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InternetNews August 4, 2009	Cyber War Could Cause Global Collateral Damage The effects of an all-out cyber war would be impossible to control and could be felt worldwide, experts say.
InternetNews August 6, 2009	Did Koobface Cause Twitter, Facebook Outages? A new variant of the widespread Internet worm Koobface made its debut today - just as Twitter and Facebook were hit by denial-of-service attacks.
BusinessWeek August 13, 2009 Joel Schectman	Computer Hacking Made Easy Botnet attacks like the one that took down Twitter are becoming so easy and cheap, almost anyone can do it.
InternetNews May 15, 2009 Alex Goldman	Facebook Attacks Threaten All Web Sites Why would users want your user name and password? Perhaps because it could give them access to your money and your e-mail.
InternetNews August 10, 2009	Cyberattacks' Aftershocks Hit the Web Twitter and Facebook have since bounced back from the the spam and the denial-of-service storm that hit them late last week, but the aftereffects continue to be felt across the Internet.
InternetNews May 18, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner	Estonia Under Russian Cyber Attack? Data by a security research firm clearly shows that a full-scale assault is under way, but the attackers' identity and location is still uncertain.
InternetNews June 8, 2009 Alex Goldman	Symantec Says Phishers Have New Tools Automated toolkits are making it easier to attack services such as Facebook, Twitter and financial services brands.
InternetNews February 11, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Spammers Hijack Facebook Group of 1.5 Million Facebook site is taken over by get-rich-quick and other familiar spam.
Fast Company Michael Grothaus	For First Time, Cyber Attack Causes Widespread Electricity Blackout The first known cyber attack to cause widespread public blackouts has occurred in Ukraine, it is believed.
InternetNews August 20, 2009	Facebook Hit by Cross-Site Request Forgery Attack As Facebook's popularity continues to rise, it is becoming an increasingly attractive target for security researchers and vulnerability disclosures.
InternetNews May 21, 2009 Alex Goldman	Phishers Strike Facebook in Latest Assault Facebook is fighting back against the most recent attack.
InternetNews February 25, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Online Trust Takes a Hit in Gmail Chat Phishing Security experts are warning that a phishing attack on Google's Gmail's chat feature not only poses a danger to users, but could be a harbinger of things to come.
InternetNews February 7, 2007 Ed Sutherland	Internet 'Didn't Crumble' Under DNS Attacks Internet users barely felt a ripple yesterday when hackers launched a concerted attack on several key Domain Name System servers.
PC Magazine August 7, 2009 Lance Ulanoff	Twitter's Down and It's All Your Fault The micro-blogging service's difficulties are troubling. Why it's suffering through a DDoS attack is even more upsetting.
InternetNews February 23, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Malware Authors Exploit Facebook App Is a bogus application making the rounds on Facebook just a failed marketing ploy? Or something more dangerous?
InternetNews October 1, 2009	Facebook Hit With New Spyware Scam Hackers bypassed the social networking site's captchas to create new accounts at will.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	Facebook Tipped Off The U.S. Government To Iranian Hackers State Department officials were tipped off by Facebook's new notifications when Iranian hackers compromised their Facebook accounts.
InternetNews August 14, 2009	Twitter Used as Botnet Control As bot herders learn to exploit legitimate sites, researchers warn that IT managers will need to monitor social media closely.
InternetNews January 28, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Online Trust: A Thing of the Past? Malware attacks are turning the Web upside down, and complicating the efforts of security vendors and users to cope with the threats.
InternetNews June 11, 2009 Alex Goldman	Malware Keeps Creeping Onto Mac OS X The Apple Mac is still seeing far fewer attacks than Windows experiences, but researchers say there's a disturbing trend at work.
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan	Twitter Now Alerts Users To State-Sponsored Attacks More than 20 users received a notice saying their Twitter accounts were among "a small group of accounts that may have been targeted by state-sponsored actors."
National Defense October 2007 Breanne Wagner	Cyber Attacks in Estonia Serve as Wake-Up Call The attacks compromised both public and private websites and sent a wave of panic through a country that is known for being especially "wired."
InternetNews December 2, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Facebook Gets a Spanking over Data Loss Facebook's attempt to get users to reset their e-mail preferences has blown the lid off an an embarrassing loss of user data inside the social network.
InternetNews June 30, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	Net Ushering in Era of War Without Borders Expert sees a new face of cyber warfare forcing 'some of the hardest national security decisions you'll have to make.'
InternetNews July 14, 2009	Inside Korea's Cyber Attack What really happened in South Korea? Attackers used the country's high-speed network against itself.
