Repeat of SKorea, US cyberattacks does no damage:

Repeat of SKorea, US cyberattacks does no damage: Hundreds of computers that helped cause a wave
of outages on U.S. and South Korean government websites last July launched new attacks on the same sites,
but no major interference was reported, police said Thursday. The computers were programmed to attack
every July 7, according to police, so this year's assault appeared to be a continuation of last year's, which began over the July 4 holiday weekend in the U.S. but reached South Korea on July 7. More than 460
computers infected with malicious computer codes assaulted 25 websites, including those of the White House
and South Korea's presidential Blue House, on Wednesday, said Jeong Seok-hwa, a police officer handling
investigations of the cyberattacks. … [T]he computers apparently attacked again this year because last year's
malware hadn't been removed, not because another assault was launched. Date: 8 July 2010; Source: more..

Scammers hack into senator's Yahoo account:

Scammers hack into senator's Yahoo account: Bob Dvorsky, a Democrat senator for the state of Iowa, is
the latest public figure to have had his email system broken into by cybercriminals. The politician would
probably not have realised that his Yahoo account had been broken into unless they had sent a scam email to
his friends and online contacts. The fraudulent email claimed that Senator Dvorsky was stranded in Scotland,
and needed to be wired money in order to return to his home. According to a report by KCRG TV News,…
hackers managed to get their paws on the senator's Yahoo password after he was sent a phishing email.
[Date: 8 July 2010; more..]