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the Ministry of Information and Communication in South Korea has reported that it has received almost 2,000 complaints regarding the Chernobyl or CIH virus. last year CIH infected almost 300,000 systems in the country.

ZD Net

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Gazprom, a huge state-run gas monopoly, was one of many targets hit by cyber criminals last year in Russia, officials have said. Acting with an employee at the company the criminals were able to bypass the company's security and gained access to the gas control systems. The report also registered 852 cases of computer crime in Russia in 1999, up twelve-fold from the year before. (This story sounds more like a convenient way to place blame on hackers over likely Russian mismanagement or corruption.)

Associated Press - via Nando Times

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The Group of Eight major industrialized nations will hold a conference in Paris next month about how governments and companies should interact when confronted with cybercrime. The May 15-17 conference will be attended by representatives of 150 major private firms alongside delegations from G-8 states Italy, France, Britain, Germany, Japan, Russia, Canada and the United States. The conference's aim was to study the challenges to security and consumer confidence posed by new information and communication technologies.

Associated Press - via San Jose Mercury News

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Carnegie Mellon University has created a research institute this month dedicated prevention rather than response. (Yeah!) The Carnegie Mellon Institute for Survivable Systems will work with both the public and private sector and will use resources and people from the CERT coordination center.

CNN

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Domain registrar Register.com Inc. Wednesday launched Domain Lock Down, a service that protects domain names from being hijacked. New service will be able to "locks" names at the registry level, which helps prevent unauthorized alterations to name server and registrar information and blocks deletions of a domain name for the length of the registration term.

Internet News