National Defense July 2007 Breanne Wagner	Experts Downplay Imminent Threat of Cyberterrorism U.S. officials are worried about the threat of a terrorist attack against civilian and government computer systems, but experts say any attack by cyber terrorists is likely to be non-debilitating worms and viruses.
Wired November 2006 Scott Berinato	Attack of the Bots The latest threat to the Net: autonomous software programs that combine forces to perpetrate mayhem, fraud, and espionage on a global scale. How one company fought the new Internet mafia - and lost.
InternetNews February 25, 2010	Intel Confirms Details of Cyber Attack In regulatory filing, Intel outlines "sometimes successful" attacks that infiltrated the company's systems around the same time as the massive attack on Google and other companies.
InternetNews April 30, 2009 Michelle Megna	Facebook Fights Second Phishing Attack Facebook battles attackers seeking users' login information.
InternetNews October 27, 2010	Does the U.S. Need an Internet 'Kill Switch'? A majority of U.S. consumers surveyed said the government should have the authority to shut down parts of the Internet if necessary to head off a cyber attack.
Fast Company David Lumb	Watch Your Back, Facebook: Twitter's Testing Video Autoplay Too Don't be startled by the cacophony suddenly emanating from your Twitter feed: The company started testing video autoplay yesterday, according to Advertising Age
InternetNews June 16, 2009 Alex Goldman	Could Twitter Top Google? Twitter can deliver more traffic and better traffic than any search engine, at least according to backer and venture capitalist Fred Wilson.
The Motley Fool July 13, 2009 Rich Smith	Welcome! You've Got Hackers! Someone threw a cyber war this week. It's great to know that the government is spending billions hardening the IT system against more competent attackers, but what we really need here is a solution to the real problem: Identifying who the attackers are.
InternetNews October 29, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Facebook Worm Redux Taps Google Sites Once again, social networking site Facebook has been hit by the Koobface worm, which has been used to attack it several times since July.
InternetNews June 3, 2009 Alex Goldman	Scareware Arrives on Twitter in Latest Attack As new Web 2.0 threats proliferate, business IT departments struggle with basic tasks such as patch management.
InternetNews February 9, 2010	McAfee Finds Spike In Malware From China A new study by security software vendor McAfee finds a growing number of cyber attacks originating in China and predicts even more malware scams will target fans of popular social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.
InternetNews September 15, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Hackers Hit BusinessWeek With Malware The BusinessWeek.com site was hit by a SQL injection attack and connects users to a sleeper site.
InternetNews December 18, 2009	Hackers Knock Twitter Offline, Briefly Group calling itself "Iranian Cyber Army" takes over popular microblogging service.
InternetNews April 27, 2011	Russia Leads in Internet Attack Traffic New report from Akamai names Russia as the source of 10 percent of global attack traffic, but is it all really coming from Russia?
Bank Technology News July 2008 Rebecca Sausner	Could the U.S. Be the Next Estonia? Gadi Evron, former Israeli Government Internet Security Operations Manager, went to Estonia during the crippling DDOS attacks last May. Here he talks about whether the U.S. is vulnerable to such an attack, and the role banks and home computers play in protecting critical infrastructure.
InternetNews January 6, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Fake Celeb Profiles in Spam Attacks Want to see "more" of your favorite actor or pop star? Bad idea.
InternetNews April 8, 2009 Alex Goldman	U.S. Electricity Grid Compromised The threat is real but, unfortunately, not new. What is new, say reports, is actual evidence of espionage.
InternetNews March 28, 2005 Tim Gray	Alliance Formed to Finger Hackers The Fingerprint Sharing Alliance, an initiative comprised of global communications service providers, attempts to decrease the number of Internet attacks.
Bank Technology News April 2007 Rebecca Sausner	The New Red Menace Russian and eastern European hackers get all the glory these days, but their efforts to disrupt American financial services are a nuisance when compared to the nation-state threat that China's cyber army, and its rogue hackers, may pose.
Wired August 23, 2007 John Robb	When Bots Attack If you want to bring down a country's information infrastructure and you don't want anyone to know who did it, the weapon of choice is a distributed denial of service attack.
CRM June 2011 Donna Fluss	Use Social Media Proactively Leveraging sites like Facebook and Twitter is critical
InternetNews February 17, 2009 Sean Gallagher	Social Networks a Magnet for Malware Just like the crooks robbed the banks because that's where the money is, malware will go where the people are.
InternetNews December 5, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Latest Facebook Attack Stems from Previous One Businesses with Facebook links must watch out.