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US Government Websites Hit During DDoS Attack Websites belonging to numerous U.S. and South Korean government agencies, as well as some other large commercial ones, have been under attack for the past several days by computers infected with a new piece of malware. The widespread DDoS assault resulted in slow responses from the targeted websites and even downtime... 8 July 2009 07:14 GMT Waledac Alert - Don't Try to Spy on Your Lover Security researchers warn of a new spam campaign triggered by the Waledac computer worm. The e-mails claim to be promoting a program that is able to spy on other people's SMS messages, which is, in fact, an installer for the worm. Waledac is viewed by the security professionals as the successor of the infamous ... 17 April 2009 04:10 GMT Botnet Tool to Support Israel's Offensive Israel supporters respond to the cyber-attacks launched by Islamic hackers through DDoS. A group of students have developed an application that allows Israel sympathizers to use their computer resources and Internet bandwith in order to knock Palestinian websites offline. The online group calling themselves “H... 10 January 2009 05:20 GMT