain_english/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-11-13T19:26:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title>The Harsh Reality of Spam and Online Security&#8230; Should I Stay or Should I Go?</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Working in the anti-spam and online malware fight can be depressing or at best invoke multiple personality disorder. We all know things are bad on the net, but if you want a dose of stark reality, check out Brian Kreb's fantastic 'Security Fix' blog on the <em>Washington Post</em> site... Speaking to an old friend who asked me what I was doing these days, I recently likened the fight against this relentless onslaught to having one's pinky in a dyke, and there are days when I don't even think we have a dyke! <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20081113_reality_of_spam_online_security/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-11-13T14:13:00-08:00</dc:date>
			<category>internet</category><category>cyberattack</category><category>dns</category><category>internet_governance</category><category>privacy</category><category>security</category><category>spam</category>
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			<title>DDoS Attacks Getting More Powerful, ISPs Report Concern Over New Threats and Budget Pressures</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against ISPs and their customers have almost doubled over the past year, according to a new security report. Attacks on networks making them unavailable to intended users -- also known as distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks -- exceeded 40 gigabits in the last year according to Arbor Networks' annual survey of ISPs from North America, South America, Europe and Asia. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20081111_ddos_attacks_more_powerful_isp_report/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-11-11T09:26:01-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title>Defense Science Board Urges Obama to Take Immediate Cybersecurity Measures</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[According to a report by the Defense Science Board, the President-elect Barack Obama will inherit a cybersecurity infrastructure that is ill-prepared for advanced cyberattacks which will be of particular challenge for the new leaders... Reporting today on eWeek, Roy Mark writes: "The Bush administration has been widely criticized by security experts as de-emphasizing cyber-security and hamstringing the authority of officials in charge of government-wide cyber-security" said Roy Mark in a report eWeek." <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20081106_defense_science_board_obama_cybersecurity/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-11-06T16:29:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title>Cyberspace is Man&#45;Made and Its Laws Can Be Rewritten to Favor Defensive Forces, Says US Air Force</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Air Force Research Laboratory's "Integrated Cyber Defense" program, has recently announced a project request for proposals based on the belief that "the 'laws' of cyberspace can be rewritten, and therefore the domain can be modified at any level to favor defensive forces." The objective of the program, according to the announcement issued last month, is to "avoid threats entirely by obviating the effects of adversary actions, deterring attacks, and anticipating threats," which is partly based on the following philosophy offered by the Air Force... <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20081103_cyberspace_air_force_defense/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-11-03T13:28:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title>Government and Private Sector Partnering for Cyberspace Security</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Donald Kerr, principal deputy director of national intelligence, has proposed a radical new collaboration between government and the private sector in order to address "malicious activity in cyberspace [that] is a growing threat to everyone," according to a Washington Post report today. Kerr has offered some extensive solutions which include increasing government's involvement in developing technical products as well as... <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/government_private_sector_partnering_cyberspace/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-11-03T11:31:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title>UK&apos;s Utility Companies and Large Financial Firms Facing Major Cyber Espionage Attacks</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Industrial espionage probes are being waged on companies that provide UK's national infrastructure and on similar organizations across Europe, security experts have warned. Mark Oram, head of information security knowledge department at the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI), said the instances of political, economic and technical spying were more common than cyber-terrorism attacks. "We see frequent attacks on organizations for the purpose of intellectual property theft that we would not obviously classify as an attack on infrastructure," he said. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/uk_utility_companies_financial_firms_cyber/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-10-31T09:59:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title>ITU Criticized For Its Role in Cybersecurity Standardization</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[At EuroDIG, the first <a href="http://www.eurodig.org/">European Dialogue on Internet Governance</a>, the scientists and experts of the Council of Europe have sharply criticised the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) for acting behind closed doors in its initiatives towards cybersecurity standardization. <a href="</a>">Bertrand de la Chapelle</a>, godfather of the first EuroDIG on behalf of the French government, said EuroDIG should tell the ITU to allow all interest groups to participate in discussing new technology standards. The recent meeting in Strasbourg emphasized the idea of cooperation between governments, the industry and users as one of the central points to be presented at the UN <a href="http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/">Internet Governance Forum</a> in Hyderabad. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/itu_cybersecurity_standardization/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-10-27T09:08:00-08:00</dc:date>
			<category>internet</category><category>cyberattack</category><category>internet_governance</category><category>security</category>
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