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Twitter briefly knocked offline by hackers (again)

Twitter was once again hit by a DDoS attack Tuesday evening. While the attack was not nearly as strong as experienced on August 6th, the site was unavailable for roughly 30 minutes.

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Twitter users targeted by Koobface again

Twitter continues to be fertile ground for the Koobface worm. Having been a target once before Twitter is once again being hit by the scammers. Unsuspecting users click on a URL provided in a tweet. Once infected Koobface works to gather credit card details and other sensitive information.

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Websense yanks censorware from Yemen

Having won the contract for providing Internet filtering for Yemen, Websense has stopped supplying updates as Yemen’s filtering policies are against the corporate policies of Websense. Websense refuses to supply filtering updates to any governments or ISPs subject to a government-mandated censorship scheme.

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Malaysia to Scrap Internet Filter Plan

With the goal of doubling broadband usage to 50% of its 27 million population by the end of 2010, the government of Malaysia was looking for ways of policing sedition, fraud and child pornography. The government had issued a tender to study the gateway filters implemented in other countries and determine their suitability within the Malaysian environment. Met with heavy criticism from opposition politicians and industry organizations, the government has canceled the tender.

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Kosovo Editor: Islamist Hackers Block Web Site

Covering a US-based trial regarding a Kosovar of Albanian descent accused of plotting terrorist activity against Jordan, Pakistan, Israel and Kosovo, the Express newspaper’s website was taken offline for 10 hours. An Islamic group is suspected for the attack as the hackers left the following message, “anti-Islamic newspaper to stop ridiculing Muslims”. Kosovo’s majority Albanians are mostly Muslim.

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Campaign Monitor reels from hack and spam attack

An Australian e-mail marketing and application developer was the victim of a hacking attack. The hackers broke into the servers and utilized existing distribution lists of customers as well as uploading their own to initiate spam using the services of Campaign Monitor. Reasons behind the attack are still unclear, but could this mark another way for spammers to spew spam without having to build or rent a BotNet?

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