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Lax security controls are allowing conmen to host fraudulent websites on servers run by government organisations and private sector firms. For example, Symantec has detected a number of phishing sites that have been hosted on government URLs over recent months. In June alone, fraudulent sites were identified on sites run by the …

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  1. Chris Miller

    "spamversied"?

    As Google puts it: Did you mean spamvertised?

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    the Ukraine?

    Is that the same sort of thing as the France and the Germany?

  3. Dillon Pyron

    Secure?

    Are you kidding me? I expect to hear the DHS is hosting a Jihadi website and the FBI is handling kiddie porn. Meanwhile, the Saudi government will just host hard-core. Spammers get their venture capital from criminals, who hire cracers (not hackers) for more money than they can make at home. So they're one, maybe two steps away from the security geeks.

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Re: the Ukraine?

    http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/ukraine

    "In the past Ukraine was frequently referred to as the Ukraine; however, since Ukraine declared independence in 1991, most newspapers and magazines have adopted the style of referring to Ukraine without the the, and this has become the more common styling."

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