The Vietnamese government denies it’s involvement in the current cyberattacks used to intimidate opponents of a mining project in Vietnam. “The perpetrators may have political motivations and may have some allegiance to the government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam” said McAfee Chief Technical Officer George Kurtz. “The comments are groundless,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nguyen Phuong Nga said on Monday. [...]

Even though 2010 started with four botnets tackled via arrests or net access cutoffs, spammers survive. “So as far as impact on spam goes it has been minimal,” said Rik Ferguson, a senior security analyst at Trend Micro. Despite Waledac being taken down or that a large chunk of the Zeus botnet was amputated and that spanish investigators along with FBI worked to [...]