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July 8, 2009 11:56 AM PDT
Over the past few days government Web sites in the United States and South Korea have been under a denial-of-service attack, preventing visitors from accessing sites from the U.S. Treasury Department, Federal Trade Commission, as well as sites from several South Korean agencies including the Defense Ministry.
Some officials in South Korea have blamed North Korea, but Roger Thompson, chief research officer for Internet security firm AVG, says that it's more likely the work of run-of-the-mill hackers. In this eight-minute podcast, Thompson says he's far more worried about Chinese hackers.
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February 12, 2009 12:12 PM PST
Valentine's Day, like other holidays, is a time when malicious software writers and hackers like to trick people into clicking on links that could deliver a malicious payload to their PC. CBS News and CNET Technology Analyst Larry Magid talked about the threat with David Perry of security company Trend Micro. Perry isn't terribly worried about the threat but does say that web users need to be aware. He says that certain Valentine's Day search terms are more likely than others to lead to infected websites.
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