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NEWS - December 28, 2005

by roddy32 Dec 28, 2005 5:26AM PST
China cracking down on cell phone fraud, spam
Reuters
Published on ZDNet News: December 28, 2005, 5:39 AM PT

In a bid to curb rampant spam and growing fraud conducted over mobile services, China will require all mobile phone subscribers to register using their real names next year, the official Xinhua news agency said.

The much-talked-about move is mainly aimed at users of prepaid cell phone accounts, which can be opened easily by anyone with cash and a handset. These accounts have no monthly fee, but instead are "charged up" using prepaid cards and used until the credit runs out.

The new rules, similar to those already introduced in countries such as Singapore, Switzerland, Thailand and Malaysia, will require China's 200 million users of prepaid service--more than half the nation's total 388 million subscribers--to register using their real names, according to Xinhua.

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Trojan delivers unwanted gift to Windows PCs
by roddy32 Dec 28, 2005 10:46AM PST

By Elinor Mills, CNET News.com
Published on ZDNet News: December 28, 2005, 4:04 PM PT

A new Trojan horse program was infecting PCs on Wednesday, exploiting a hole in Windows systems to sneak onto computers, then dropping adware or spyware or turning them into zombies, according to several Internet security companies.

The Trojan, dubbed Exploit-WMF (Windows Meta File), was rated a category 2 level risk, meaning it had the potential to continue to spread, said Dave Cole, director of security response at Symantec.

The exploit "is misusing a function in the WMF library in Windows," dropping onto the machine a downloader Trojan "that pulls down its big brother, a more sophisticated Trojan" from a server on the Internet, he said.

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Man pleads guilty to eBay Internet attack
by roddy32 Dec 28, 2005 10:52AM PST

Reuters
Published on ZDNet News: December 28, 2005, 6:24 PM PT

An Oregon man has pleaded guilty to using a computer worm to launch attacks against Internet auction site eBay, the U.S. attorney's office handling the case said on Wednesday.

Anthony Scott Clark, 21, pleaded guilty to intentionally damaging a protected computer, a crime with a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a fine of up to twice any losses incurred, according to the U.S. Attorney for the northern district of California.

In July and August 2003, Clark and accomplices infected about 20,000 computers with a worm, a type of malicious program that allowed them to direct the machines to visit eBay.com, overwhelming the popular Web site, the attorney's office said.

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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6011484.html?tag=zdnn.alert

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