| Twitter virus strikes Monash: Twitter was hit Saturday by the StalkDaily virus. Twitter had a virus (or worm) whose main symptom is that your Twitter account sends out certain tweets. The virus could be contracted by visiting affected Twitter profile pages. Making a PBX 'botnet' out of Skype or Google Voice? Flaws in popular Internet-based telephony systems could be exploited to create a network of hacked phone accounts, somewhat like the botnets that have been wreaking havoc with PCs for the past few years. Cisco scammers coming out of the woodwork Nothing metes out justice like Eastertime. Just as one Cisco scammer is sentenced, another has pled guilty to the same misdeeds, according to MercuryNews.com. Cisco scamster gets 6 years Stephen Edward Miller, the Cisco SMARTnet scamster who pled guilty to money laundering and mail fraud last year, has been sentenced to 6-1/2 years in prison, according to news reports in Portland, OR. Miller will also have to pay restitution for the $3.7 million worth of Cisco equipment and parts obtained under the money laundering and mail fraud scheme. Imperva adds risk assessment tool to its database protection Imperva is adding risk assessment to its SecureSphere database-security platforms in an effort to make it simpler to protect the most sensitive corporate data. Conficker botnet could flood Web with spam Windows PCs infected with the Conficker worm have turned into junk mail-spewing robots capable of sending billions of spam messages a day, a security company warned today. Conficker Shows Its Colors, Installs Rogue Anti-virus We knew it would try to make a buck somehow, but until now Conficker hasn't done much beyond spread and update. That changed yeThursday, when the worm began installing a rogue antivirus app called SpywareProtect2009 on infected machines. Russian President warns of foreign threat to 'Net security Foreign investors in Internet companies pose a potential threat to national security, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev warned members of the United Russia political party at a meeting on Wednesday. Top Trends: Patch Management Find out how patch-management products work, and what they can do for you, in this Product Guide. April giveaways galore
Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet are giving away training courses from Global Knowledge, valued at $2,995 and $3,495, and have copies of three hot books up for grabs: CCVP CIPT2 Quick Reference by Anthony Sequeira, Microsoft Voice Unified Communications by Joe Schurman and Microsoft Office 2007 On Demand by Steve Johnson. Deadline for entries April 30. Network World on Twitter Get our tweets and stay plugged in to networking news. | 
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