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The attacks on Google and others late last year weren't as sophisticated as initially believed and appear to have cropped up last summer, according to a report to be released Tuesday by security firm Damballa.

Damballa is just the latest company to analyze the attacks and offer an opinion. McAfee dubbed the attacks "Operation Aurora" and said they were highly complex and advanced.

"While 'Aurora' was a very damaging attack that breached some of the most sophisticated networks in the world, it is a 'garden variety' botnet and can be traced back to July 2009, when the criminal operators first began testing," Damballa said in a release.

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New research shows scale of attacks was much wider than at first thought

Phil Muncaster

V3.co.uk, 28 Feb 2010

The cyber criminals who hacked into Google’s systems may have attacked over 100 other companies, according to new information from security consultancy Isec partners.

The Ministry of Post and Telecommunication wants to introduce a
mandatory IXP for Cambodia (replacing existing private sector IXP
arrangements), and openly says they want it for filtering and for
blocking "if necessary." The Minister of Information has a track record
in the past to have resisted censorship - he needs encouragement.

The government must take a more active role in securing the Internet, industry experts told Congress Tuesday, arguing that as businesses and governments rely more on cyberspace the prospect of a serious attack grows.

Applicants will have to verify their identities with regulators and have their photographs taken. A government ministry will review the requests.

If the west really wants to support the green movement it should shower the country in free satellite internet access

A SPLIT has emerged in Labor ranks over Communications Minister Stephen Conroy's filter plan to limit internet porn after a backbencher confirmed she would seek to amend the legislation.

BACKBENCH MPs on both sides of politics opposed to the government's internet filtering proposal are vigorously lobbying their colleagues, creating a potential roadblock to the plan backed by the Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy.

But we are deeply troubled by this conviction for another equally important reason. It attacks the very principles of freedom on which the Internet is built. Common sense dictates that only the person who films and uploads a video to a hosting platform could take the steps necessary to protect the privacy and obtain the consent of the people they are filming.

China has tightened controls on internet use, requiring anyone who wants to set up a website to meet regulators and produce ID documents.

researchers, who are presenting their findings at a mobile computing workshop this week in Maryland, demonstrated how such a software attack could cause a smart phone to eavesdrop on a meeting, track its owner’s travels, or rapidly drain its battery to render the phone useless. These actions could happen without the owner being aware of what happened or what caused them.

Polish Internet users have scored a major victory in their fight against a law that would have blocked certain Web sites deemed to have dangerous content. Under the weight of their online protests, Prime Minister Donald Tusk decided to abandon the proposed law, which was originally designed to block gambling sites.

The government decided to scrap the register of banned Web sites after talks between Tusk and nongovernmental organizations, according to a statement on the prime minister’s Web site Thursday.

South Korea has reportedly banned the use of social networking site, Twitter, during election time. The prohibition has not been taken well by some people who want the election law to be revised

China on Tuesday denied government links to cyber attacks against the search giant Google, saying such accusations were "irresponsible and calculating." "China resolutely opposes the groundless accusations from Google," China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said, referring to Google's statement last month that it might pull out of the Chinese market, citing it services had been hacked by sources originating in China.

France yesterday put in its bid for an unlikely prize, becoming the first western country to make even Australia look liberal when it comes to state powers of internet censorship. In the teeth of fierce opposition both inside and outside parliament, the National Assembly approved, by 312 votes to 214 against, a first reading of a bill on Internal Security – the quaintly titled “LOPPSI 2″.