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A daily survey of the latest cybercrime news from around the world.
06-Aug-02 11:11:51 ET
Story Highlights:
"The government was monitoring a series of electronic attacks launched early Tuesday against United States Internet providers, hours after European authorities passed warnings to the FBI predicting the attacks..."
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"The impact from the attacks appeared limited, and there were no reports of outages or even delayed e-mails..."
05-Aug-02 15:08:33 ET
Story Highlights:
"It was so easy to steal. It was just a little white lie at first, a lie worth about $30. Then $50. Then $100. What’s the harm, thought 'Hue.' Buyers didn’t seem to even notice that the laptop computers he sold were much slower than advertised..."
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"Scamming Internet users is clearly child’s play — Hue was only 15, but he had already become an accomplished con artist..."
06-Aug-02 10:08:26 ET
Story Highlights:
"Five Israeli teenagers have been charged with creating and spreading the W32/Goner-A virus, which spread rapidly on the Internet after its release in December last year..."
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"The Ha'aretz newspaper reports that the five were charged at Haifa District Court with wilfully causing damage to computers belonging to companies and private individuals around the world, including NASA 
, through their involvement in unleashing the virus..."
05-Aug-02 12:30:58 ET
Story Highlights:
"A new technology could let a Trojan horse disguise itself as Internet Explorer and let hackers steal data from your PC by fooling firewalls into thinking it's a trusted Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) application..."
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"Security pros have been warning for two years that a Trojan horse bypassing firewall detection is the inevitable next step in hacking technology..."
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