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• Internet security better but foul exploits grow, IBM says

  IBM said it found surprising improvements in Internet security such as a reduction in application security vulnerabilities, exploit code and spam, but it also noted that those improvements come with a price: Attackers have been forced to rethink their tactics.

• Cyberattackers hit Japan military info

  Information on military aircraft and nuclear power plants may have been stolen in a series of cyberattacks on Japanese defence contractor Mitsubishi Heavy, a report said on Monday.

• Opinion: Breadth First Hacking

  Recent publicity for online hacking groups such as Anonymous and Lulzsec has seemed to show that nobody is immune from attack on the Internet. Once targeted, it seems that these groups are capable of breaching security systems and retrieving data, including identity information, from the most secure systems.

• LulzSec, WikiLeaks, Murdoch: hacking's fourth wave

  Wikileaks, hacking incidents like those attributed to LulzSec, and even the UK's News of the World voicemail scandal represent a fourth stage in the evolution of cybercrime, according to Dr Paul Nielsen, director and chief executive officer of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburg.

• Hacker drone launches cyber attack

  US computer security specialists showed off a homemade drone aircraft capable of launching airborne cyber attacks, hijacking mobile phone calls, or even delivering a dirty bomb.

• Hacker group's cyber war on US police

  A hacker group says it's "defaced and destroyed" websites at scores of US police agencies in retaliation for the arrest of suspects accused of hacking into the CIA, British crime agency SOCA, and Sony.

• More need to stay cyber secure

  A leading computer security provider says the government has not done enough to keep major infrastructure safe from the threat of cyber attack.

• Global data breaches reach record high: Verizon

  Enterprises have been warned to stay vigilant of cyber attacks, with criminals going after quality data in online breaches, rather than quantity.

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  Sophos slams Facebook over security measures

  Security vendor Sophos has taken social networking giant Facebook to task over the rise of cyber crime on the site.

• ACT govt fought off 646k cyber attacks in FY10

  ACT government websites withstood more than 646,000 cyber attacks in the FY10 financial year, according to Chief Minister Jon Stanhope.

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  Australian Gamers often hit by DoS attacks

  Irate online gamers including those from the popular World of Warcraft game are taking revenge on rivals by launching cyber attacks to disconnect them, according to Internet Service Provider (ISP) Internode.

• How Wi-Fi attackers are poisoning Web browsers

  Public Wi-Fi networks such as those in coffee shops and airports present a bigger security threat than ever to computer users because attackers can intercede over wireless to "poison" users' browser caches in order to present fake Web pages or even steal data at a later time. That's  according to security researcher Mike Kershaw, developer of the Kismet wireless network detector and intrusion-detection system, who spoke at the Black Hat conference.

• With new attack released, Adobe to patch next week

  Adobe Systems' security response team is scrambling to fix a newly disclosed bug in its Illustrator software, even as it readies another security patch for next week.

• Former CEO charged with cyber attack on firm

  Khalid Shaikh, former CEO of YouSendIt, has been indicted by a grand jury on four counts of mail fraud after allegedly launching four denial-of-service (DOS) attacks against the company's servers, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

• Microsoft: Cyber-crooks exploiting unpatched IIS bug

  Microsoft says that cyber-criminals are starting to exploit an unpatched bug in its IIS server software that was made public earlier this week.