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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.

A vulnerability in a Web server contributed to attacks on some 300 Web sites in Lithuania last week, according to a computer security expert.

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.

Google has thrown its weight behind a fledgling security reporting group for the open-source community.

May was not a good month for geeks in Estonia.

The Department of Justice and FBI Wednesday said ongoing investigations have identified more than 1 million botnet crime victims.

Australia needs to increase the funding and expand initiatives to protect critical infrastructure if it is to avoid a cyber war similar to the one that has struck Estonia for the past three weeks, according to a Deakin University professor.

A spree of denial-of-service (DOS) attacks against Web sites in Estonia appears to be subsiding, as the government calls for greater response mechanisms to cyber attacks within the European Union.

After years of writing viruses and worms for operating systems and software running on Internet servers, hackers found some new areas to target in 2005, according to an influential report on security trends published on Tuesday.

Servers belonging to the open source Debian Project, which makes a version of the Linux operating system, were hacked last week, according to statements posted by project organizers on the group's Web page and to a European CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) Web site on Friday.

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.