21st March 2004 Archive

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• Did Register staffer mastermind ‘call-girl weblog’ conspiracy?

  Of course not

  The Register's very own San Francisco reporter Andrew Orlowski has become the latest and surely the most unlikely name to be associated with Belle de Jour. Bell de Jour purports to be the work of an anonymous London call-girl-cum-weblogger who recently bagged a five-figure book contract from Faber. Since then British newspapers …

  Media 21 Mar 2004, 15:18

• Phishing attacks ‘on the rise’

  Variations on a theme

  Despite a handful of successful criminal prosecutions and an increase in public awareness, February saw a marked increase in the number of new variations of the spam-borne swindle called "phishing". The Anti-Phishing Working Group charted 282 unique attacks last month, a 60 per cent increase above the 176 attacks spotting in …

  Security 21 Mar 2004, 21:31

• Witty attacks your firewall and destroys your data

  If you can read this, you're probably all right

  A new worm that, ironically, makes sport of Win-32 systems defended by BlackIce and RealSecure firewall products from Internet Security Systems (ISS) began circulating Saturday. The worm, dubbed 'witty,' is memory-resident only and propagates via UDP port 4000, and possibly others. While occupied with reproducing itself, it …

  Security 21 Mar 2004, 21:41

• Phatbot primed to steal your credit card details

  And launch DoS attacks

  A Trojan horse-type computer virus called Phatbot can steal credit card numbers and launch denial of service attacks on Web sites. The new virus made its debut on the Internet on Friday (18 March), clogging bandwidth, stealing personal data and initiating denial of service attacks. Phatbot is a variant of a Agobot, a big …

  Media 21 Mar 2004, 22:06