Google Voice: a step-by-step primer on ditching your land line while keeping your number | ZDNet

Google Voice: a step-by-step primer on ditching your land line while keeping your number | ZDNet:

$45 and you can port your landline number to Google Voice - but you'll have to port it to a cell phone number as part if the process.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/government/google-voice-a-step-by-step-primer-on-ditching-your-land-line-while-keeping-your-number/10455?tag=content;siu-container

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Beyond Stuxnet: massively complex Flame malware ups ante for cyberwar - CSMonitor.com

Beyond Stuxnet: massively complex Flame malware ups ante for cyberwar - CSMonitor.com:
Very sophisticated - read what we know already here...

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Iran Confirms Attack by a Virus That Steals Data - NYTimes.com

Iran Confirms Attack by a Virus That Steals Data - NYTimes.com:
"...potentially more harmful than the 2010 Stuxnet virus, which destroyed several centrifuges used for Iran's nuclear enrichment program. In contrast to Stuxnet, the newly identified virus is designed not to do damage but to collect information secretly from a wide variety of sources."

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Can Hackers Destroy The Internet? - Forbes:

Can Hackers Destroy The Internet? - Forbes:

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Massive botnet 'indestructible,' say researchers - Computerworld

Massive botnet 'indestructible,' say researchers - Computerworld

[This may open up new markets for "secure platform" computing based on Macintosh OSX and Chrome OS]

A new and improved botnet that has infected more than four million PCs is "practically indestructible," security researchers say.

"TDL-4," the name for both the bot Trojan that infects machines and the ensuing collection of compromised computers, is "the most sophisticated threat today," said Kaspersky Labs researcher Sergey Golovanov in adetailed analysis Monday.

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TDL-4's makers use the botnet to plant additional malware on PCs, rent it out to others for that purpose and for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, and to conduct spam and phishing campaigns. Kaspersky said TDL-4 has installed nearly 30 different malicious programs on the PCs it controls.

What a cyberwar with China might look like

Former U.S. diplomat describes hypothetical scenario

Egypt: Internet down, police counterterror unit up - Yahoo! Finance

Egypt: Internet down, police counterterror unit up - Yahoo! Finance: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"
Clearly the Internet is becoming an essential tool of conflict, strife, and war.