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The cyber criminals behind the ongoing blackhat search engine optimization attacks, have re-introduced an old social engineering tactic – the use of fake and malware friendly search engines.

And your web surfing can become truly miserable once you have become malware infested from these cyber thugs…

Now, most recently its the Russian cyber assault on Kyrgyzstan, or as of 1993 – The Kyrgyz Republic, that passed virtually unnoticed in western media preceded by just weeks the Kyrgyzstan parliament’s decision this week to boot the United States from a vital air base at Manas. This has far reaching affect could create strategic chaos in the region for the United States.

For all the fears of sophisticated digital intrusions preoccupying many computer security professionals, President Obama’s leading candidates for “cyber czar” also are focusing on an all-too-human …

Former White House cybersecurity official Paul B. Kurtz, in his first public remarks since becoming an advisor to President Obama’s transition team following the election, describes his biggest worry: A “cyber Katrina” in which fragmented bureaucracies and companies fail to share critical information and coordinate responses to cyber intruders attempting to disrupt power grids, financial markets, or any number of now-plausible scenarios involving a Web shutdown.

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