Jakarta – Since mid 2007, the network reported that the World Bank Group’s computer at least six times attacked by dedemit virtual. This interference was initially tercium by the FBI are investigating a case of virtual crime in September 2007. Fox News quoted internal warnings that mention that the World Bank at least twice a suspected attack came from IP addresses that originate in China.

Also mentioned in the memo that in July there are at least five World Bank servers containing confidential information that intruded by dedemit maya.

Memo to recommend that the information on the servers is removed and re-saved to eliminate the possibility of a secret code, and update security protocols to prevent possible attacks in the future.

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Tags: Cyber Attack World Bank

Washington – reported cyber criminals make a random computer system of the world financial body, the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Attack occurs when the role of IMF votes needed in the very middle of the economic crisis is now global. As quoted from detikINET, invasive cracker makes computer systems at IMF forced off in a few days. However, doesn’t know whether there is important information that successfully stolen.

That evil attack is feared to disrupt the activities of IMF, together with the World Bank, expected to improve the economic situation of the global recession.

There is a cyber invasion shows a computer system that relied increasingly global financial institutions vulnerable penetrated. In fact a lot of sensitive information in the IMF computer network, such as the central bank balance sheet in the world.

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Tags: Cyber Attack on IMF, Cyber Criminal

Washington – China is aggressively developing facilities cyber war and is now in a position ready to disrupt, even crippling the United States military activity in the world. So the warning was delivered by a special commission in the U.S. Congress institutions. In a commission report US-China Economic and Security Review Commission that, stated that China is on the computer facilities to attack the government and the U.S. commercial sector.

It has been mentioned, the Chinese had attacked the U.S. computer system masif in 2002, given the code name Titan Rain. At that time, and quoted by detikINET, China successfully get about 20 Terabytes of data from the U.S. computer networks.

“With the capability of operating cyber of China at this time, they can use it to perform a variety of cyber attacks that can not be dropped by United States, may not even be detected,” the statement in the report.

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United States appeared to be breeding places for gathering spammers alias spreader spam (junk email). According to the observation Symantec Messaging & Web Security, most of the spam that comes from this big country. In Symantec’s monthly report, in October 2008 the U.S. penetration of spam from reaching 29 percent of all spam circulating on the internet. That number as well as placing the U.S. as a country which is the largest source of spam in the world.

In the second place position by Turkey. Countries that are in the border region is Europe and Asia are said by Symantec has at least as much as 8 percent in the spread of spam.

Russia further under the U.S. and Turkey. However, the ‘market’ of the Russian spam is not much different with Turkey, the state bears the red is 7 percent.

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Tags: Contributor of Spam, Spam Attacks

Copenhagen – More than 98 percent of Windows computers vulnerable to the cyber criminals because it contains at least 1 application that is not in the patch. In fact, nearly 50 percent of computers have 11 or more programs that affected the risk cyber attacks. That is quite surprising that the statistics cited security bureau based in Copenhagen, Secunia. Secunia revealed the data based on utility-based research through the Personal Software Inspector (PSI) that are installed in the consumer computer.

According to Thomas Kristensen, Secunia Chief Technology Officer, utility that can track the existence of applications that have not been in the patch. Secunia then randomly select the 20,000 machines that have been adopted as the PSI study.

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Tags: Cyber Attack, Virus Antivirus