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Internet infrastructure vendors are working on patches for a set of security flaws that could help hackers knock servers offline with very little effort.

Only 59.1 percent of people use up-to-date, fully patched Web browsers, putting the remainder at risk from growing threats from diligent hackers, according to a new study published by researchers in Switzerland.

A server problem at the US National Security Agency has knocked the secretive intelligence agency off the Internet.

While CNN recently faced distributed denial-of-service attacks from Chinese hackers angry about the television network's coverage of a recent Chinese crackdown in Tibet, Chinese security officials remain worried hackers will strike while the Olympic Games are being held in Beijing.

The effort to control what's called e-waste could lead to a national "e-fee," a recycling charge that would be paid just like a sales tax on laptop PCs, computer monitors, televisions and some other electronic devices.

There is very little good news in the 2003 Australian Computer Crime and Security Survey released today, which shows a rise in attacks and that the impact on business is more costly and damaging.

The Philippines' National Computer Centre (NCC) is making headway in promoting the use of open source technologies in government agencies, despite the lack of a high-level policy to support such a direction.

The Advanced Science and Technology Institute, an attached agency of the Phillipines Department of Science and Technology, is set to come out with a package of Linux productivity applications that can be used by government agencies.

Hackers embarrassed the European Commission this week by identifying two security holes in SaferInternet.org, a Commission-sponsored Web site promoting a safer Internet.

As part of an effort to raise the level of online security in the European Union, the European Commission said Wednesday it has begun work on a computer-hacking law.